By Ruth Yeabu Sesay
The Centre for Accountability and Rule of Law (CARL) has reacted to the Supreme Court ruling on the Proportional Representation System.
In a statement issued on 31 January 2023 in the case that was brought by two members of the opposition All People’s Congress (APC), CARL cited complaints and arguments that the PR system ‘’undermines democracy because it vests excessive power in political parties and deprives independent candidates from participating in the process”.
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
President Julius Maada Bio has signed a massive $ 311million (three hundred and eleven million) dollar electricity project for the procurement of 132 MW of solar PV across Sierra Leone, Liberia, Togo and Chad for regional integration. This will see the conversion of sunlight into electricity.
The signing ceremony took place at the Radisson Blu main conference hall in Freetown yesterday evening.
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
Sierra Leone has risen five places this year in Transparency International’s Global Corruption Ranking – from 115 in 2021 – to 110, out of 180 countries surveyed in the 2022 Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (TI-CPI).
This was disclosed in a press release by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) of Sierra Leone dated 31st January, 2023.
By Nasratu Kargbo
Members of Parliament have discussed issues bordering on medical ethics and standards, especially how medical practitioners treat their patients.
Constituency 032 MP Mark Mahmoud Kalokoh on the 31st January 2023 during the debate on the Sierra Leone Nursing and Midwifery Council Act 2022 explained that he had visited hospitals and witnessed how nurses treat their patients with cruelty.
He stressed nurses sit in their offices browsing the internet or reading magazines whilst pregnant women are suffering.
By Saio Marrah
With support from Government of Sierra Leone and Plan International Canada, 57,500 pupils in 200 schools in Western Area Rural District, have been added to the School Feeding programme under the Free Quality Education Package.
This is according to the Deputy Minister(2) of Basic and Senior Secondary Education, Mamusu Konneh Massaquoi, during the launch of the feeding initiative at the Rural Education Committee Primary School, in Russel Village, on Monday 30th January 2023.
By Ruth Yeabu Sesay
The Minister of Local Government Tamba Laminan has interacted with studentsof the Mass Communication Department of Fourah Bay College (FBC) now Faculty of Information and Communication Studies.
The visit was to inform students about the work of the ministry and some of the achievements made and what they as students should expect from their various local councils.
By Chernor Alimamy Kamara
The parents of the late Namisa Fatmata Kamara have pleaded for justice for their daughter whose body was discovered buried in a shallow grave in a compound at Sumaila town in Freetown.
The body of the 22-year-old IPAM student was discovered on 9 August 2022, eight days after she had disappeared, and up to now nobody has been charged.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
