TRACE JOENAL

By Ibrahim Joenal Sesay Hi! How are my beloved readers doing? TRACE has been looking for ways to take a leave of Freetown during the long holidays of recent times in our land but something held TRACE back. TRACE took the opportunity to move around the city during those holidays to see what is going on in the city. One thing that TRACE first discovered was that of the Freetown filth. The filth continues to raise its ugly head in the city and the politicians are doing nothing about it despite several suggestions by the experts. But this is not where TRACE wants to go today. From January to date, TRACE has been monitoring the way Sierra Leone politicians are handling issues of the state and TRACE has now realized that the politicians of the country have their loyalties. The rate of masquerade (devils) parade in the city is gradually becoming daily activity in Freetown. Almost every day you must see one set of masquerades in the city, which some diplomats described as one that ...

By Dr. Adonis Abboud Just when I thought our good old Sierra Leone could not sink any lower than the demeaning decade-long civil war that stripped us of able-bodied compatriots, along comes Ebola to show that there are depths lower than that low. Right now, no thanks to the dreaded virus, our streets and mortuaries are strewn with litany of bodies. One question as we grapple with the devastating virus is: is it just a tragedy, a misfortune or is it something much bigger? Is there an invisible enemy lurking behind this disaster now and as a warning for the future? Are there invisible enemies that we have allowed to fester which are now haunting us or still lurking in the shadows? These questions have become very pertinent not only because of the conspiracy theories that have been making the rounds of the Social Media through the addictive Facebook, WhatsApp , etc...but also because contrary to the hopes of some, the calamity is turning out to be something that canno...