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Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Consumer Protection Commission. Mr. Lawrence Bassie, on Tuesday 19th December 2023, held fruitful discussions with various Civil Society Organizations dealing with Consumer Protection issues, namely: the Consumer Protection Agency. Consumer Welfare and Consumer Protection Council, during which he stressed the Commission’s zero-tolerance over compromising integrity. Present at the meeting were: Mr. Ibrahim Kabia, Director of the Consumer Protection Agency, and head of a Consortium OF CSOs with similar roles, Haja Kadie Kabia, Admin/Human Resource Officer at the Consumer Protection Agency, Susan Williams, Deputy Director at the Consumer Welfare and Lamin Mannoh, National Coordinator, Consumer…
The Parliament of Sierra Leone on Tuesday,19/12/2023, approved the Bill entitled, “The Appropriation Act, 2024”, (National Budget) for the services and development of Sierra Leone. It could be recalled that the budget was presented to Parliament by the Minister of Finance, Sheku Ahmed Fantamadi Bangura, on Friday 10/11/2023 in the Chamber of Parliament, Tower Hill, Freetown, on the theme: “Restoring Macroeconomic Stability, While Protecting the Poor and the Vulnerable”. The Bill seeks to authorise expenditure from the consolidated fund for the services of Sierra Leone for the year 2024 and other related matters. The total budget approved for the fiscal…
To strengthen Sierra Leone’s Immigration systems in line with His Excellency President Dr. Julius Maada Bio’s agenda, the Chief Immigration Officer of Sierra Leone, Hon. Alusine Kanneh, on 19th December 2023, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Belgium Immigration Office in Brussels. The MOU primarily seeks to open room for collaboration on border activities between the two institutions, focusing on strategic immigration issues, such as border control, security intelligence exchange programmes, technical cooperation and exchange of information. The Chief Immigration Officer, Hon. Kanneh said the relationship between the two institutions, which has been developed over the years, allows…
His Excellency President Dr Julius Maada Bio has received and welcomed the 24th Chinese Medical Team to Sierra Leone, recalling their role in the successful fight against COVID-19. Ambassador Wang Qing of the People’s Republic of China and the team were presented to the President by the Minister of Health, Dr Austin Demby, who made the point that the Chinese government had been sending medical aid overseas for 60 years now, adding that Sierra Leone has also benefitted from the medical charity for 50 years. His Excellency was delighted that since 1973, the People’s Republic of China had dispatched a…
Originally established as a chimpanzee sanctuary, Tacugama has grown to become much more than just a sanctuary. Founded in 1995, Tacugama has played a significant role in putting Sierra Leone on the map, having been featured on global television networks like CNN and Aljazeera, Tacugama’s work spans far beyond the borders of Sierra Leone, reaching people on all the continents, with the help of robust social media campaigns. Tacugama is Sierra Leone’s number one tourist location on Trip Advisor, attracting people from across the world to come to experience the serene natural beauty that Sierra Leone has to offer. Tacugama…
Led by President Ahmed Sahid Nasralla, members of the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) and its affiliate bodies held an engagement with the New UNDP Resident Representative Frederick Hans Ampiah and his core team at his Fourah Bay Close office in Freetown. Nasralla briefed the UNDP Resident Representative and his team on SLAJ and the media landscape in Sierra Leone looking beyond just what one sees in the newspapers and hears on radio and television. He talked about media pluralism (its positives and negatives), media ownership, media poverty and reporters’ welfare, media viability and sustainability, media freedom and responsibility,…
On 14th – 15th December 2023, the National Consumer Protection Commission (NCPC) held induction and training of newly appointed staff at the Office of National Security (ONS) at Tower Hill in Freetown, where its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) stressed the importance of upholding integrity by all. Speaking at the opening ceremony, Madam Massaquoi, representing the Ministry of Trade and Industry gave a brief background to the establishment of the Commission, which was born out of an Act of Parliament enacted in 2020. She maintained that President Bio desires to ensure that Sierra Leoneans get value for their money from transactions in the…
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa, Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly, France’s Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna and Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani attend a working dinner during G7 ministerial meetings, in Tokyo, Japan, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. [Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP] Old (colonial) habits die hard. After a two-day meeting of foreign ministers from the wealthy Group of Seven (G7) countries in the Japanese capital, Tokyo, in early November, US…
Freetown Terminal Limited (FTL), a subsidiary of Africa Global Logistics (AGL) Company, donated school materials worth a little over Le150 million to over 1,000 school-going kids at Moa Wharf and Sea Side Communities in Freetown on Friday 15th December 2023. General Manager of the company, Maroun Adiaad, said the donation is part of the company’s yearly corporate social responsibility and a way of complementing the government’s free quality education project. He explained that the donation package contained school bags and other materials that would help reduce the burden on parents in the two communities. “We see this now as a mandate…
By Abubakarr Bah Sierra Leone’s Minister of Employment, Labour and Social Security, Hon. Mohamed Rahman Swaray, has requested his Thai counterpart, Hon. Phiphat Ratohakit Prakaran, to facilitate the unconditional release and repatriation of two Sierra Leonean nationals who are allegedly imprisoned in Thailand. Hon. Swaray requested his Thai counterpart during a meeting on the sidelines of the first Global Labour Market Conference (GLMC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Thursday, 14th December 2023. The two Sierra Leoneans, Daniel Fanne Sesay and Alpha Bundu were trafficked from Sierra Leone to Thailand by illegal recruiters on the pretext that they were going to…