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Land Ownership Rights Challenged
Land Commission Chair Dr. Cecil T. O. Brandy says the hard work of implementing the land rights policy now begins in Liberia, having developed and presented the draft policy to President Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf at the Centennial Memorial Pavilion Tuesday. "The implementation of this policy requires even more hard work; even more consultations; even more involvement with communities as we ...
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Child Labor Confab Opens
A four-day conference on the development of a national action plan for eliminating child labor in Liberia has begun in Monrovia. The gathering brought together both local and international stakeholders drawn from every sector on the issues of child labor dubbed: "Development of a Background Document." Addressing the conference, Charles Kwarteng Asafo-Adjei, the International Labor ...
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Buyers to Producers - Liberian Market Women Climbing Higher With Farming Cooperative
Monrovia- The Sirleaf Market Women Fund with support from City Construction on Tuesday launched a farming cooperative in Mount Barclay, Montserrado County for Liberian market women. City Construction presented the amount of US$2,317 to the market women for the purchase of tools for the 15-acre farmland project intended to help shift market women from being mere buyers to producers. At the ...
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Liberias Finance Minister Sets Conditions for Disbursing County Development Funds
Finance minister Amara Konneh says County Council Resolutions on sound development projects and financial statements are conditions for disbursing county development funds. Speaking during his appearance before the Plenary of the House of Representatives Minister Konneh blamed the delay in the disbursement of County development funds to failure of County authorities to provide performance ...
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Angel Togbas Mother Pushes Supreme Court to Act
Dead and gone ever since but yet-to-be-resolved circumstances that led to her death continue to remind her parents and ordinary Liberians of her life, and compounding this is the delay in bringing the trial of her alleged murderers to close. With a new chief justice at the helm of the Supreme Court in person of Cllr, Francis Korkpor, the biological mother of the late Angel M. Togba is calling ...
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Liberia Health Workers On Go-Slow
Finance and Health Ministers Amara Konneh and Walter Gwenigale have been summoned to appear before the Senate plenary Thursday, May 23, 2013 to answer why health workers in Grand Kru County have not received their three months' pay. The decision to summon the two ministers was reached Tuesday, following a complaint by a Grand Kru County Senator, Peter Coleman that health workers in that ...
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Liberia Block the Road
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has ordered the Minister of Public Works to block the Samuel K. Doe (S.K.D) Boulevard road. President Johnson-Sirleaf ordered that the road be blocked to vehicles and other activities to allow speedy construction of the road. "Mr. Public Work Minister, block the roadso you can get the job done; you can't be trying to pave the road and you've ...
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Liberia Ellen Orders SKD Boulevard Closed
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has ordered Public Works Minister Samuel Kofi Woods, to close the SKD Boulevard Road currently under renovation in Paynesville to traffic in order to avoid ongoing works obstructed and delayed by cars and pedestrians. "Mr. Minister [Samuel Kofi Woods], block the road so you can get the work done! You can't be building the road and you have people ...
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NPA Boss Others Declare False Assets Says LACC
The Liberia anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) in its latest report on officials of government asset declaration has booked some public officials for what it described as intentional material misrepresentation and unexplained wealth accumulation while serving in government. Those hooked for the false declaration of assets are the Managing Director of the National Port Athority (NPA), her deputy, ...
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Land Commission Completes Validation Process - Submits Document to Executive Branch
The Land Commission established by an Act of the National Legislature on August 4, 2009 implementing a number of projects in consonance with its mandate and objectives, immediately following its launch, the commission has conducted consultations in all 15 counties, completed the land validation process and has submitted same to the Executive branch of the government for enactment into law. ...
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Senators Turn Back On Media
A communication sent by Maryland County Senior Senator John A. Ballout, calling Senators' attention and involvement in the saga between the Liberian media and the Director of the Executive Protective Service (EPS) was met with stiff resistance, with some Senators spewing very harsh comments at journalists, an indication also that they have turned their backs on the plight of the media. ...
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Grand Gedeans Plan Mass Demonstration - to Demand Trial of Detained Kinsmen
Several bullets disgorged from the nozzles of rustic guns near an Ivorian border town close to Liberia and the casualties were seven peace-keepers of the Nigerien Contingent of the United Nations Observatory Mission in Ivory Coast along with four Ivorian citizens, thus igniting a terrifying pugilistic-like cataclysm between Ivory Coast and Liberia, which took mature diplomatic maneuverings to ...
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Wash Establishes Strategic Committee in Bassa
Authorities of Grand Bassa County on Monday, May 20 commissioned a committee to assess issues affecting water, sanitation and hygiene in the county.mThe Grand Bassa Strategic WASH committee was established as the result of a tactical meeting held recently in the county by the United Youth for Peace, Education, Transparency and Development in Liberia with funding support from Wateraid. The ...
