By Ezekiel Nabieu
Strange as it may seem I talk of maximum wages. This is balanced thinking. I deem it to be lopsided thinking to think of one of the spectrum without thinking of the other. And you cannot think of wages without labor.
Incidental Ebola Benefits
By Ezekiel Nabieu
What a headline! While others are chanting “Ebola go, tenki papa Ernes, here I am virtually appreciating diabolic Ebola. But even the devil has his attributes. Ebola was brazen enough to enter 2015 with us even as we tried with might and main to scupper it.
To Ebola I say “sad new year, I wish you could change your abhorrent behavior of killing our most useful sons and daughters. Wish you N.R (Never Return).
Ebola and the bread-and-butter issues in Sierra Leone
By Jenneh Braima
As early as last January, a 50kg bag of the most expensive imported rice in the local market - Jasmine – cost Le 127, 000. By the second week of this January, it’s Le 190, 000. The difference has accrued over the last 12 months, fuelled by a number of factors affecting this still struggling economy of Sierra Leone. But the last nine months, characterized by the Ebola epidemic, accounts for most of the increment, consumers, business people and government officials say.
Recruiting and preparing the Ebola fighters
By Fatou Wurie
In the last quarter of 2014 hundreds of Sierra Leoneans passed through the gates of the only National Ebola Response Recruitment Drive (N.E.R.R.D). They had their temperature taken, hands washed in chlorinated water and they sat in neatly-spaced seats hopeful about this “opportunity” – an opportunity to learn, to perhaps earn a stipend. Or more importantly, secure work during a very insecure time in Sierra Leone.
Ethnic Diatribes on Universal Radio
By Sheik Bakarr
On Saturday 28 December last year, while relaxing after a stressful morning, I stumbled on a radio magazine programme on Creole culture on my favourite ''Universal Radio'' anchored by a certain Adolphus.
How Ebola complicates HIV/AIDS in Sierra Leone
By Kemo Cham
Before the 2014 Ebola outbreak in May, it was HIV/AIDS that occupied much of the world's attention. But as rapidly devastating as Ebola has proven to be, campaigners are warning that the world can’t afford to lose sight of the plight of the over 50, 000 Sierra Leoneans living with
HIV.
Besides diversion of funds, there are concerns that HIV positive people are shying away from hospitals over fear of contracting Ebola, stigmatisation and discrimination, risking further complicating their health situation.
