The News Review:
- Sierra Leone: Kargbo Out of Olympic Challenge
- Awareness Times News Briefs from Sierra Leone
- Sierra Leone: Kingdom Family to Improve Status of Children
- Former President Kabbah Lectures on Good Journalism in Sierra Leone
- SIERRA LEONE POLICE PRESS RELEASE
- Standard Chartered Bank Refurbishes Guma Building Outlet in Sierra …
Sierra Leone: Kargbo Out of Olympic Challenge
AllAfrica.com, Washington
Sierra Leone’s only female athlete in the ongoing Olympic Games in Beijing Saturday failed to qualify for the next round of the women’s 100meters. Michaela Kargbo, who was the youngest in heat 10, competed against eight other athletes from Jamaica, Norway, Virgin Island, Haiti, Russia, Malta, Montenegro and Nepal. GA_googleFillSlot(“AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); The 17 year-old started in the inside lane with a good jump from the block but finished seventh at a time of 12. 54 seconds behind 24 year-old Jamaican, Stewart Kerron who won the heat at a time of 11.
Awareness Times News Briefs from Sierra Leone
Awareness Times, Sierra Leone
In collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Health Ministry is already making arrangements for the doctors arrival. According to reports, 30 of the doctors will be coming from Nigeria, 50 from Cuba and 30 from Egypt. Less Access to Pure Water RevealedWater Resource Specialist, Mary Renwick is said to have disclosed that less than 30% of the population of Sierra Leone have access to safe water. Freetown and other rural areas access to water is really sympathetic and the situation has exacerbated because of the mass population growth in the urban areas as a result of the war, she said. Mary Renwick is said to have intimated that access to safe drinking water is the major cause of diseases, adding that it is a huge contributor that nearly 30% of the childrens population die before they reach the age of five years. Government Mining Policy CondemnedReports have it that Civil Society Groups across the country on Thursday 14th August 2008 condemned governments review of the mining policy which they described as unpatriotic. Lesley Mboka, NMJD National Chairman is said to have disclosed that the document did not reflect the citizenrys interest; it lacks civil society input, land owners and local leaders input among other stakeholders.
Sierra Leone: Kingdom Family to Improve Status of Children
AllAfrica.com, Washington
GA_googleFillSlot(“AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); Founder and director Jasper Daniel Patrick has fought very hard to keep these children together. He has collaborated with an American Lt.
Former President Kabbah Lectures on Good Journalism in Sierra Leone
Awareness Times, Sierra Leone
Ahmad Tejan Kabbah has last Friday August 15th 2008 called on Sierra Leone journalists to practice good journalism in order to build for themselves a profession which all citizens will respect. Kabbah was speaking at the Miatta Conference Centre in Freetown during his Opening Remarks at the First Annual Oguoguo Memorial Lecture organized by Concord Times Newspaper. Whilst drawing attention to the practice of demonising and assassinating the character of well-meaning individuals by some sections of the media, Pa Kabbah called for journalists to research their stories and to confront their subjects with their findings before publication.
SIERRA LEONE POLICE PRESS RELEASE
Awareness Times, Sierra Leone
Some of these Media houses have gone ahead to castigate the Police based on one sided allegations made to them. Police Headquarters views such allegations with dismay since no formal complaints have been made by any of the affected parties. The Sierra Leone Police has therefore decided to set up an investigating panel to be headed by the Assistant Inspector General in charge of Professional Standards and his Deputy. Policy Headquarters request the Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) to nominate two of its members to join the investigating panel to ensure transparency. The investigation modalities will be worked out as soon as the two nominees of SLAJ report to the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Professional Standards. The Sierra Leone Police wishes it to be known that it is committed to providing a safe and secured environment for the citizenry of this country and any attempt to unduly tarnish its hard worn image will not be entertained. The cooperation of all and sundry is highly solicited.
Standard Chartered Bank Refurbishes Guma Building Outlet in Sierra …
Awareness Times, Sierra Leone
This is a venture implemented to answer the various call from customers for the institution of better services at that particular point. The bank has upgraded its services and the Guma Building and therefore adding the services of paying Guma Valley Water company bills and electricity bills. The services added will drastically reduce delay in attending to customers and it is deliberately intended to meet world banking standards. The management of the bank has stated categorically that Standard Chartered Bank as the oldest commercial Bank with about.