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By politico staff writer

In an effort to streamline and provide a legal and regulatory framework to guide the award of duty and tax exemptions, the Parliament of Sierra Leone has enacted the Tax and Duty Exemption Act 2023.

The Act has consolidated the legal framework for regulating and administering exemptions in Sierra Leone.

The defending champions of the Sierra Leone Premier League, Bo Rangers, seem to be on the cusp of history.  

With 20 matches played, they have not lost a single match, and have won 14, scored 27 goals and conceded only eight, with 13 clean sheets. Their players have won 12 Man of The Match awards.

If they manage to avoid defeat in their remaining 14 matches of the season, they will be one of very few clubs – and the first since EE Lions in 2019 – to go a whole season unbeaten.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

A nation -wide poll published by Sierra Poll has indicated increased fear of violence in the upcoming elections slated for June 24^th, 2023 by 36% percentage points following the recent killing of Assistant Superintendent of Police Matthew Gbanya in Makeni.

The fear in the minds of Sierra Leoneans increased from 20% in February of 2023 to 56% in April 2023 according to the report which was published on the 20^th of April, 2023.

By Saio Marrah

The second report of the ongoing trial of the alleged corruption surrounding the renovation of the Sierra Leone UN Mission Chancery Building in New York has indicated that 47% of the work has been satisfactorily completed after 90% of the payment was made.

This is according to an assessment report prepared between 2019 and 2021 by Paul Bockarie, the head of a team of Engineers from the Ministry of Works and Public Asset after a visit to the chancery building in New York.

By Chernor Alimamy Kamara

The Sierra Leone Association of Journalists (SLAJ) has joined growing calls by media organizations and journalists across the world for the immediate release of US Wall Street Journal Journalist, Evan Gershkovich.

By Nasratu Kargbo

Following concerns raised by Members of the Sierra Leone Parliament regarding the ratification of an Air Service  Agreement with the Government of Mali which has been suspended from all ECOWAS activities, Acting Leader of Government Business, Bashiru Silikie and the Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Segenpoh Solomon Thomas  have assured their concerned colleagues that it will not breach ECOWAS protocols.  

By Nasratu Kargbo

The Bank of Sierra Leone (BSL) has created a cashless payment system called the National Payment Switch which will be launched on the 29^th of April 2023. This, according to the Acting Bank Governor Ibrahim L. Stevens is in a bid to transform the country’s payment system in order to build a cashless economy.

He told a Press Conference in Freetown that the system creates a platform that facilitates interconnection and interoperability between payment channels of various players in the financial landscape.