A cross section of the striking workers
Police have arrested three striking workers of the Sierra Leone Bottling Company (formerly Cold Storage) as a standoff continues between them.
Floods displace 2,000 in Pujehun
By Mohamed T Massaquoi
Flooding has left over 2,000 people displaced in the southern Sierra Leone district of Pujehun, a report by the District Disaster Assessment Team reveals. They include 750 women, 937 children and 622 men.
It notes that 378 households were affected, leaving millions of leones worth of property damaged.
The affected chiefdoms were Kapak, Barri, Mano Sakrim, Sorogbeima, YKK, Kpanga Krim and Kpanga Kabondeh.
Pujehun census officer under fire over missing computer
By Mohamed T Massaquoi
A civil society activist in Pujehun has called for investigation of the district census officer over a missing computer.
The missing laptop computer is said to contain information on the ongoing 2015 National Population and Housing Census.
District Census Officer Sheku Soko Tarawally admitted that a computer he used as part of his work had gone missing from his office, during interviews conducted for applicants for the positions of enumerators, field officers and supervisors.
ACC prosecutes telecoms “fraudster”
The Anti Corruption Commission says it has commenced prosecuting a suspect over allegation he defrauded a foreign investor.
British telecommunications investor, Dominic Anselm Joseph Beary, allegedly parted with some US$800, 000, transferred to the accused, Mohamed Osman Sesay (alias assassin), who claimed to be a local agent helping him secure an international gateway licence.
Fambul Tok trains peace mediators
By Politico writer
Peace is only achievable through individual efforts and accepting each other, John Caulker, Executive Director of Fambul Tok, has told a group of community mediators.
Fambul Tok is a local Non-Governmental Organisation which uses community engagement in securing peaceful co-existence. It does so by training people to serve as peace ambassadors.
Yumkella ‘not yet’ SLPP member
By Joseph Lamin Kamara
Members of the national executive of the main opposition party are planning to issue out a public statement warning Dr Kandeh Kolleh Yumkella from talking in any media forum about the party whose presidential ticket for the next election he wants to contest for.
Timbo's top priority as President
By Kemo Cham
Alpha Timbo will have building institutions and capacitating Sierra Leoneans to man them as his top must priorities, the presidential aspirant of the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) has said.
He said well functioning institutions were relevant to nation building and that those who managed them were also crucial, hence the need for human capacity development.
Timbo was speaking as he presented his plan for the nation and party as campaign for the flag bearership contest for the SLPP hits up.
