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By Joseph L. Kamara

Former workers of the Sierra National Airlines (SNA) have dragged the Government of Sierra Leone to the ECOWAS Court in Nigeria.

A lawyer acting for the aggrieved former workers, Maurice Garber says the Attorney General and Minister of Justice has already been served the full application by the Registrar of the court and that he has 30 days within which to respond. Once that is done a date will be fixed for the matter to come up in the court which is based in Abuja.

By Mohamed T. Massaquoi

A Justice of the Peace sitting in the Magistrates Court in Pujehun has remanded in prison the liaison officer of the iron ore miner, China Kingho investment company limited to await an appearance before a magistrate on the 4 July on allegations of having sex with a minor.

J.P James Momodu Samba ordered that Amadu Sesay be arraigned before Magistrate Alford Fidawi because "I have no power to conduct the preliminary investigations into this matter".

By Mustapha Sesay

Trade and Marketing Manager at the Sierra Leone Brewery Limited, Desmond George, has raised concerns over the influx of foreign beer products into the country saying “it is greatly affecting the operation of the company and the competition is killing us”.

Speaking at a press conference at the company’s head office in Freetown, he said they were not protected by law as the country’s only brewery company, adding that in the cause of their operation the company had employed over 17,000 people nationwide.

By Bampia James Bundu

In a bid to create space for policy makers and land owners to dialogue, a civil society organisation, Green Scenery yesterday opened a 2-day national conference on “creating a platform where policy makers, local authorities, civil society, land owners, and land users and Ministries Department and Agencies (MDAs)".

The meeting is also interfacing, sharing ideas for discussion and consolidating as part of what they say is their contribution towards the constitutional review process relative to land rights and tenure.

Somano Kapen

The Chairman and Leader of the main opposition SLPP party has described as a "palace coup" the decision by a meeting of some members of the party to suspend him and the party's Secretary General.

By Crispina Cummings

Minister of health, Miatta Kargbo, has told parliament that the government is sad about and regrets the loss of lives to the deadly Ebola virus in the country.

While giving an update on the status of the hemorrhagic fever which broke out last month and has killed at least 20 people in the eastern provincial district of Kailahun, the minister sympathised with the bereaved families left behind by Ebola.

By Mohamed T Massaquoi

Police in Pujehun have confirmed the death of a 25-year-old woman who was allegedly stabbed by a 14-year-old pupil of the Methodist Secondary School in Bo.

Jebbeh Shiaka was allegedly stabbed with a long kitchen knife at Madinma Kodogbe village in the Kpanga Kabondeh chiefdom, about 15 miles from Pujehun town.