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By Bampia James Bundu

Don Bosco Family has provided 50,000 Euros for the construction of boreholes, water tanks and repairs of toilets at the central Pademba Road prison in Freetown.

Director of Don Bosco Family, Lother Wagner, told a press conference that they had been partnering with the prison authorities to ensure the provision of basic amenities for inmates.

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

Defence and prosecution objections and applications for one reason or another have stalled the start of the mutiny trial of 14 soldiers of the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces.

For the last three weeks defence lawyers hired by the state had been absent on grounds of non-payment of fees. When they finally showed up yesterday, 5 May, amid expectations that evidence would be led, the matter was adjourned again as the prosecution’s witnesses were absent.

Alpha Alie Jalloh

A 19-year-old blind man is to represent Sierra Leone at an international quranic reading competition in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, according to Sheikh Fomba A.B. Swaray.

Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources appeared before parliamentary Public Accounts Committee yesterday to answer to questions and queries levelled against them as contained in the Audit Service Report of 2012.

By Matthew Kanu

A three-day conference on religious tolerance in Sierra Leone has ended in the northern town of Makeni.

Organised by the University of Makeni (UNIMAK), the conference brought together 45 Muslim and Christian leaders.

By Septimus Senessie in Kono.

A heavy down pour in Koidu on Tuesday lasting about 45 minutes left parts of the town submerged under water as property worth millions of Leones perished at the Gbense Market and its surroundings.

Somano Karpen

By Bampia James Bundu

Chairman and leader of the main opposition Sierra Leone Peoples’ Party, SLPP, Chief Sumano Kapen has called on the Interreligious Council in Sierra Leone to intervene and resolve the impasse that has plagued his party.