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By Professor Michael M. Wiles, Cuttington Graduate School  In its Tuesday, December 11, 2018 edition, the FrontPage Africa (FPA) published a story under the heading “Stabilizing Telecommunications Cost?: Liberia Telecommunications Authority Seeking to End Price War in Telecommunications Industry.” In the story, FPA quoted the LTA as indicating that to end the price war between our two Telecommunication companies, it was invoking the Telecommunications Law of 2012 which forbids telecom companies from selling below their cost of doing business. Based on this 2012 Law, LTA has given justification for intervention in to what it considered as GSM “price war.” However, we…

By Caesar R. Morris, [email protected], Contributor MONROVIA – We appreciate President Weah for such positive step. We believed that this is a positive step to the sustainable development of Liberia. If manage well, this initiative will have a national impact across SME’s and the government of Liberia. The private sector is the engine of growth and we all know what that means; the private sector don’t just run business; it create businesses and jobs that contribute in taxs to the government for economic development. So, the government of Liberia should consider private sector development a priority for the fact that…

Monrovia – Vice President Chief Dr. Jewel Howard-Taylor has been telling kids about the importance of Christmas and the impact it should have on them as they grow up. VP Howard-Taylor was lecturing the kids at a Christmas Party she hosting for hundreds of kids at her residence in Monrovia on Christmas Day. Christmas, Chief Howard-Taylor told the curious and excited children, is a day set aside for Christians to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ. She said humankind was lost and in God’s mercy and compassion sent his Son to die on redemption of the human race. She stressed…

Monrovia – The Leadership of the Press Union of Liberia has immediate effect suspended the membership of Liberia’s Information Minister Len Eugene Nagbe with the organization for rowdy behavior. The move to suspend comes after Minister Nagbe termed the PUL a useless entity during a Christmas Day talk show appearance (December 25, 2018) in Monrovia. The Minister who worked as a journalist up to the infamous Taylor Era had appeared to discuss the current case of the government handling of the media along Journalists Rodney Sieh and Frank Sanworla. Ministers of Information are often given honorary membership of the Union…

MONROVIA – This is nothing common in politics in Africa least to say the Liberian political landscape. It is described as “witch hunt” for new governments to call for  audit of its predecessors in African Politics. Henry Karmo [email protected] Mr. Wilmot Paye, former Chairman of the immediate past ruling political party, Unity Party (UP), has taken the bull by the head by calling for an audit of a government his party ran for 12 years. It is of no secret that the relationship between Chairman Paye and his former UP standard bearer, former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was not all…

Monrovia – Glamorous Girls of Delaware Valley in the United States of America has cash donation to a number of baby mothers, who were at the Redemption Hospital in New Kru Town and the ELWA Hospital in Paynesville City. Report by Bettie K. Johnson-Mbayo, [email protected] The donations began at the ELWA Hospital and later at Redemption where baby mothers, aging women, and the Pediatric Department benefited. According to Rachel Pyne Quiah, an executive of the group of Liberian women, improving mothers’ welfare is their aim because of the role women play in society. The group is a social group, which…

Bomi – Children at Omega Children Welfare Foundation in Malema Town, Bomi County, were buzzing with smiles when Best Sisters International (BSI) donated several assorted materials to them as a way of celebrating the Christmas Season. Report by Bettie K. Johnson-Mbayo, [email protected] The US-based non-for-profit humanitarian organization group is made of 32 potential women, who are aimed at providing human and material assistance to less fortunate people, mainly children in Liberia. Madam Musunamah Massaquoi Saye, outgoing president, said the organization at first was initially a social club in 2005 but later expanded to a humanitarian organization in 2015. According to…

Monrovia – Angeline and Gabriel Nyanti could not make their vacation trip to Ghana when the tickets they had allegedly purchased from L’Aphie Travels and Tours bounced on the counter at the airport. Report by Bettie K. Johnson-Mbayo, [email protected] The couple purchased their tickets on October 25, 2018, and was scheduled to travel on December 22, 2018 but upon their arrival at the Roberts International Airport (RIA), the couple was told that they were not booked for the flight. “During the regular check-in exercises at the airport, we were told our booking reference is non-existent. Immediately, I phoned them, but…

MONROVIA – One of Liberia’s veteran Geologists, and Professor of Geology at the University of Liberia, Dr. Eugene H. Shannon has revealed that his book has been completed and is expected to be launch in early January 2019. The Book entitled, “Safeguarding the Environment in Mining Development Projects” was show-cased recently during the celebration of the University of Liberia Faculty Association (ULFA) Day. He informed his colleagues and the public that, “Safeguarding the Environment in Mining Development”, gives a description of the role the extractive industry plays in the economic sector of most developing countries. “It also describes the activities…

New Castle, Delaware – The Association of Liberian Journalists in the Americas (ALJA) says the recent wave of threats made against the Liberian media, especially the independent FrontPageAfrica (FPA) Newspaper by some senior officials of the ruling Coalition of Democratic Change (CDC) are unfortunate developments in the political governance of the country. ALJA cited the pronouncements by Liberia’s Finance and Development Planning Minister, Samuel Tweah, that he would weaponize crusaders of the CDC to deal with what he calls “mistruth and falsehood” in the media, mainly FrontPageAfrica; and the Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, Nathaniel McGill, characterization of the…