News

Some of you will notice in this edition that we have republished some of our stories and articles from our Monday 18 May edition.

We had to do this after realizing that only a few copies of that edition reached our target audience.

Feedback from the market and our general readership indicated that some unscrupulous individual or group of individuals went out of their way to ensure that the edition didn’t reach the public for reasons best known to them.

By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay and Francis H. Murray

Residents of Kissy Dockyard are on edge after the manufacturing company, G. Shankerdas and Sons Limited was hit by what is suspected to be a wave of Covid-19 cases.

At least two people are said to have fallen ill, one of whom is reported to have dead. As a consequence, the company has been forced to halt its operations and its entire premise has been quarantined.

Efforts to get officials of either the company or the Covid-19 Response Team to confirm the exact situation proved futile.

By Francis H. Murray

Sierra Leone’s youngest telecommunications company, QCell, is again at the receiving end of a very fierce competition, after its two main rivals shut their doors on it, leaving its customers unable to make cross network calls.

QCell raised the alarm on Friday after Orange and Africell, the two leading operators in the country, blocked all calls to and from its network.

By Prince J Musa in Kenema     

Police in Kenema have arrested ten people in connection with a dispute over a farm land.

Serious violence erupted on Friday between residents of Mano Kotihun and Vaahun villages in the Nongowa chiefdom.

The Police spokesman in the district, Sergeant Brima James Musa, told Politico that they had made arrests following the incidents that led to destruction of plants and riotous behavior.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

The Anti-Corruption Commission has warned public officials against failing to declare their assets to the commission.

In a statement from the commission, it said officials who fail to declare their assets beyond the extended date will face penalties. The initial date for the submission of the asset declaration form was March 31^st, but according to the commission, a good number of public officials have defaulted against the process.

By Mohamed Jaward Nyallay

The humanitarian organization, St George Foundation (SGF), has launched a new project called Ose Tok, which is geared towards promoting cohesion.

The project was launched on Friday 15^th May to coincide with the World Family Day celebrations.

World Family Day is an annual celebration that marks the importance of family in society. May 15^th was declared as family day in 1994. Celebrations across the world have been low key this year due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

By Prince J Musa in Kenema

The health NGO FOCUS 1000 has donated materials to help aid COVID-19 sensitization in the Kenema district. The donated items include five megaphones, USB drives containing health messages adopted along religious teachings and face masks. They package was handed to the District Health Management Team.

The donation was done through the Kombra Media Network, the community engagement arm of the NGO.