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By Politico Staff Writer

The Sierra Leone Road Safety Authority (SLRSA) has introduced a new form of vehicle number plate. The Authority on Monday officially launched the new number plate at its Kissy road, Freetown headquarters. The upgraded features on the plate, according to Adisa Dosunmu of the Authority’s Management Information System, would help eliminate fake ones, and possibility of their transfer from one vehicle to another. 

By Newman Anthony Levey In Bo

As part of their commitment to national development, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has renovated a community clinic at Messina Section in Bo, southern Sierra Leone.

The renovation exercise, according to officials, cost Two Hundred Million Leones (Le200, 000,000) and it came at the request of the community people.

By Kemo Cham

Sierra Leone has got a lot to celebrate when it comes to its response to health emergency, according to a public health expert working with the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevent.

Dr. Tushar Singh, who is the Country Head of the CDC, said Sierra Leone’s handling of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is a far cry from its experience with the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic, noting that back then not only did the country lack the infrastructure but also the human resource.

By Kemo Cham

Sierra Leone is still struggling to meet its target in terms of testing for Covid-19, latest government data on the pandemic reveals.

Despite a gradual increase in tests conducted in the last five weeks, weekly testing has reduced in the last week, figures in the latest weekly Situation Report on the pandemic - Sitreps 37 - released on Monday, show. It shows that laboratory testing for Covid-19 for last week (Epi week 36), reduced by 12.1% compared to Week 35. 

By Francis H Murray

Magistrate Hannah Bonnie in Freetown has sent the Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Persons with Disability (NCPD), Saa Lamin Kortequee on remand at the Correctional Service for failing to pay arrears of over Le 63million to the National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT) on behalf employees of the Commission.

By Prince J. Musa in Kenema

Kailahun District has got its second commercial bank, after the inauguration of a branch by the Rokel Commercial Bank.

The bank was inaugurated on Saturday, September 5 by Finance Minister Jacob Jusu Saffa, who told the audience at the ceremony held in the premises of the newly renovated one storey building that as a government they were inclined to pay great attention to the financial sector by empowering banks to expand on their services all over the country and thereby creating access to finance to the masses.

By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay

A corruption perception survey commissioned by the Center for Accountability and the Rule of Law (CARL) has shown that 49% of people in Sierra Leone believe that corruption has increased in the country relative to the last three years.

The report, the result of a study that was completed in February as part of a collaboration involving other local and international NGOs, became the subject of public discussion this week.

CARL said the data for the study was gathered in 2019.