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The Economic Committee of West African States (ECOWAS) Trade Negotiation Capacity Building Project in collaboration with the Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Trade and Industry organized a capacity building workshop on International Trade Negotiation for members of the National Coordinating Committee on Trade (NCCT), Sierra Leone. The five days training workshop which kicked off  Monday 5th […]

Having become a statutory instrument following the President’s assent on the 30th November, the National Revenue Authority (NRA), prior to executing the provisions inherent in the 2013 Finance Act, has begun sensitizing taxpayers across the country on what is in the new Act and how those provisions are going to be handled by the revenue […]

  WALKING the streets of Sierra Leone, Kat Buxton was amazed by the generosity of locals who would invite her into their homes for a meal, despite having very little food for themselves. Now the enthusiastic cook has replicated this generosity in her Porthtowan home by opening it to the public as a pop-up restaurant […]

Complementing its own plantation output, the Goldtree palm oil business supports an extensive agricultural community, buying in fruit from over 5,000 outgrowers. It is working on significantly improving the fruit yields and technical skills of these smallholder farmers while mitigating against environmental risk and dangerous agricultural practices. Goldtree is an ideal example of the sustainable […]

The Maambena Fest Literacy and Cultural Festival founded in 2011 by Usifu Jalloh under the flagship of the Aruna Jalloh foundation is the only festival in Sierra Leone that prides itself in celebrating both literacy and culture on the same platform. For the past three years the festival has been working on the goal of […]

To complement the effort of government in providing quality education to its citizen across the nation, a philanthropist business man known as AMIN A. SKAIKAY (TAS-STORES) in Kenema city has on Sunday 20th April 2014 dished out scholarships worth twenty million Leones (Le20million) to one hundred and seventy (170) school going children in Kenema and […]

To complement the effort of government in providing quality education to its citizen across the nation, a philanthropist business man known as AMIN A. SKAIKAY (TAS-STORES) in Kenema city has on Sunday 20th April 2014 dished out scholarships worth twenty million Leones (Le20million) to one hundred and seventy (170) school going children in Kenema and […]

Fifteen-year-old Kelvin Doe from Sierra Leone who built his own radio station at the age of 13, 17-year-old Emirati environmental activist Mohammed Nabeel Al Blooshi, who turned the Liwa International School into one of the UAE’s first green schools, and 13-year-old Kehkashan Basu, the youngest person to be elected Global Coordinator for Children and Youth […]

The Institute of Advanced Management and Technology (IAMTECH), has graduated 402 students at its 2014 convocation during which the best male and female students also bagged a cash prize of Le 2, 000, 000 (two million Leones) each donated by the Adonis Abboud Educational Trust Fund.The best male student award went to Bockarie Musa Young, […]

Osman Charlie of the Sierra Leone Athletics Association who is also running for YSC won the Guaranty Trust Bank (GTB) Marathon on Saturday 26th April 2014.He won the 21 kilometer run which started from Grassfield, Kissy in the East of Freetown, through the center of town on to Wilkinson Road and to Lumley Roundabout right […]