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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 […]
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 needed results consistent with these overwhelming efforts […]
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 would love […]
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 […]
By Jamesetta D Williams MONROVIA-In a major push to enhance Liberia’s education system, the Ministry of Education has launched a nationwide recruitment campaign targeting qualified, passionate, and experienced educators and administrative professionals. The new hires will serve in newly constructed modern schools located in Bong and Nimba Counties. According to Deputy Minister Daniel Sando, the […]
By Jamesetta D Williams Monrovia, Liberia – August 4, 2025: A group of staffers from the Ministry of Transport staged a protest Monday morning at the grounds of the Capitol Building in Monrovia, calling for improved working conditions, delayed salaries, and better administrative oversight. The protesting workers, dressed in black and holding placards, gathered peacefully […]
Editorial-THE CHAPTER OF HOW former President Samuel Kanyon Doe was captured, gruesomely killed and dishonorably buried may simmer for centuries as it has become part of Liberia’s historical realities. For this generation of Liberians in general and Grand Gedeans in particular familiar with the Samuel Doe story, it’s both a personal experience and physical history.
Monrovia, Liberia-IT IS OVER A YEAR since President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, elected in 2023 in a dramatic election, was sworn in to head and lead Africa’s oldest independent Republic so scarred by plethora of eventful occurrences said to be largely spurred bad governance and cancerous corruption.
FOLLOWING YEARS OF POLITICAL turbulence – a period of tears, cries and losses – Liberians’ foremost anticipation and expectations have been that there would never be a repeat of such an apocalypse of unthinkable magnitude. Their embracing of peace over violence and destruction was proven in the overwhelming election of then President Charles Taylor, who […]
MONROVIA—LIBERIA IS EXPERIENCING SERIOUS laceration in its governance structure – though not strange- in light of the hubbub on Capitol High, at the House of Representatives specifically, where a group of agitating lawmakers are seeking the removal of House Speaker, Cllr. J. Fonati Koffa, on allegations of wrongdoing and missteps in the conduct of the […]