Author: Contributing Writer

Dear Mr. President Greetings: In the spirit of national cohesiveness, genuine love and patriotism, I do appreciate the Government of Liberia for the preliminary step of public awareness regarding preventive measures necessary for the extermination of the novel COVID-19 pandemic. That being said, I feel conscientiously obliged to bring to your attention an impractical regulation instituted by your govt to place an injunction on poor Liberian sellers from selling in street corners of infested counties, and the demolition of structures (market kitchens) used by petty Liberian traders to sell their commodities, which occurred most recently in Monrovia. While I do…

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The next time that you say ‘Let justice be done to all men,’ or when you portray Lady Justice as a blindfolded goddess that does not see colors, or genders, or economic status, etc, take a moment and think about the countless cases of untold stories of human indignations. Remember that the earliest Roman coins describing justice was much different from the symbol of scale and blindfold that exists today, the older coin actually portrayed Justitia (justice) without any hypocrisy, standing with her sword in the one hand and her scale in the other hand, but that symbol stood with…

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MONROVIA – Rider for Health Liberia, an international non-governmental organization that was established in Liberia in February 2015 in response to the Ebola outbreak, has called on the government and developmental partners to provide more assistance to ensure accurate health sample delivery system across the 15 counties.

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The Editor, On January 28, 2019, His Excellency, Dr. George Manneh Weah, was celebrated by Liberians in the Diaspora, when he called on, in his second Annual Message to the second sitting of the 54th Legislature, members of the honorable body to pass the “Dual Citizenship Bill” citing it as having “significant implications for the achievement of the country’s pro-poor agenda for national renewal (Liberian Observer, 2019).” One cannot help but wonder, is the President being wrongly advised on his nomination of a Nigerian-born naturalized citizen to Head an Autonomous Agency when we have a law passed by the 54th…

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