By Winston Ojukutu-Macaulay Jnr.
It is Saturday afternoon and I find myself in the heart of Dove Court market in the East End of Freetown. It is considered to be the largest informal market in Sierra Leone. My visit was to get a better understanding of why such a large group of mostly women, young and old are not within the national taxation radar.
By Brima Bah
With Sierra Leone football forced to go into administration by a “Normalization Committee”, things could not have got worse. But with the current rigmarole over the elective congress of the Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) the glimmers of hope of resuscitating the very fragile game are fast fading away.
In the midst of the a string of allegations of fraud and bad banking discipline the Sierra Leone Association of Commercial Banks recently elected a new President. The MD of ECOBANK Sierra Leone, Clement Dodoo is saddled with the responsibility to re-railing the reputation of commercial banks which seems to have been knocked off the rail owing to recent scandals. In this interview, he talks to Politico’s Business Editor Tanu Jalloh.
Politico: And why the Association of Sierra Leone Bankers?
By Tilly Barrie
I wouldn’t be able to mind my business with rotten rats under the carpets, sooner or later the stench will become unbearable and as a tax payer I guess I have some privileges without prejudicing anybody or anything.
One needs to speak the truth even if it brings the house down. People are not treating the system with seriousness and are blatantly not covering their “white yams”. Flamboyancy, peacock-style and one-in-town life style is common all over the town.
Money grabbing
By Steven Rogers
On June 30th 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama spoke at the Johnson Memorial Hall of the University of Cape Town, at the same spot that Robert F. Kennedy delivered his now famous “Ripple of Hope” speech nearly half a century ago. These two American politicians that have inspired the world in so many ways and are separated by so many generations, and world events, have been inseparably allied with the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa.
Rainy season at Kroo Bay
I live in Kroo Bay
It has been a terrible night and day
The pitter-patter of the rain
Has brought us so much pain
Our kids can’t go to school
Our rooms look like a pool
Scooping water all night
This is certainly not right
Some say we have been stubborn
Refusing to somewhere else move on
But where else can we afford it?
When to landlords all our savings we’ll forfeit
Resettle us government we are a part of this nation
Supported by: Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA)
