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Monrovia – Miss Liberia Wokie Dolo has launched her flagship clean-up campaign program styled ‘Liberians for Clean Liberia’, to educate Liberians on proper waste management and the environmental impact of illegal dumping of waste. The campaign, which was launched on Saturday July 6 in the densely populated Duala Market, is intended to encourage Liberians to take responsibility as citizens irrespective of their status, to keep their community and street clean and to stop the illegal dumping of dirty on the street. During the launch of the campaign, Ms. Dolo and her team of volunteers shared lessons on proper waste management…

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Vallai Dorley On a very serious note, salary harmonization is good but it should take into consideration analysis of ‘ALL JOBS’ in the public sector. This shouldn’t be only about  salaries;  there are some positions that are overlapping need to be harmonized also. For instance, if we have a unit at the Ministry of Transport called ‘ROAD, LAND and RAIL’ with a Director of ROAD, Director of LAND and Director of RAIL. We can harmonize by calling such Unit ‘Technical Infrastructure Unit’ with one Principal Director heading it.  In the exercise of harmonization, the allotment of salaries and positions should constitute:…

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n 2016, Liberia – one of the poorest countries in the world – embarked upon the world’s most innovative Public Private Partnership in education. Its government was determined to improve learning outcomes for children. Now three years in, it’s time to revisit whether the dramatic learning gains for students in the Partnership Schools for Liberia’s (PSL) first year have been sustained. If so, it would be a strong indication that the Liberian Ministry of Education is on the right track with its reform program “Getting to Best.” Researchers showed initial learning gains equivalent to 60% more learning for PSL overall,…

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MONROVIA – According to reliable sources within the administrative hierarchy of Coca Cola Liberia, the soft drink giant is set to shut down its operations in Liberia in the very near future. A source who spoke under the condition of anonymity said discussions have started with workers and distributors. The Coca Cola plant has been a fixture in Monrovia for decades and never shut down even during the civil war. The closure is said to be caused by the deepening economic situation. “Because of the inflation, the price of soft drinks has multiplied by 5, putting it out of range…

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Monrovia – BuddeComm’s Telecoms Maturity Index is trumpeting Mauritius as the leader of the telecoms market in Africa followed by Ghana and Tunisia. The year’s new ranking shows Algeria and South Africa are now in the top three with some red flags regarding operations of the sector in Liberia.

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Personally, last night (7-July-2019) was not a good period for my family and I am not in a good frame of mind but thanks to God. My wife and I received a call that an elderly friend who has assisted in doing some minor works for us was hit by a car when the car skidded off the road on the Marshall Road and went into the makeshift house killing a girl of age 6 instantly and severely wounding the guy. The driver fled from the vehicle and escaped the scene leaving the vehicle behind. He was pulled from under…

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