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News from February 2010

Ernest Bai Koroma in Kailahun

Those who follow this column regularly may recall that there are a few things about which I like to boast without any attempt at false modesty. The first is that I like to describe it as it is rather than make any attempt to lace up my accounts with fine words and phrases just to [...]

4 Sierra Leonean Port workers end management course in Belgium

Four senior workers of the Sierra Leone Port Authority have successfully completed a port management course at the Antwerp Port Training Centre in Belgium.
The four, Sarrah K. Sesay (Divisional Manager Media Marketing), Eustace Carrol-Garrick (Operations Manager), Joseph Davies (Personnel Manager) and Ishmael Kanu (Director of Planning and Development) were full of praise for the Authority’s [...]

Kailahun, no better time like this

Kailahun is a politically strategic area that is always needed by the powers-that-be, no need denying this point. One may not be happy that at one point, political tolerance was not in Kailahun; a case in point being the Segbwema/Ernest attack, but this is a district that is always needed when it comes to voting [...]

That Our Bias Justice System

It seems, if not obvious that our justice system is partial and selective in the dispensation of proper justice to the people of Sierra Leone. It could be vividly remembered by Sierra Leoneans that when cocaine plane unlawfully accessed our National Airport last year, many people were implicated for having hands in the cocaine deal. [...]

ACC hits at Health Ministry and VPs office

News leaking from the country’s Anti Corruption Office reveals that top officials of the Ministry of Health and Sanitation, as well as the Minister of State, representing the office of the Vice President were called to a meeting by the Anti-Corruption Commission on 2nd February 2010 to discuss the way forward in the Health Sector [...]

Rapid Reforms at Pharmacy Board

Sierra Leone’s foremost agency for the protection of the public health of the nation-Pharmacy Board of Sierra Leone (PBSL) Sierra Express has learnt has met swift reforms to ensuring among other things that it works become effective and the nation’s health is preserved.
Whilst the Board was able to make the record of drastically reducing the [...]

One more Candidate for SLPP Leadership

As the leadership race for the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) gains momentum, a very young and dynamic member, Reverend Joseph Gaima Lukulay Moiba is reported to have entered the race.
According to some SLPP members, he has a clean and impressive political background with vast experience in peace making in Sierra Leone during and after [...]

Eddie Turay Opens ‘Surgery’ In London

Sierra Leone’s new High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, His Excellency Edward Mohamed Turay, has said he will establish what he referred to as a ‘surgery’ to address concerns and problems of Sierra Leoneans in the United Kingdom.
Turay made this statement at a well attended gathering where he addressed Sierra Leoneans for the first time [...]

The Enduring Uniqueness in Star Beer

Many of us who had interest in the recent series of attacks on the long and venerated character of one of Sierra Leones finest and locally brewed products-Star Beer, perplexity and confoundedness overtook us due to the alarmist and hysterical approach that was instituted to ensuring that the long earned good-name of the product is [...]

Nelson Mandela celebrates 20 years of freedom

Nelson Mandela has celebrated the 20th anniversary of his release from prison with a special dinner, inviting ex-wife Winnie and one of his former jailers.
Mr Mandela, who became South Africa’s first black president, was freed on 11 February 1990 after 27 years in jail, served mostly on Robben Island.
Mr Mandela has said he developed a [...]

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