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June 2018

GAC Hosts Stakeholders’ Forum Today

The General Auditing Commission (GAC), Liberia’s Supreme Audit Institution, will on today, Thursday, June 28, 2018, hosts its first forum. According to a release from the GAC, the forum will be held under the theme ‘Enhancing Government’s Developmental Agenda by promoting Accountability and Transparency’. The interactive forum, which brings together the commission’s stakeholders and partners […]

‘Unrealistic, Unachievable’

–IREDD Terms 2018/2019 National Budget By R Joyclyn Wea The Institute for Research and Democratic Development (IREDD), says the Draft National Budget for fiscal year 2018/2019 recently passed by the House of Representatives is ‘unrealistic and unachievable’ for the George Weah led administration. According to IREDD’s Program Officer, Bob Johnson, government is projecting a little […]

LMDI, CENTAL, Internews End Budget Symposium

By Reuben Sei Waylaun In order to ensure that the Liberian budget adequately supports education, health, infrastructure and public sector development, including adhering to its resoundingly and frequently echoed pro-poor agenda, the Liberia Media Development Initiative (LMDI), a local group involved with public information and media development activities, along with Internews, an international media development […]

ROGEP Two-Day Meeting On Regional Solar Power Kicks Off In Ghana

World Bank Practice Manager, Wendy E. Hughes, has called on all representatives at the Regional Off-Grid Electrification Project (ROGEP) 2nd Regional Workshop to work together and develop a comprehensive regional standard that will benefit their countries and the region as they all gear towards providing sustainable and affordable standalone solar power in West Africa and […]

“Arrest Gays, Lesbians…”

-Baptist Preacher Calls, Describes Same Sex Practice as Criminality, Ungodly, Predicts God’s Wrath, and Destruction upon Liberia If… Saint Solomon Joah, a mid-Baptist preacher and Superintendent of the Soltiamon Christian School system, situated in Fiamah, 24 Street Sinkor, Monrovia, has called on Liberia’s Ministry of Justice(MOJ) and the Liberia National Police(LNP), to immediately begin arresting, […]

House Passes LRD 84Billion Budget

-As CDC Lawmakers Show Loyalty to Executive By Reuben Sei Waylaun The House of Representatives has passed the Draft National Budget 2018/2019 in the tone of US$570,148,000.00 or LRD84,333,327,390.40 at the exchange rate of LRD147.9148 to US$1.00. The House’s decision followed the reading of the final report from the Joint Committees of the National Legislature […]

UN Human Rights Commission Opens Office In Liberia

By Reuben Sei Waylaun The United Nations High Commission on Human Rights (OHCHR) has opened its office in Liberia for the first time. OHCHR-Country Representative Uchenna Emelonye Although UNMIL has officially declared its peacekeeping mission officially closed in the country, the OHCHR-Country Representative Uchenna Emelonye said the commissioning of the office has demonstrated the Liberian […]

Man, 40 Stabbed To Death By Stepson

A 21-year-old man, Robert Nyensuah has been charged with murder by the Liberia National Police(LNP), Grand Bassa County detachment. A charge sheet from the Headquarters of the LNP in Grand Bassa County revealed that on Sunday June 24,2018 at 3:46pm, the Crime Services Department of the LNP received a murder case reported by one Trokon […]

Open Bible Recognizes Deacon Ableegar Williams

-As Father Of The Year 2018/2019 By Esau J. Farr The good old Holy Bible says a man reaps what he sows; God is not short-sighted that he can’t see you and your trouble; ‘there is time for everything and purpose under the Heaven’, work while it is day for the darkness cometh when no […]

Rep. Joe To Pave Fairground Road In Buchanan

-Says He Is Delivering On His Promises By Esau J. Farr If residents of Buchanan City, Grand Bassa County did not have anything to smile for, they now have one and it is the pavement of the Tubman Street-Buchanan-Fairground Road in the heart of the port city. The disclosure for the pavement of the road […]