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The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Liberia has finally concluded public hearings and submitted a report of its works with recommendations.
John Morlu came to the position of Auditor General of Liberia with clean records and credentials having won the admiration of the President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf with the backing from the international community.
After failing on two occasions to pass the much-talked about and somehow controversial Threshold Bill, the Liberian Senate yesterday concurred with the House of Representatives to pass the bill, but with modification and condition that no county get not less than two seats.
The Liberia National Police have been accused by a local church of being in cahoots with alleged robbers who reportedly robbed the church of over US14, 000.00
Reacting to public outcries relative to the reticence of the Liberian Government on the detention of Sekou Conneh in Guinea, former leader of one of the warring factions in Liberia, Information Minister Dr. Laurence Bropleh has set the record straight, saying that the detained Conneh is being treated as Guinean national and not a Liberian citizen.
An executive of the New Deal Movement, Professor Alaric K. Tokpa is suggesting and appealing to the National Legislature, Liberia's lawmaking boy, to consider making 'Torture' a crime in Liberia.
This paper has reliably learned that the President of the LIVING Faith Church Worldwide, commonly known as the Winners Chapel International, Bishop David Oyedepo will make an apostolic visit to Liberia from July 20-22, 2009.
As The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) has come to the end of its mandate and made its report to the National Legislature, the Chairman on Reconciliation at the House of Representative, Representative Wesseh Blamoh of Grand Kru County has said the country is still far from achieving total reconciliation.
The Liberian educational system is said to be suffering from the shock of the decade-long civil war, an official of the Ministry of Education has said in Monrovia.
Activities of group of learned Liberians who called themselves “the progressive” have once again come under the microscopic spotlight of a Liberian journalist, James S. King.
The Bomi County Branch of the Manson-craft in Liberia has been reopened with a commitment from the Corinthian Lodge Number 18 Ancient Freemasonry (A.F) and Ancient Modern Masonry (A.M) of Bomi County to embark on a surgical outreach in Tubmanburg free of charge
Though the nation of Liberia, the government of Liberia and the people of Liberia are touched and moved by the death of D. Musulegn Cooper, the National Patriotic (NPP) of which she was a staunch member is bearing the pangs of her demise.
The Charge d’Affaires en Pied at the Embassy of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Madam Nena Marie Helene Okitundu Ayaki has said that the people of Liberia and DR Congo have many things in common such as names of persons and places as well as their eating habits.
The Good Governance through Strengthened Media in Liberia operated by the Liberia Media Center and Journalists for Human Rights has hosted a human rights training for community radio stations in Gbarnga, completing a circuit involving all counties in the country. The workshop also brings to a conclusion the first phase of the LMC/jhr program in Liberia.
Massive preparations are being planned in Monrovia by certain elements within the Mandingo Community to stage a non-violent street demonstration in protest to the prolonged detention in Guinea of the former presidential candidate for the Progressive Democratic Party for Liberia (PROTEMP), Mr.Sekou Demante Conneh.
The Liberian public must have bowed recently in the pool of disbelief and shock when some information scavengers created the impression that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s appointment of Marc A. Amblard as Inspector General of the Liberia National Police was ill-conceived. What the scavengers did to achieve their objective was to mutilate the Inspector General-Designate’s profile ...
Myaha Johnson sits with her family beneath a flimsy shelter of black plastic, looking with despair at the charred remains of what used to be their home. Mary Broh, Monrovia's controversial mayor-designate, had just swept through the neighbourhood with her task force, vigorously tearing down residential structures along the back road, including their own.
Researchers are launching a clinical trial with 1,500 people infected with onchocerciasis (river blindness) in Liberia, Ghana and the Democratic Republic of Congo to test a remedy that could help stop transmission, according to drug manufacturer Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Efforts are underway in the US Congress to extend trial for those living in America and accused of committing crimes against humanity, not only torture, as was the case of Chuckie Taylor, son of former President Charles Taylor, who could not be prosecuted for crimes against humanity because of a legal loophole, according to the Voice of America.
THE CHANGE OF faces and names in government is as normal as human secretion. But in a politically charged society, every appointment raises eyebrows and both the appointer and the appointee often find themselves before the judgment throne of public opinion when ever political appointments are made. The naming of young Marc Amblard as the next Inspector General of Liberia of all other appointments ...
This paper has gathered that as of July 1, 2009 a clinical trial is being launched in three African countries of a drug that could eliminate onchocerciasis, or river blindness, one of the leading infectious causes of blindness across Africa, the World Health Organization has indicated.
A drug normally used in animals will be tested for its ability to control river blindness transmission in clinical trials in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Ghana and Liberia.
The Director of Police was a woman. Her Deputy was a woman. For the first time, the police were led by women. It was a novelty with some romanticism following the election of a woman president.
The motion to set representative constituencies at 40,000 per Representative was defeated in the Senate Wednesday as the body prepares to handle the issue today.
Massive preparations are being planned in Monrovia by certain elements within the Mandingo Community to stage a non-violent street demonstration in protest to the prolonged detention in Guinea of the former presidential candidate for the Progressive Democratic Party for Liberia (PROTEMP), Mr. Sekou Demante Conneh.
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