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Monrovia – Making a presentation this week at a one-day workshop on transitional Justice Organized by Civitas Maxima, a Geneva-based organization which has been making headways in bringing justice to victims of war crimes, Veteran Human rights lawyer and former Solicitor General Cllr. Tiawon Gongloe said, justice is on the way for the scores of victims who lost their lives during the civil war.

On March 29, 2006, at about 5:00Pm I told the world press at the Roberts International Airport, speaking on behalf of the Liberian Government, as Solicitor General, that the arrest of Charles Taylor was the beginning of the end of impunity in Liberia. Following the trial and conviction of Mr. Taylor, we have begun to see the world arresting and putting on trial, some notorious perpetrators of world crimes during the fourteen-year civil conflict in Liberia.

Monrovia – All is not well on the high court bench. In the midst of a grueling saga to impeach one of its own, Liberia’s Supreme Court finds itself fighting an internal wrangle amid multiple reports of a long-running feud between the Chief Justice Francis Korkpor and one of his associates, Kabineh J’aneh amid suspicions over loyalty and whether the Chief Justice will hear a case from the legislative branch of government which disrespected the bench’s motion for prohibition filed against impeachment proceedings by the House of Representatives.

Monrovia –  Issues of “procedural error” since the commencement of Justice Kabineh Ja’neh’s impeachment proceedings began, have been raised by legal luminaries in and out of the Legislature.

Monrovia – In the wake of increasing calls for the establishment of a war crimes court in Liberia, the House of Representatives has embarked on holding public hearings with major interest groups on the matter.

Monrovia – The first National Scientific Conference, named in honor of professor emeritus, and former president of the University of Liberia, Dr. Emmet A. Dennis has ended in Monrovia, with a call for young people to develop the interest in scientific research. The conference which lasted for three days, August 27-29, 2018 was convened under the theme: “Fostering the Culture of Evidence-Based Public Health Practice and Research in Liberia”. It was organized by the National Public Health Institute of Liberia and partners.

Monrovia – Darious Wilson, the main murder suspect of officer Moses Bedell of the Liberia National Police, has been found guilty with the crime of murder and has been sentenced to prison for 25 years.

Harbel – Board Members of Harbel College in Lower Margibi County were on Thursday, August 30, chased out of the campus premises by aggrieved students. Before they had fled, the board members had been held hostage for over three hours.

Monrovia – An audit aimed at creating awareness on Liberia’s coastal and marine management has been conducted by Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) and the General Auditing Commission.

Monrovia – The British charity WaterAid has launched a sanitation project aimed at addressing issues of solid waste management in Greater Monrovia and environs.