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By Mohamed T. Massaquoi

The iron ore miner, China Kingho Investments, Sierra Leone Ltd. says it expects to spend Le 1.8 billion annually to execute its Community Development Action Plan in the Kpaka and Galliness Perri chiefdoms in Pujehun district, for an initial period of five years, under its Corporate Social Responsibility portfolio.

This disclosure was made by an Environmental Impact Assessment consultant with the Environmental Protection Agency, Brima Kamara at a disclosure meeting held in the two chiefdoms where the company will operate.

By Crispina Cummings

Officials of the labour ministry and social security have told the committee on labour in parliament that the country’s national immigration department has been collecting work fees for permit on their behalf without accounting for such.

The head of Permit Bureau, Emmanuel Lansana said companies like African Minerals had and continued to pay residential and work permit to the immigration since 2012, amounting to billions of leones.

By Mohamed T. Massaquoi

The health management team in Pujehun and other stakeholders in the district last week held a cross border meeting on Ebola with their Liberian counterparts at the Bo Waterside Immigration conference hall on the Liberian side of the border.

The District Medical Officer in Pujehun, Dr. David Bome said their aim was to create public awareness on the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone and to collaborate with  Liberian Immigration officers in combating the disease.

Engr. Christiana Sesay

The site engineer in charge of rebuilding the collapsed King Jimmy says it will be completed "by the end of June".

By Aminata Phidelia Allie

The constitutional review committee is yet to start public consultations and civil education proper because government has failed to make any financial disbursement as promised, says the commission’s chairman at a recent plenary in Freetown.

Miatta Kargbo, Minister of Health

Sierra Leone has made "astonishing progress" in tackling tropical diseases that leave 1.4 billion people globally in chronic and debilitating pain, says a new report by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), the UK’s leading development think-tank.

Business news agency, Bloomberg, has reported that the recent outbreak of Ebola has caused a sharp drop in shares of British registered iron ore mining companies London Mining Company (LMC) and African Minerals Limited (AML).

LMC declined by 14 percent by close in London yesterday Wednesday 4 June, the lowest since it first sold shares in 2009. AML dropped 7.6 percent, the lowest since April 29, 2009.

Sierra Leone reported its first case of the deadly hemorrhagic fever last week, months after it had wreaked havoc in Guinea and Liberia.