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THE SECRET IS FINALLY OUT. The signed Memorandum of Understanding of the controversial Singapore loan agreement that the George Weah-led government did not want Liberians to see is finally in the public domain. JUST AS WE HAVE BEEN reporting and others have voiced their concerns, scrutiny of the document is raising more questions and creating more complications for Liberia’s immediate political and economic future. THROUGHOUT LIBERIA’S history bad governance has paved the way for much of the country’s problems. AS FAR BACK AS the 1800s during the reign of Edward James Roye, Africa’s oldest republic has been dogged by questionable…

Gbarnga, Bong County – Left without an option, about 3,000 students of a government-run elementary school in Gbarnga, Bong County, are forced under leaking roofs to attend classes.

Report by Kennedy L. Yangian, [email protected] Monrovia – The Criminal Court ‘C’ at the Temple of Justice is yet to adjudicate at least 156 cases, which some describe as “very high.”

Report by Bettie Johnson-Mbayo, [email protected] Nimba County – In order to generate revenue to sustain itself, Liberia’s second largest referral hospital, Jackson Fiah Doe Memorial Regional Referral Hospital in Nimba County, is now planting cocoa and oil palm.

Monrovia – The Chief Executive Officer and Chairperson of the Global Environmental Facility, (Gef) Noako Ishii told Sime Darby Plantation Liberia that she was impressed about their operations in the country.

Report by Willie N. Tokpah, [email protected] Monrovia – United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has signed a US$80,000 agreement with the National Union of Community Forestry Development Committees (NUCFDC) to strengthen the capacity of communities to effectively monitor the benefits of commercial logging in Liberia.

Report by J. H. Webster Clayeh, [email protected] Monrovia – A Liberian historian, Dr. Carl Patrick Burrowes, has revealed the history of Liberia before 1800 in his new book, “Between the Kola Forest and the Salty Sea.”

Report by Mae Azango, [email protected] Kakata, Margibi County – Senator Dallas A. Gueh of the Senate Committee on Education has said that the nation’s educational system needs a resurrection and that all education stakeholders need to put hands on deck to achieve this revival.

Report by Alpha Daffae.Senkpeni, [email protected] Congo Town – The Township of Congotown, located between Monrovia and Paynesville cities, is enduring constraints as the Monrovia City Corporation is claiming to be the legitimate authority to levy and collect taxes in the town.

Report by Edwin G. Genoway, Jr. [email protected] Monrovia – The National Treasurer of the Association of Liberian Construction Contractors (ALCC), Kimberly Kpan Toure is a Liberian woman chosen among women from across the world to attend a conference in Germany.