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Government of Canada makes significant additional transfers to provinces
As committed to earlier this year, the Honourable Chrystia Freeland (photo), Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, today (Thursday July 14) confirmed that the provinces and territories have now received an additional $2.85 billion in fundin...


Constant electricity for Freetown residents
The capital of Sierra Leone, Freetown, home to over two million people has been connected and is now enjoying the much-awaited 24-hour electricity from the CLSG grid. “People are upbeat and there is excitement all over town,” says Freetown resid...


Sierra Leone: District chairperson detained
PV Staff Madam Yabome Sesay, (photo) the Tonkolili district chairperson (APC) based in Magburaka has been invited to CID headquarters in Freetown for questioning and detained. We have not been able to talk to anybody at CID or police headquarters ...


Tribute to late Brother Gibril Foday-Musa
Tribute to late Brother Gibril Foday-Musa By Teddy Foday-Musa (Brother) 2nd July 2022 1. Intro In December 2021 last year, we spent Christmas together in our village – Kandor. We were together at our famous 25th December On-the-Rock Carnival. T...


Verbatim statement from Speaker of Sierra Leone parliament
Announcement by the Speaker at the sitting of 12 July 2022 Honourable Members, Since our last meeting in this Chamber of Parliament in plenary, a lot has been said and written on social media about the role of this current Parliament and more espe...


Peace Huts by Liberian women
By Oulimata Sarr, Regional Director, West and Central Africa, at UN Women UN Women visited today a women Peace Hut in Monrovia, Liberia. A single peace hut started in 2004 after decades of war has now grown into 38 Peace Huts throughout Liberia . ...


President Julius Maada Bio commissions Mabang bridge
By PV Staff President Julius Maada Bio commissioned the new Mabang bridge last Friday. This bridge will link parts of the north and the west to the south of the country. Funded by the European Union with a contribution from the government of Sier...


A short biography of the late Gibril Foday Musa
A short biography of Gibril Foday-Musa By Teddy Foday-Musa, Accra, Ghana Job 19:26-27 “And though my skin worms destroy the body, yet in my flesh shall I see God. Whom Ishall see for myself and only eyes shall see behold, and not another, though...


New Zealand writer Gigi Fenster
Giovanna (Gigi) Fenster (born 1963/64) is a South African-born New Zealand author, creative writing teacher, and law lecturer. Life Fenster was born in South Africa to a Jewish family. Her father was a psychiatrist. One of five children, she descri...


Advantages of the Proportional Representation system
Special commentary Advantages of Proportional Representation system By Prince Williams, UK The Proportional Representation (PR) system offers a better hope that decisions will be taken in the public eye and by a more inclusive cross-section of so...



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