Bala Amarasekaran, Director, Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary, Bathurst village in the Western area Rural District, has said in an interview that he is optimistic that the famous chimp Sanctuary will benefit from the recent electricity supply at Bathurst village. The Programme Manager was speaking from his sanctuary office on Thursday September 3,2020, when visited by this medium to ascertain the possibility of his sanctuary home benefitting from government’s electricity facility provided...Read More
The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) has on Friday September 4, 2020 warned the business community and the general public to beware of Impersonators. “Certain unscrupulous people have been approaching unsuspecting business houses and well-placed individuals soliciting financial support on behalf of the Association and its President,” the National Secretary General of SLAJ, Mohamed Asmieu Bah said in a statement on Friday. SLAJ (and its President) completely dissociates...Read More
After two months of training on enhancing policy development through research and capacity building, the Ministry of Finance has on Friday 4th September 2020 certified thirty economists from the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, Statistics Sierra Leone, Bank of Sierra Leone, and Parliament Budgetary Office. According to the Director of Research and Delivery in the Ministry of Finance Dr. Yakama Jones, the project is being funded...Read More
The deputy Program Manager of the National Malaria Control Program (NMCP), Ministry of Health and Sanitation, Dr. Alhaji Sayni Turay, has said that Malaria kills people in the country almost on a daily basis. He made this comment during the second meeting of the Malaria Media Coalition which was held on Tuesday September 1, 2020, at the Catco International Hotel in Freetown. The meeting was well attended by stakeholders and...Read More
The Ministry of Information and Communications in partnership with the National Telecommunications Commission (NATCOM) has engaged stakeholders in the Telecoms sector on the proposed National Electronics Communications Bill 2020 at the J&E Resort in Bo. In attendance at the event which took place on Friday 4th and Saturday 5th September 2020, were Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and a host of other personalities...Read More
