By Brima Bah
I have been struggling to aptly translate the Krio expression “Game Na Biskit” into acceptable English. But I’m still struggling not just with the translation but also with grasping the rationale behind the saying which has become both a common saying and a comfort zone for especially losers in a game or a match.
By TDK Pessima
“But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, and the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand”. That is according to Ezekiel 33:6
The saying “Like Ernest Koroma, Like Siaka Stevens” is becoming irrefutably true day by day as we see the developmental strides made by the latter. It is quite true that Stevens was the father and architect of development in Sierra Leone.
By Winston Ojukutu-Macaulay Jnr.
It is Saturday afternoon and I find myself in the heart of Dove Court market in the East End of Freetown. It is considered to be the largest informal market in Sierra Leone. My visit was to get a better understanding of why such a large group of mostly women, young and old are not within the national taxation radar.
By Brima Bah
With Sierra Leone football forced to go into administration by a “Normalization Committee”, things could not have got worse. But with the current rigmarole over the elective congress of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) the glimmers of hope of resuscitating the very fragile game are fast fading away.
In the midst of the a string of allegations of fraud and bad banking discipline the Sierra Leone Association of Commercial Banks recently elected a new President. The MD of ECOBANK Sierra Leone, Clement Dodoo is saddled with the responsibility to re-railing the reputation of commercial banks which seems to have been knocked off the rail owing to recent scandals. In this interview, he talks to Politico’s Business Editor Tanu Jalloh.
Politico: And why the Association of Sierra Leone Bankers?
By Tilly Barrie
I wouldn’t be able to mind my business with rotten rats under the carpets, sooner or later the stench will become unbearable and as a tax payer I guess I have some privileges without prejudicing anybody or anything.
One needs to speak the truth even if it brings the house down. People are not treating the system with seriousness and are blatantly not covering their “white yams”. Flamboyancy, peacock-style and one-in-town life style is common all over the town.
Money grabbing
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
