PRESIDENT JOSEPH NYUMA BOAKAI took center stage Wednesday at the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in a very dramatic fashion, delivering a cross-cutting statement that is considered both appealing and concerning. The appeal aspect of the speech concerned its focus on some global and national issues, while the other aspect has to…

EDITORIAL: Why Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency, Instead of Liberia Anti-drug Agency?

Why Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency, Instead of Liberia Anti-drug Agency? THE LACK OF CLEAR-CUT successes in the fight against drug is tremendously mindboggling, given the huge publicity, tough-provoking actions, the overriding national crusade of citizens’ involvement coupled with the indefatigable efforts of all and sundry. Not getting the…

EDITORIAL: HEED THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT

MONROVIA-POLITICS ASIDE, THE AUDACITY to face reality shows the remarkableness and truthfulness in the way any government conducts the affairs of state, and advance the needs and well-being of the governed. Truth being told, the recently released damaging U.S. States Department Human Rights Report on Liberia is not what the Government of Liberia…

EDITORIAL: JFK AND ITS UNENDING INCUBUS

THE JOHN F. KENNEDY Memorial Hospital, Liberia’s premium medical facility or referral Hospital, is once again in the news, not necessarily for the most thrilling reasons it was established in the 1960s, but for the very nauseating and disgusting conditions under which it is operating and subjecting patients to. What’s happening there is seen as a…