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 […]

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 […]

Past and present students of the Government Secondary school Kenema have celebrated another year of the founding of the school. This year’s anniversary celebrations started on Monday 21st April with a flag raising ceremony. As part of the schools tradition the Board of Governors as well as the schools administration every year interface with institutions, […]

Spokesman of the Chinese Embassy Mr Xu Zhou announced in Freetown yesterday Wednesday, 23rd April that China will donate medical materials to support Sierra Leone in the prevention of Ebola disease. He said that an agreement on China’s support to Sierra Leone was signed by the Chinese Ambassador to Sierra Leone, H.E. Mr. Zhao Yanbo […]

We do agree that family hood is treasured a lot the world over especially in Africa where the belief in the extended family still largely remains a kingpin in the culture and tradition. However no matter how much value we place on certain tenets of our culture, one thing that seriously threatens its sustenance is […]

The Liberian Government has been undertaking some admirable steps as part of efforts to conserve the remaining disappearing West Africa Upper Guinea Forest Ecoregion; a biogeographic region which is recognized as a biodiversity hotspot of global importance. After the German Forest Mission assessment of Liberia’s forest in 1958, the Government of Liberia established 9 National […]

In the Western world, airbrushed photos of Miranda Kerr dictate what beauty is. In West Africa, the Mende people use intricately carved wooden masks to communicate female aesthetic ideals. Ten of these so-called Sande masks are on view at the National Museum of African Art as part of a new exhibit, “Visions from the Forests: […]