The Chairman of the Parliamentary Oversight Committee on Water Resources, Hon. Lahai Marrah has called on the government of Sierra Leone and the Ministry of Finance to provide sufficient funds for the Sierra Leone Water Company (SALWACO) to carry on their activities. Hon. Marah made this pronouncement while on oversight visit at the Gelehun Water Treatment...Read More
The National Social Security and Insurance Trust (NASSIT) has on Friday December 11, 2020, recognised Bollore Transport and Logistics, a subsidiary of Freetown Terminal, for the timely payment of its staff social security contributions to the Trust. The company received the compliant award “for fully complying with the provisions of the NASSIT Act No. 5 of...Read More
Millennium Challenge Coordinating Unit (MCCU) in partnership with the Guma Valley Water Company (GVWC), Adam Smith International (ASI) and the Ministry of Water Resources have on Tuesday December 15, 2020 concluded the successful implementation of the Threshold Program, at the Atlantic Lumley Hotel in Freetown. The US$ 44.4 million Threshold Program was a four-year partnership...Read More
Freetown – December 9 (KMN) The local NGO FOCUS 1000 has trained 45 community activists as “champions” of gender equality, as part of its effort to complement government’s efforts in the fight against Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV). The training was conducted on Wednesday, December 9, 2020, as part of a one-day forum commemorating the...Read More
The European Union Delegation in Sierra Leone has on Wednesday, December 17, 2020, signed a three years € 3.7 million project grant with local authorities of the Port Loko and Kenema City Councils and Western Rural Area and Kailahun District Council. The grant is to strengthen local governance, decentralization and sustainable urban development through territorial approach...Read More
