Special Court Hands Over Detention Facility to Government of Sierra Leone

Press Release: Freetown, Sierra Leone, 16 November 2009 - Special Court for Sierra Leone - Outreach and Public Affairs Office.

The Special Court for Sierra Leone today handed over its detention facility to the Sierra Leone Prison Service. The ceremony, which was opened by Special Court President Justice Jon Kamanda, marks a significant milestone in the completion of the Court’s mandate in Freetown. DETAILS

Sierra Leone can set example for other countries, says UN envoy Chairman of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party – John Oponjo Benjamin (JOB) who is on a weeklong visit to the UK on Tuesday met Mike Gapes - Chair of UK Select Foreign Affairs Committee responsible for monitoring the policy, administration and expenditure of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and its associated public bodies, including the British Council and the BBC World Service. DETAILS

SENIOR PUBLIC OFFICERS ARRAIGNED BEFORE THE HIGH COURT

8^th June 2009.

Two public officers were on Monday 8^th June 2009, arraigned before the High Court in Freetown for misappropriation of public property contrary to section 12(1) of the Anti-Corruption Act 2000 as amended. The Anti-Corruption Commission arraigned Osman Thamu Bangura, Store Keeper in the Minister of Education and Joe Lappia, former Deputy Director in the Ministry of Education, Bo, Southern Region. Click for DETAILS

Paradise regained in Sierra Leone

Civil war tore the nation apart for 11 years, but the beautiful beaches that were once the setting for the Bounty chocolate bar advertisements are now back on the tourist map. Katrina Manson reports Freetown. Its mountain-backed empty beaches are so pristine it was once the setting for Bounty bar's "Taste of Paradise" adverts, but many people may be more familiar with Sierra Leone as the setting for a brutal civil war. Click for DETAILS

Sir Milton Margai's 1961 Independence Day Message

Men, women and children of Sierra Leone, I greet you all on this historic day, and I rejoice with you. Sierra Leone today becomes a unified and independent nation to take her place as an equal partner in the Commonwealth of Nations and as equal entity in the world at large. For this we rejoice, and may your own rejoicing wherever you are be really full of happiness.Click for DETAILS

How The Old APC ruined Sierra Leone

Simply put, the Old APC Governments ruined Sierra Leone by spreading mass poverty throughout the country via massive unemployment and by adulterating the national currency, the Leone. The New APC, however, has pledged to be completely different. In order to understand the damage to our country under the management of the Old APC governments, Bintumani.com presents a summary of the more egregious they did, especially under President Momoh. Click For More...

SIERRA LEONE'S HIGH COST OF LIVING ACCELERATES

Under the dull and unimaginative leadership of President Koroma of the New APC, the harsh living conditions of the people of Sierra Leone continue to deteriorate further, making day-to-day existence in our country an extremely nightmarish survival endeavor. Click For More...

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MAYOR BRIMA KARGBO TO FORM PARTNERSHIPS TO DEVELOP KENEMA

By John Ernest Leigh, who recently returned from Kenema All too often in Sierra Leone, the entire focus of the general public and that of the international community is on the doings of the central government. Naturally, this is so because that’s where the glamour, the power and the money are. But one thing I was determined to do during my recent three-week stay in Sierra Leone was to make the time to evaluate whatever progress might be taking place in improving governance at the local government level. Click for details

Why Do Our Leaders Keep Kissing Up To Qaddaffi?

As if this harsh economic climate of high cost of living and widespread deprivation was not enough to make many people unhappy, the New APC government of President Ernest Koroma thoughtlessly invited President Mu'ammar Qaddafi of Libya to make a rather long visit to our sad country barely a few days before the 10th anniversary of the catastrophic invasion of Freetown, one of the saddest anniversary in the modern history of our country. Click for more ...

United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Sierra Leone Announces Several Youth Employment Projects For 11,000 Unemployed Young People. UNDP’S YES (Youth Employment Scheme) Plans For Our Youths

In a press release published yesterday morning in Freetown, the United Nations Development Program in Sierra Leone announced an ambitious plan to train 11,000 unemployed youths across the country so they may someday soon have the requisite skills and/or capital to assure them of gainful employment in the near future. Click for more...