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By Mabinty M.Kamara

One of Sierra Leone’s leading rice importers, the Commodity Trading Company (CTC), has on Wednesday 19^th August, distributed measuring scales to retail dealers in Freetown. The beneficiaries are those who deal in rice in bags.

The distribution of the measuring tools was facilitated by the Sierra Leone Standards Bureau (SLSB), which said the goal is to ensure fairness in trade by giving consumers the opportunity to weigh the rice in the shops before buying them.

By Prince J Musa in Kenema

As a way of motivating the security sector to embark on agriculture and in an effort to beautify the Sierra Leone Police (SLP) regional headquarters in the East, the police there have gotten a pledge to the sum of Le17 million from the  Sierra Leone Produce Monitoring Board (SLPMB). The pledge was made jointly with the cocoa, cashew and coffee exporters in the region.

By Francis H. Murray

More witnesses have testified before Magistrate Mark Ngegba in Freetown in the ongoing preliminary investigations into recent violent disturbances in the northern regional headquarter town of Makeni which claimed the lives of at least five people.

In his testimony, the head of police operations in the north-east, Assistant Superintendent George Momoh recognized some of the accused persons and remembered receiving a call from AIG Frank Alpha, inviting him and other personnel to a meeting at his residence in Makeni.

By Mabinty M.Kamara

The Management of the Sierra Leone Ports Authority (SLPA) has concluded engagements with mining companies operating withing the Sherbro River, including the Sierra Leone Mineral Holding Limited 1 (VIMETCO) and Sierra Rutile Limited (Iluka Mining).

By Francis H. Murray

FJP Development and Management Consultants has embarked on a six-day webinar training for auditors, boards of directors and managements, with the goal of ensuring internal quality.

The training, the organizers say, is for participants to get prepared to mitigate the risks, leverage the opportunities, and stay ahead of the competition and for smart investment.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

A new Afrobaromter survey has shown a low approval rating for how the Sierra Leone government is handling the economy. The survey showed that only 19% of people believe that the government is doing well in handling the economy.

Rating about the country’s economic performance was low on almost every indicator in the report, which is part of a series of Afrobarometer surveys that have been done by the local think tank, Institute of Governance Reform.

By Mabinty M. Kamara

The Sierra Leone Police, under the leadership of Inspector General of Police, Ambrose Michael Sovula, is on the verge of restructuring the ranking structure in the force.

Sovula said he is restoring 10 ranks removed between 1999 and 2003, bringing the total to 19.

The police boss made the disclosure in an address to a group of officers from the Operations Support Division (OSD) at their headquarters in Freetown on Monday.