The Legal Aid Board has on Monday November 9, 2020, paid out Le 80 million owed to 21 former casual workers of GTIEX Company in salary arrears and benefits. This was achieved after a long drawn battle in the industrial court before settling for an out of court settlement and a then consent judgment in which...Read More
Sierra Leone’s Chief Justice, His Lordship Ambassador Desmond Babatunde Edwards has strongly warned Judicial staff against corruption and other related offences which he said will undermine sustainable reforms and growth of the institution. Hon. Justice Edwards was speaking on Tuesday November 10, 2020, at Court No. 1, Law Courts building in Freetown on the occasion of...Read More
Acting on behalf of the Honourable Minister of Finance, Jacob Jusu Saffa, the Iron Lady of the Finance Ministry who also happens to be the Deputy Minister of Finance, Honourable Patricia N. Laverley, on Friday November 6, 2020 delivered what many described as a memorable speech. In her opening statement at the new Freetown City Council...Read More
Sierra Leone has again, in three consecutive years, increased its score in the ‘Control of Corruption’ indicator in the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) scorecard, moving from 79% in the 2019 Scorecard, to 81% in 2020, thereby adding 2 percentage points upwards. According to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC), between 2017 and 2020, Sierra Leone has made a...Read More
Groovy Colours, a band of the Ballanta Academy of Music and the Performing Arts, has recently won First Prize in an International Music Talent Video Competition. The competition is part of the Chinese Bridge Global Music Programme hosted by the Centre for Language Education and Cooperation and the Central Conservatory of Music of the People’s Republic...Read More
