Mental Health Awareness week is from 8th to 14th May 2017. The theme this year is 'surviving or thriving'. Conversations about anxiety, stress and depression in Sierra Leone have increased, but we are still a society that shuns away from therapy and talking about our problems. Instead, we focus on other people's lives, drink heavily and joke. Following a research done by a team from the University of York, Research Fellow Meredith Newlin was quoted as saying "an estimated 1

The recently passed Finance Act 2016 is being implemented. If you own an SME like I do, then you would be especially interested in the Income Tax amendments. These ones particularly interested me: Section 1 - Amendment of Section 2 of the Income Tax Act 2000: Micro Taxpayer means a taxpayer whose annual turnover is between Le10,000,000 and Le90,000,000. Small Taxpayer means a taxpayer whose annual turnover of between Le90,000,000 and Le350,000,000. Section 15 - Part 1 of th

A lot of us are guilty of not recognising our subordinates for a job well done. The general thinking is that they are doing the job they are being paid for. While that is true, if we want our employees to feel like part of the organisation, then we have to show them that we appreciate them. We chastise them when they don't do the job as required, so it makes sense to commend them when they get it right. 80% of the CVs I receive are from job seekers who have worked for an o