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By Prince J Musa in Kenema

The District Emergency Operations Center in Kenema has banned people from transporting dead bodies.

Officials say henceforth all corpses must be buried where the death occur. The move comes amidst concerns that transportation of corpses is fueling the transmission of COVID-19 in the district.

By Francis H. Murray

Former Social Welfare Minister, Dr. Sylvia Blyden was remanded in the custody of the Correctional Services last Friday when she made her first appearance before Magistrate Hannah Bonnie in Freetown at the start of preliminary investigations into a 10-count charge including seditious and defamatory libel, false publication, and conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.

By Francis H. Murray

Nineteen people arrested over the recent unrest in the fishing village of Tombo in the Waterloo Rural District are due back in court this morning after they were remanded in custody by Magistrate Hannah Bonnie following their first appearance on Friday last week on a five-count charge including conspiracy to commit an offence, malicious damage, setting fire to a public building and conspiracy to commit grievous bodily harm.

By Francis H. Murray

Magistrate Hannah Bonnie last week admitted the spouse of the former defence minister Alfred Pallo Conteh to bail on a Le 200 million bond or two Sierra Leonean sureties resident in Freetown, with one owing property valued at not less than Le 100 million.

By Francis H. Murray

Ten men charged with murder have made a brief appearance before Magistrate Hannah Bonnie in Freetown.  

The accused: Alpha Yayah Kanu, Abdulai Barrie, Foday Sannoh, Gbessay Kamara, John Desmond Koroma, James Sesay, Mohamed Daboh, Amadu Wurie Barrie, Mohamed Karim and Abass Kamara, are facing preliminary investigations for the alleged murder of one Mohamed Kallon.

Prosecutors say all ten on Sunday 5 April at Jeff Town No. 2 River, conspired with other persons unknown, to murder Mohamed Kallon.

By Umaru Fofana

The authorities in Sierra Leone have ordered a COVID-19 retest on 85 people who were deported from Kuwait on Friday.

67 of them tested positive for the coronavirus on Sunday 24 May, prompting concerns from Freetown and Kuwait City.

“We have collected two samples from each of all the 85 arrivals, and two laboratories will carry out the retest”, says Brigadier (Rtd) Kellie Conteh who is the head of the country’s Covid19 response and defence minister.

By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay

An anonymous person has donated 3,000 pieces of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) to the Sierra Leone Government as part of its campaign against the Coronavirus pandemic.

The donor is a client of Lawyer Rowland Wright, who presented the materials - full isolation gowns – to officials of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation.

The presentation was done on Thursday at the Central Medical Stores in Freetown.