permissions problem

My Question

I want to create a shell script called 'permissions' which takes a file as an argument. The script should be able to determine what permissions the owner, group and everybody has for the file passed in.

The output of this script should resemble this:

                                            READ WRITE EXECUTE
OWNER ADAM.ADEBISI         YES     YES       NO
GROUP USERS                      YES      NO       NO
EVERYBODY                          NO       NO       NO

so far i have done this:

#!/bin/bash

perm=$(ls -l $1 | cut -f1 -d" ")
group=$(ls -l $1 | cut -b26-32 )
owner=$(ls -l $1 | cut  -b17-23)
or=$(echo $perm | cut -b2)
ow=$(echo $perm | cut -b3)
ox=$(echo $perm | cut -b4)
gr=$(echo $perm | cut -b5)
gw=$(echo $perm | cut -b6)
gx=$(echo $perm | cut -b7)
er=$(echo $perm | cut -b8)
ew=$(echo $perm | cut -b9)
ex=$(echo $perm | cut -b10)

echo "For file: $1"
echo -e "\t\tREAD\tWRITE\tEXEC"
echo -e "\t\t----\t-----\t----"

echo -e "$owner\t\t$or\t$ow\t$ox"
echo -e "$group\t\t$gr\t$gw\t$gx"
echo -e "other\t\t$er\t$ew\t$ex"

but the output is not what i predicted

For file:
                READ    WRITE   EXEC
                ----    -----   ----

m.adebi
m.adebi
m.adebi
m.adebi
m.adebi
m.adebi
m.adebi
m.adebi
m.adebi
m.adebi
m.adebi
m.adebi
m.adebi
m.adebi
m.adebi
m.adebi

where am i going wrong?