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August 2013

Whether it is a music concert, fashion show, reggae celebrity soccer tournament or other entertainment ventures, New York based Irie Jam Media Group has a reputation for its lavish productions.  Friday night’s press conference and

One of the elders of the opposition Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP), and one time Trade and Industries Minister, Dr. Sama Banya, has confessed that backbiting, betrayals, obscene languages and constant police intervention appears to

Parrot has been following the transactions between the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) boss and some companies. The erudite professor does not believe some of the allegations some companies have been making against the EPA boss,

After losing the Sierra Leone Peoples Party (SLPP) flag bearer contest in 2011, Reverend Dr. Joseph Gaima Lukulay Moiba, Ph.D. (Cand, UK) submerged, but he has now re-emerged with his political theory which states that

Following the discovery of massive malpractices in Zircon sand mining in especially Shenge, Tisana and Mobureh in Moyamba District where the West African Zircon Mining Company was involved in rampant illicit mining, buying, and exporting

Socfin Agricultural Company situated in the Malen Chiefdom, Pujehun District, US$122 million investment which began operations in April 2011, makes it one of the largest agricultural investments in Sierra Leone.   (Photo: General Manager of Socfin

Latest reports reaching this press have indicated that the firebrand Minster of Local Government and Rural Development, Hon. Finda Diana Konomanyi, got married on Saturday, August 17th this year in her home town in Kono

One vice plaguing this nation is the placing of square pegs in round holes, which means putting the wrong people in the right positions. This vice has been contributing immensely to the underperformance of certain

The Resident Minister, East, Mr. William Juana Smith, has said that the good governance programme, Monologue, was misled by the street caller who recently rang and alleged that he, the Minister,   has four solar light

The Vimetco Bauxite Mining Company appears to be embroiled in a protracted power struggle between the Romanians and the South Africans. Inside sources say the company has now changed seven General Managers in two years and

All field staff of the on going Demographic Health Survey (DHS) have been withdrawn and grounded owing to piles of discrepancies in the figures collected so far. It would be recalled that this medium blew

Following the Bank’s response to the Cholera Epidemic last year, at Marbella and Old Wharf communities, over 100 staff of Standard Chartered Bank Sierra Leone, last Saturday 17th August 2013 volunteered at the Congo Town

Sierra Leone’s deputy Information and Communications Minister and Co- Government Spokesman Hon. Theo Nicol has described President Ernest Bai Koroma as a highly principled Sierra Leonean with very strong democratic values- which  have restrained him

The Technical Assistance Facility (TAF) of the African Agriculture Fund (AAF) is pleased to announce a grant of €280,000 to Center Piece Industries Limited (Center Piece) for the implementation of the TAF Smallholder Oil Palm

The Bondo Secret Society is one of the customary and traditional heritages of the current generation of Sierra Leoneans. The Bondo Secret Society has a very long history, and the interesting side of it is that