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MONROVIA – President George Manneh Weah has signed into law three major Acts of the Legislature, including an Act to name the Bali Island and the Mohatma Gandhi Convention Center. The purpose of the Bali Island Act is to officially name a specific parcel of the land Bali Island and a proposed convention center as the Mahatma Gandhi Convention Center. The other two Acts passed by the 54th Legislature and signed by President Weah are the “Act to Amend the Revenue Code of Liberia, A.D. 2000, as amended by the Consolidated Tax Amendment Act of 2011 to Reform Excise Tax…

Internews’ Liberia Media Development Chief of Party, Jan McArthur talks about the partnership with Daily Talk as Mr. Sirleaf looks on.   Monrovia – US Ambassador to Liberia Christian Elder on Monday declared herself a “big fan” of the Daily Talk chalkboard newspaper while assuring her support to the media outlet. Ambassador Elder expressed her gratitude to the Daily Talk team for their outstanding work over the years. “If this needs to be rebuilt a hundred times, we will do it a hundred times. We see tremendous value in what you do and how you do it,” she said at…

Sanniquellie, Nimba County – President George Manneh Weah Sunday, December 16, 2018 officially declared open the 2018-2019 edition of the National County Meet in Sanniquellie, Nimba County, as he took the kickoff and encouraged participants and all Liberians to see the games as a unifying force and promoter of peace in the country. The President urged participating teams to show discipline and sportsmanship as they compete for titles during the prestigious national tournament. He also called on all Liberians to use the event, which is held annually, to come together in the spirit of national unity and peace. “I am…

NHA Acting MD, Madam Tonia D. Johnson stresses the need for Buildal to work with the NHA  MONROVIA – The Acting Managing Director of the National Housing Authority (NHA), Madam Tonia D.  Johnson will lead a team, including representative from Buildal Construction from Turkey to tour NHA construction sites in Brewerville and on Robertsfield Highway respectively. Buildal Construction, according to its chairman and director general, Kamber Cifci, may be interested to build 30,000 affordable housing units in and around Liberia in line with President George Manneh Weah’s pro poor agenda to provide affordable housing units for the Liberian poor. According…

MONROVIA – Commissioner General Thomas Doe Nah Monday described the implementation of the Domestic Resource Mobilization Strategy (DRM) as very fundamental to the transformation of Liberia.  “We at the LRA take this strategy very seriously, especially as we strive to expand the revenue base of our country,” CG Nah noted when he addressed the opening of a two-day stakeholders’ gathering on the implementation of the document. He said the DRM Strategy also serves as a key pillar of the government’s Pro Poor Agenda for Development and Prosperity (PADP) and, as such, must be immensely supported by all participating stakeholders and…

Nairobi – One of the Liberian Ministry for Educations’ LEAP partners – Bridge – has achieved impressive results in the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exams released last month; for the fourth consecutive year. The results support the findings of the Liberian study released last autumn where Bridge was found to have increased learning by 100% in the LEAP (previously PSL) programme. In Kenya, over a million children took the KCPE exam and for the first time there was no passing or failing. Following sweeping policy changes, all children are now eligible to attend secondary school. The KCPE score…

By Moses Uneh Yahmia, [email protected], Contributing Writer A tragedy worthy of the pen of Shakespeare is in full cycle in the homeland. The backward drift of leadership to Weah as a result of the chicanery of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is defiling the homeland and leaving no sector untouched without the clay of backwardness. But this is not at all strange to left activists of the homeland, as we hold the view that once the society has drifted into the abyss with George M. Weah epitomizing such trend, all other sectors will be contaminated with such stench. This is the case when…

SINCE JANUARY when the George Weah-led government was inaugurated, the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning has made an unwritten policy of declaring advertising debts incurred from the era of the previous government headed by President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf as bad debts which the MoF has refused to pay. THE REVELATION BY FrontPageAfrica today, showing the ministry’s payment of US$182,000.00 to Rocktown Tools and Equipment Corporation of New York, USA as a result of court orders for debt owed them by the Ministry of State for the supply of items for the Charles Taylor government shows a double standard on the…

Monrovia – It was a pitiful moment when the mother of Vivian Wreh,15, saw her daughter’s naked body lying in the sand. The teen ager was reportedly gang-raped by unknown men the night before. Report by Bettie K. Johnson-Mbayo, [email protected] Vivian had gone out with friends for a party but she did not return on Thursday until her body was seen on early Friday morning, according to her mother Cameil Moore. Moore said officers of Liberia National Police told her that her daughter was gang-raped in her anus and vagina. Vivian was known as a blissful person, according to her…

Dowdow, Kolahun District – At the tail end of an elaborate observation of the 16 days of activism, with a recommitment from government, local and international NGOs to end all forms of violence against women, cases of gender-based violence especially in rural Liberia clearly show that defeating this menace is a mammoth task that needs to be tackled holistically. Report by: Arthur Kowah, FPA Contributor ;  [email protected]  The recent gruesome rape of a 18-year-old girl in Lofa county is the latest incident that has eclipsed the just ended 16 days of Activism in the county. Korpo (not her real name)…