By: Tommy Sidikie On October 8, 2024, the Port Loko District Council took significant steps to enhance community development by providing essential operational tools to 28 local communities in the northwest district. The presentation ceremony took place at the Port Loko District Council compound. The equipment distributed includes wheelbarrows, hoes, cutlasses, shovels, rakes, pickaxes, and…
Author: Alhaji Imam Alusine Khairaba Mansaray The pain! It cuts deep. A wound like none before. Yet familiar, For I’ve known pain. They think I’m blind, Deaf to their whispers, Blind to their steps. But I see, I hear. Their false smiles, Their hollow words. I watch, As they move through shadows, Believing I am…
By: DS After numerous attempts to meet with Akram Dagher, CEO of H&M Logistics Limited, were scuffed at, aggrieved workers contacted their union to table a formal complaint about their working condition. On 10th October 2024, the Railway Plantation Mineral Industry and Construction Employees union (URPMICE) entered a formal complaint against H&M Logistics Limited regarding…
By: Edrie Caleb John On Wednesday, October 9, 2024, Chinese national Zhou Wenjie appeared before Magistrate Santigie Bangura at Pademba Road Court No. 2 in Freetown, facing four counts of conspiracy to defraud, forgery, and uttering forged documents. The particulars of the offense state that on December 9, 2020, in the Western Area of Freetown,…
By: Edrie Caleb John In a significant ruling on Wednesday, October 9, 2024, Magistrate Santigie Bangura at Pademba Road Court No. 2 declared Ibrahim Marrah not guilty of theft charges, acquitting him of all allegations. As Marrah stood in the dock, raising his hands toward the heavens in a gesture of prayer, the Magistrate addressed…
By: Tommy Sidikie On Wednesday, October 9, 2024, the High Court revoked the bail previously granted to Jehad Basma, Sheku Kabba, and Tamba Lebbie in connection with an alleged 264-carat diamond fraud. During the hearing, State Counsel Yusuf Isaac Sesay informed Magistrate Santigie Bangura of Pademba Road Court No. 2 about the absence of a key…
By: Elizabeth A. Kaine Sierra Leone faces a critical crisis concerning the treatment of its labourers, particularly those employed in sectors dominated by foreign companies. Reports of workers enduring physical abuse from foreign bosses, being forced to work under unsafe conditions, and not receiving wages as stipulated in their contracts paint a harrowing picture of…
By: Tommy Sidikie Ten individuals, including Ansu Koroma, 23, and several masonry workers, appeared before Magistrate Santigie Bangura at Pademba Road Court No. 2 on Wednesday, October 9, 2024, for the continuation of their trial on two counts related to an alleged theft. The accused—Abubakarr Serry, 30, Tamba Kargbo, 28, Mohamed Aruna, 24, Kelfalah Kamara, 28,…
By: Saidu Jalloh A 33-year-old businesswoman, Humunatu Agnes Gbla, appeared before Magistrate Sahr Kekura at Pademba Road Court No. 1 on three counts of assault, including causing grievous bodily harm, wounding, and assault occasioning actual bodily harm against her partner. According to the particulars of the offense, on August 7, 2024, at Parsonage Street in Kissy,…
