I think the best solution to your problem is to use awk.
ls -la | awk '{print $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $9}'
So you obtain an output like this:
drwxr-xr-x. 6 root root 4096 .
dr-xr-xr-x. 22 root root 4096 ..
drwx------+ 5 user staff 170 Desktop
drwx------+ 16 user staff 544 Documents
drwx------+ 6 user staff 204 Downloads