Author: Lennart Dodoo

MONROVIA – A 78-year-old woman has filed an official complaint with the Professional Standard Division (PSD) of the Liberia National Police (LNP), accusing some officers and a civilian of manhandling and illegally incarcerating her for four days without food.

Gibi District – Margibi County District# 5 Representative Clarence G. Gahr’s second term bid has received a huge boost at the climax of several stakeholders’ meetings in rural Gibi District involving the august body of influential elders and opinion leaders who sought to give him the moral imprimatur to vie for the second term. The massage was familiar. But the basis was genuinely uncommon.

GRAND BASSA – The United Liberia Inland Church’s Gaye Peter Mission in Wee Statutory District was a scene of jubilation on Sunday, April 3, 2022 as scores of families, friends and supporters gathered to celebrate noticeably, the oldest man to have graduated from High School in the Grand Bassa district.

There is a lot of talk about the need for resources without the realization of what is the most important resource. Usually, the talk about resources points to financial and natural resources. Usually, the talk about resource shortage has to do with the lack of adequate financial resources. All of this talk about resources goes on without the realization that the most important resource is the human resource. When person A who has no record of commitment to doing good is given much money and person B who has a record of commitment to doing good is given little money,…

MONROVIA – From all indications, Liberia should have been the first beneficiary of uninterrupted electricity from the Ivory Coast through the TRANSCO CLSG transmission line. But what many may consider the lack of political will to perfect the agreement has made irrelevant the presence of five fully completed power substations in the country for the provision of cheap and stable electricity.

MONROVIA – President George Weah has nominated former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Toga Gayewea McIntosh, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf era, as the new chairman of the Good Governance Commission.

MONROVIA – High Power Explorations has termed as “fake” a document making rounds suggesting that the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Bhofal Chambers, received half a million from the company for “legislative engagements”.

MONROVIA – The Student Unification Party (SUP), a campus-based students’ movement at the University of Liberia has threatened unspecified actions if their demand for the renovation of the university’s campuses cannot be met by the university’s authority.

BUCHANAN – After a series of emotional statements, the Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit Court in Grand Bassa County on April 4 formally sentenced a man to 60 years in prison for the 2021 murder of a two-year-old girl.

In my article, I will be providing some facts about the strangulation of young Liberian Entrepreneurs and Businesses by the Freeport of Monrovia. James Markhan said “Don’t let taxes scare away future investors”. Is the Freeport of Monrovia scaring young Liberians who want to break out of poverty and lead a generation to prosperity? Read this paper and give me an answer.