Southern Province News (4)
The Sierra Leone Chamber of Agribusiness Development (SLeCAD) trains cassava producers and processors in business development and financial literacy
Written by Abdul Conteh
As part of its strive to ensure food security and promote agribusiness development in Sierra Leone, The Sierra Leone Chamber of Agribusiness Development (SLeCAD) in collaboration with IITA and USAID has commenced training sessions for 90 cassava producers and processors in Kambia, Kenema and Bo respectively.
If there is anyone out there who still thinks that money is the be all and end all, who still doubt the power of people to resist monetary inducements for votes, and who still take the people for granted, today is the appropriate response. It is the answer told by people emphatically that money cannot buy votes.
PRESIDENT KOROMA INSPECTS HEALTH FACILITIES IN MATTRU JONG, BONTHE, PUJEHUN, BO, AND MOYAMBA
Written by State House Secretriat
OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT PRESS REPORT PROLOGUE
President Ernest Bai Koroma today made a whirlwind helicopter tour of the southern province in cross-checking health facilities as to their readiness for the April 27th 2010 deadline for the commencement of the plan for the free delivery of services and medication to pregnant women, lactating mothers, and under-five children.
SLPP Wins Bye Elections in Bo and Gives APC a Run for Their Money in Bombali Bye Elections
Written by New People Election Monitoring TeamIf results of the recently concluded bye-elections are anything to go by, the APC government of Ernest Koroma is in deep trouble come 2012. The SLPP is on the move to recapturing lost votes as they have scored very strategic and revealing victories in these elections. The party has managed to get votes that were previously going to the PMDC or APC in their strongholds in the South and East of the country while gaining on votes in the heart of APC territory in Bombali District. In ward 234, Bo District, an area that has a lot of people that have move there from the North of the country and usually gives the APC or the PMDC a sizable number of votes, the SLPP won hands down and took away votes from the APC and PMDC.
