Aminata Bockarie, a female painter, has on Monday March 8, 2021 displayed her artworks for public viewing at the auditorium of the Ballanta Academy of Music and Performing Arts. Bockarie aims to motivate and inspire women and girls in the Sierra Leone through her work. She pleaded to the Government of Sierra Leone to empower women and girls in Arts, saying “whatever men can do, I believe women could do...Read More
Sierra Leone’s President Dr Julius Maada Bio has recounted his leadership interventions in the areas of women Employment and Empowerment, reproductive health, and Social cohesion. Employment and Empowerment President Bio said during a Virtual Engagement of “Women in Leadership,” in commemoration of International Women’s Day in Freetown on March 11, 2021, that “Our country has its own sets of rigid stereotypes and cultural strictures that have either kept women out...Read More
The Kabala Resident High Court Judge presiding over cases at the Special High Court Criminal Session holden at Mongo Bendugu, Justice Abdul Rahman Mansaray (J) has sentenced Alusine Kombor Marrah for sexual penetration and its related offences contrary to law. The accused Alusine Kombor Marrah was brought before the Court to answer to three count charges of Sexual Abuse by Person in Trust, contrary to Section 25 (i) (a) of...Read More
_MLHCP, PR007, Tuesday, March 9, 2021:-_ The Minister of Lands, Housing and Country Planning, Dr. Turad Senesie has officially unveiled and met with members of a Lands Complaints Committee. At an orientation ceremony in the Conference Room of the Ministry on Tuesday March 9 2021, the Committee members were congratulated and appreciated for taking up the responsibility to look into land disputes that occurred between April 2018 and January 2021...Read More
Newly sworn in Judge of the International Criminal Court (ICC); Justice Miatta Maria Samba has disclosed that “I feel very proud and elated to be one of the judges of the first permanent Criminal Court. I am particularly happy to put Sierra Leone on the map.” Speaking to Sierra Leone’s Information Attachè to the Embassy in Brussels after being sworn in at the ICC at the Hague, Netherlands, Justice Miatta...Read More
