With A Massive Harvest Of Onions…
Pee Cee Agriculture Ltd. Supports President Bio’s Feed Salone Program
Trade Minister Reaffirms Sierra Leone’s Commitment To inclusive & Equitable Trade
By Mohamed Lamin Massaquoi
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Sierra Leone Government To Launch National Payment Switch
The switch makes provision for buyers, users and sellers of financial products and services to make transactions across access channels such as automatic teller machines (ATM) points of sale (POS). The switch will route all transactions irrespective of the cards used to central national payment switch for settlement at the Bank of Sierra Leone.
Broke!…SLPP Govt To Implement Killer Taxes
Contrary to what the finance minister said, Tax experts have criticized the Minimum Alternate Tax (MAT) as one that will lead to the closure of companies in these difficult times and thereby lead to loss of revenue.
SMC Pays Over Le1 Billion Surface Rent To Three Chiefdoms
The surface rent payment is $ 80,000. 00 (Eighty thousand US Dollars) paid in Leones equivalent: Gbense Chiefdom got 80% $ 64,000.00 while Tankoro Chiefdom got 10% $ 8,000.00 and Kamara Chiefdom got 10% $ 8,000.00.
As They Pen Agreement With Sierra Rutile…Mano Mining To Invest Over $150 Million
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Mano Mining, Ibrahim Mansaray said that the mining agreement between them and Sierra Rutile Limited will create at least 250 jobs for start.
From $610.42M To $523.80M…Salone Foreign Reserves Depleted!
He said that the gross international reserves of the Bank of Sierra Leone have declined to US$523.80 million as at the end of June 2023, from US$610.42 million as at end of December, 2022, due to increase in payments for debt service and goods and services.
Sierra Rutile Leads The Way On Local Content
CEO of Sierra Rutile Limited, Theuns De Bruyn explained that they have been doing in-source mining but they decided to outs-sourced it a year ago and it was given to an international company.
“… Both Parties Exchanged Flirtatious Messages To Each Other…” RCP Investigation Committee Reveals
However the committee was unable to ascertain who initiated the flirtatious messages and that after a five-month period of being flirtatious with each other, the Legal Adviser/ Company Secretary sent a message to the MD that she wants this to stop which according to the committee was the turning point in the dynamics of their interaction.
PRESIDENT BIO IS A VICTIM OF GLOBAL CRISIS
The fact is that President Bio was elected on a platform of change and a new direction for Sierra Leone but that change has been punctuated by COVID-19- which started in China in 2020 and spread across the globe, the Russia-Ukraine War and the global inflation on prices of basic commodities.
