By Saio Marrah
The 2022 government budget has recorded an increase in the wages and salaries of government workers from Le3.75 in 2021 to Le3.90 trillion in 2022, an increase that represents 7 .7 percent of the GDP.
Call for responsible journalism in Sierra Leone
By Saio Marrah
The President of Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ), Ahmed Sahid Nasralla, has called on journalists to practice their profession with responsibility while practicing their trade.
He made this statement on Tuesday 23rd November, 2021 while commenting on the signing of Global Pledge on Media Freedom, by President Julius Maada Bio. He said in as much as journalists now have the freedom they want, they also have the corresponding responsibility in their profession considering repeal of the Criminal Libel Law.
Sierra Leone frees suspected sex offender for absence of case file
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
Justice John Bosco Allieu has acquitted and discharged a man named Patrick Pearce alias ‘Pastor’ of Sexual Penetration charge.
Pearce was freed at the High Court in Freetown after the Prosecution failed to tender the Charge Statement and the Voluntary Caution Statement (VCS) of the accused, in court.
The Prosecution said the man on the 19th May 2017 in Freetown engaged in an act of sexual penetration with a 12-year-old child.
Stakeholders discuss data protection law
By Nasratu Kargbo
Various stakeholders from civil society, the political and professional institutions have deliberated on the proposed data protection with calls that government creates an agency to police the affairs of that law.
Labourer gets 10 years for manslaughter
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
Justice John Bosco Allieu has sentenced a 43-year-old labourer, Augustine Sannoh to 10 years imprisonment for the unlawful killing of Foday Bangura at Pepper Wharf, Tombo Village in the Western Area Rural District .
The State Prosecutor led in a total of five witnesses who testified against the man.
Desmond Conteh, a Police investigator attached to the Tombo Police Station said that he was at work when a certain Hassan brought Sannoh on allegations that he has killed someone at Pepper Wharf, Tombo Village.
Sierra Leone removes import duty on liquefied petroleum gas
By Saio Marrah
The government of Sierra Leone has decided to remove duty cost on imported liquefied petroleum gas, a disclosure that was made by Minister of Finance, Dr. Dennis Vandi during his presentation in the House of Parliament, of the country’s new budget for 2022, on Friday 19 November this year.
The move is likely to see a reduction in the price of the liquefied product that would attract more users of cooking gas. Also this could contribute in discouraging the use of charcoal for cooking, thereby reducing deforestation.
Seven fire outbreaks in Sierra Leone capital in one week -says NDMA
By Mohamed Foday Conteh
The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) has in a press release issued on Friday 19th November, said that they have noticed ‘sporadic fire outbreaks’ within the Freetown municipality recently.
It noted that between November 15th and 19th alone, they recorded seven fire incidents reported that left at least one dead and properties worth millions of Leones destroyed.
