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By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

The Minister of Information and Communications, Mohamed Rahman Swarray has urged filmmakers to go digital as he said it will reduce piracy and attract funds from other big screen television outlets.

He made this call at the National film policy consultative meeting held at the Sierra Leone Standards Bureau Conference hall at Bai Bureh Road on the 24^th of August 2022.

By Politico Staff Writer

A heavy duty truck crashed into the fence of the China Friendship House at Brookfields on Thursday 25^th August causing significant damage to motorbike taxis and rickshaw-like motorized transport, locally known as kekehs parked in the area. Eye witnesses told Politico that apparently the brakes of the truck, carrying hundreds of bags of cement, failed as the vehicle made its way down King Herman road.

By Nasratu Kargbo          

In a bid to ensure the dignity and safety of residents displaced as a result of investment in their lands, the new Customary Land Rights Act of 2022 mandates a five-year guarantee for all structures built in the new settlement. This is to ensure the quality of the structures.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

The Town Chief of Henai Village in Malen Chiefdom, Chief Emurana Koroma,and four others are still on remand at the Pujehun Correctional Centre in Southern Sierra Leone after failing to meet the bail conditions set by Magistrate Joseph Toby.

The magistrate had granted bail to the chief and four other accused persons, with each to produce two sureties, one of whom should have at least fifty thousand new Leones (fifty million old Leones) in their bank account.

By Alpha Abu

National Council for Civic Education and Development (NaCCED) together with various partner institutions have met at the Freetown City Council Auditorium to review the openness and accessibility of government policies under the Open Government Partnership (OGP).

The discussants deliberated on the government’s National Action Plan level 3 and the pending fourth level of the process.

By Abass Jalloh

After appearing for the fifth time, Principal Magistrate, Mark Ngegba, of Pademba Road Court No. 1 in Freetown has refused bail to the seven accused persons who were arrested and charged for committing Public Order Offences during the parliamentary by-election at Sambaia Bendugu in Tonkolili District in June this year.

By Saio Marrah.

The Informal Workers Organization (IWO), an advocacy group has in an advocacy Paper urged the government to place premium on the country’s informal workforce.

Reading out the document to newsmen at their Aberdeen office in Freetown, the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of IWO, Chelcy Alma Heroe said that ensuring value for the informal economy or workforce should be done by strengthening and providing sufficient subvention to the Ministry of Labour and Social Security as it has been done for the Ministry of Education.