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Kakata, Margibi County – The Booker Washington Institute Workers Union (BOWIWU) has announced a go-slow action beginning Thursday, June 13, in demand of President George Manneh Weah final determination on the dismissal of the institute’s Principal, Harris Fumba Tarnue.

Monrovia – The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection with support from the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality, UN Women, on Tuesday held a one-day National Awareness & Validation of Beijing Platform Action Report.

Monrovia – Liberia Elections Observation Network, LEON, says it has been monitoring the Facebook accounts and statements in the news, of 42 organizations, government institutions and key individuals from May 1 to May 31, noting incidents of hate speech, incitement to violence, or which posts called for peace. 

News Castle, Delaware – The Association of Liberian Journalists in the Americas says the massive turn-out of Liberians on June 7, 2019, in response to the Council of Patriots’(COP) street protests dubbed, Save the State, orchestrated against President Weah and the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) led government’s woeful governance of Liberia, manifests that all is not well in the country politically and economically.

MONROVIA – The National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA), in partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Liberia and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) on Tuesday, June 11, 2019 commenced a two-day national stakeholder workshop in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County on developing a disaster risk assessment and national risk reduction strategy for Liberia.

MONROVIA – The finale of the much-anticipated Orange Fashion Talent has taken place in Monrovia at the TM Mall in Mamba Point on the 1st of June.    The event which was launched earlier this year brought together close to 70 participants who all went through several elimination rounds starting with the kickoff on March 30th. Speaking at a special post-event press conference to formally present prizes to the winners, the Fashion Talent Organizer Mrs. Courage Sackie thanked Orange for making the event a successful one.

MONROVIA — GROW Liberia, in collaboration with the National Investment Commission, is hosting an investment summit on June 19 to showcase Liberia’s emergence as a burgeoning hub for Ribbed Smoked Sheets rubber processing in West Africa. 

MONROVIA – The Chairman of the four opposition collaborating political parties, Mr. Benoni Urey, has warned the government of Liberia to leave Montserrado County District #10 Representative Kolubah alone.

IMF Executive Board Members WASHINGTON D.C. -On May 31, 2019, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Liberia. Liberia remains a fragile, post-conflict country with weak capacity and limited physical and human capital accumulation. External assistance to Liberia is winding down from its peak in 2016. To address pressing needs, the government launched its Pro-Poor Agenda for Prosperity and Development (PAPD), focusing on physical and human capital accumulation. Policy uncertainty and slippages, however, imposed a significant toll on the economy over the past two years. Particularly, higher fiscal deficits and accommodative monetary policy…

LAST MONTH, President George Manneh Weah relieved Solicitor General, Daku Mulbah of his post and brought in Cllr. Sayma Syrenius Cephas, previously the Deputy Minister-Regional Development at the Ministry of Agriculture and the Legal Counsel of the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change as his replacement.