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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.

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By Septimus Senessie in Kono

Chairman of the community and teacher’s’ association of the United God’s Is Our Light Primary School at Saque Town in Koidu and church overseer has said that they will be “defiant” to any relocation plan by the OCTEA mining company if their demands are not met.