By Bampia James Bundu
The Institute of Management, Accounting and Tourism (IMAT) has awarded full tuition scholarships to ten of their students and 60 pupils from twenty-five government-assisted senior secondary schools for the 2013/14 academic year through their community support programme.
By Aminata Phidelia Allie
Magistrate Komba Kamanda of Court No. 2 in Freetown yesterday refused bail to eleven accused, all of them women, and remanded them in prison until the next adjourned date. The women, all said to be in their twenties, face six counts of loitering with intent in contravention of the Public Order Act of 1965. They were allegedly caught in various parts of Freetown over the weekend.
They all pleaded guilty.
By Crispina Cummings
Parliament has passed the Finance Act 2013, which bill was presented by deputy minister of finance, Momodu Kargbo, arguing that it was exceptionally important to make business competitive but also make rules to regularize them.
He said the Act would enable the tax waver to change, as would open windows in excise duty on polythene and plastic, beverage foods, tobacco, music scene, as well as regularise artisanal mining.
A recent survey report by Afrobarometer has placed Sierra Leone with 63% on the top of countries with the highest rate of bribery while Batswana was rated the lowest with just 4%.
By Bampia James Bundu and Fasalie Sulaiman Kamara
Assistant physician, Mustapha Kemoh, at the Yangadie Memorial Hospital in the east of Freetown has confirmed he is currently treating a 16-year old junior secondary school leaving (BECE) pupil of the Municipal Secondary School for gunshot wounds.
Mariama Liscandry was yesterday hospitalized after a stray bullet allegedly resulting from police attempt to crackdown on violent pupils following the death, on Tuesday, of a pupil of the Ansarul Islamic Secondary School.
By Kenneth Thompson
Statistics Sierra Leone has revealed that about 455,449 Sierra Leoneans are likely to be employed by 2017, betting its projections on what it said was the improved business environment that would continue to attract foreign direct investment.
An annual report released yesterday on what the institution had gathered from the performances of ten government ministries, departments and agencies, MDAs,over the last twelve months, said 14,609 of Sierra Leone’s employees were working for national and international non-government organizations.
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
