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MONROVIA – Amid the COVID19 pandemic devastation, the Liberian community in Sweden have embarked on a fundraising effort to donate rice to Liberian nurses at three of Liberia’s major hospitals.

Monrovia – Former Minister of Education and Grand Kru County senatorial aspirant, George K. Werner, has made good his promise of L$500,000 to cover tuition owed by graduated teachers of LICOSES Teachers Training College, according to a statement from the institution’s chief administrator, Joseph Wehye.

The 50-year-old pastor is the Founder and General Overseer of the Community Revival Church located in Logan Town and Jamaica Road Community MONROVIA – The Founder and General Overseer of the Community Revival Church located between Logan Town and Jamaica Road Community has been arrested and charged for rape.

Monrovia – The book, Forensic Accounting Analytics and Pension Fund Administration: A Study of Selected Administrators in Liberia, is the first of its kind in our country, Liberia. The release of this highly loaded book is a true representation that Liberians are getting more and more interested in writing and teaching the next generation of leaders.

Traditional/indigenous leadership is still relevant as a trusted institution for governance by the majority of Africans. They still play an integral role in the governance system on the continent and as such they should not be silence. There is still hope for Africa to change the narrative.    Prinston anthony sieh moosh Nimene, Contributing Writer, [email protected] The Scramble for Africa as a result of the Berlin Conference between 1884 to the early twentieth century was the worst disaster to have ever happened to Africa, and it was a crime against humanity. It began 1884 with the Berlin Conference and ended…

The former Education Minister backed up findings from a three year study conducted by two American independent research bodies, that showed the Liberian Education Advancement Program – has increased learning outcomes significantly. Like in 2016 when the Government of Liberia designed a public-private partnership (now the Liberia Education Advancement Program – LEAP) with Bridge Liberia, U-Movement, Street Child and Rising Academies and other non-state providers to run public schools, disagreements, and criticisms from some legislators and civil society have continued to this day. Recently, an education coalition and the National Teachers Association of Liberia (NTAL) renewed the usual critiques after…

James Monroe, after whom the capital, Monrovia, of the new republic Liberia, is named, was a staunch supporter of the movement to send Blacks to Africa.  Dear Fellow Citizens:It’s with profound and renewed vigor I write this plea. I am both honored and ashamed to confess the sins of our founding ancestors and us – their living descendants!

The sum of  US $1.8 million is a lot of money in Liberia. It could build two miles of paved road, many schools and health centers, provide textbooks and medicine across Liberia. It could provide electricity to JFK hospital and JFD hospital for a year. Monrovia – In the past two weeks, claims and counter-claims have been voiced regarding an amount that was supposed to be paid to the World Food Program to distribute food to Liberians who may be facing economic hardship because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The author, Tee Wonakay, Executive Director, FOHRD On December 5th 1994, the United States, the Russian Federation, and the United Kingdom, along with China and France in a separate document, signed the now infamous “Budapest Memorandum”, the document was supposed to be an assurance to Ukraine that if it acknowledged the non-nuclear proliferation treaty and gives up its nuclear materials, then those world powers will guarantee its (Ukraine’s) national security protection, and thus it wouldn’t have to worry about foreign invasion.

Racism did not exist as a social construct and action prior to slavery and colonization. Racial differences did not become an issue until colonizers sought a justification for their subjection of Africa. It started with the transatlantic slave trade. Last week I posted something on the linkages between racism, colonialism, and slavery and few people asked me to elaborate. My post was related to murder of George Floyd, the protests, and discussions on de-funding the police. Police brutality is an instrument of racist policies, instituted to protect a certain status quo, a world order, that rationalized the domination and exploitation…