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Liberia Press Union of Liberia Position On the President Sirleafs Double Standard On Press Freedom in Liberia
Fellow Colleagues, Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, the events of the last 18 days have been well documented. On May 3, 2013, members of the Liberian media assembled in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County to observe World Press Freedom Day, a day declared by the United Nations to remind member states about the need for a free, independent and pluralistic media. But it was also to pay tribute to ...
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Alienated Liberians - a Comment
The New Democrat article on Thursday, May 9, 2013 carried an article called, "500,000 Liberians Alienated", caught my attention. After reading the article several times, I felt compelled to express my views on the issues raised. The first issue is about "Section 20, 1 (b) of the Nationality Law" which they have called unconstitutional and discriminative against Liberian ...
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Small Business Start-Up Tips and Warnings
Fourth, choose wisely. When choosing the person or people you're going to build the business with, be careful. Even if someone is your best friend, it doesn't mean that you will partner well in a business operation. Things to consider when choosing your co-leaders and support players include: Does the other person complement your weaknesses? Or do both of you bring only one set of the ...
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Youth Group Hails Unification Day Orator
A youth group, the Coalition of Youth & Students to Enhance Peace and Democracy in Liberia has admonished Liberians to be their "brother's keeper" instead of being community destroyers, making specific reference to a speech delivered by National Unification Day Orator T. Nelson Williams on May 14, 2013. In a statement issued in Monrovia on May 17, 2013, the group's ...
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Liberia Land Validation Confab Kicks-Off in Monrovia
A two-day National Validation Conference on land rights policy has begun in Monrovia with delegates coming from the 15counties of Liberia. Dubbed: "Know Your Land Rights", the conference, which began on Monday, May 20th, is expected to present a final Land Rights Policy to President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf today, Tuesday. Addressing delegates, Cecil T. O. Brandy, Chairman of the Land ...
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Liberia High Sodomy in Nimba Cells
Reports from Nimba County speak of increased practice of sodomy among inmates in prison. Reports further detailed that inmates are being pressurized to give themselves to be sodomized by fellow prisoners who have overstayed in cells. Like in other parts of the country, prisons in Nimba County are all over crowded; a situation that many believe is responsible for the practice among male inmates. ...
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Liberia Govt Publishes Landmark Resource Audit but Needs to Address Findings
Publication of a full audit of how Liberia awarded its resource concessions between 2009 and 2011 is a global first, said campaigning watchdog Global Witness today. ...
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Career Development Is a Challenge for Liberians
The President of the State Exchange Alumni Association of Liberia (SEAL) says career development remains a major challenge for Liberians especially young people. Philip Kollie said due to the lack of career guardians and education in various secondary schools in the country, many young people find themselves in state of confusion when they are enrolled in Tertiary institutions. Kollie said in ...
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Americo-Liberians The 17th Tribe of Liberia – Part I
Tribe of Liberia" is a two parts series. Part I will look at various sources such as the Bible, Greeks, Romans and Anglo-Saxon (English) cultures; and what Cultural Anthropologists say about tribe, before arriving at a working definition and all that encompasses tribe. One of my main reasons for writing this article is to make clear to those Liberians who are of the belief that any ...
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LTA Ends Consumers’ Parliament
The First Telecommunications Consumer Parliament organized by the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) has ended in Gbarnga, Bong County, following a one-day session with parliamentarians proffering several recommendations to improve the telecommunications sector in ...
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Liberian government publishes landmark resource audit but urgently needs to address findings
Publication of a full audit of how Liberia awarded its resource concessions between 2009 and 2011 is a global first, said campaigning watchdog Global Witness today. The audit, which was published last week, reveals significant violations of Liberia's laws that the government now urgently needs to address. The publication of the audit also helps set a new standard for implementation within ...
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Liberia gaining the world's attention for the right reasons
When members of the international community, and even many Africans themselves, think of Africa one of a few stereotypes come to mind; poverty, crime, corruption and political instability. Africa is seen as a haven for everything nefarious in the global community, terrorists are trained here, rebels attack their governments, drugs are grown in, and exported from, African soil and many African heads of state preside over a government whose authority does not extend beyond their capital city.
Liberia, not often in the international news for doing well, seems to be making a concerted effort to redress this trend, suggesting that a period of integrity may be ahead for the continent as a whole; South Africa is hosting the FIFA World Cup, Egypt is cooperating with the international community in opening up its border with Gaza and Liberia’s government is holding its own as an example of the far-reaching effects of good governance and rooting out corruption. Read more
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