Author: Editorial Board

Dear Readers, For more than a century, history has been unkind to oppressors of free speech and so-called powerful men who in their prime, once had access to the ears of powerful rulers, dictators and presidents.

ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, President George Manneh Weah exercised one of his powers by reshuffling and making additional appointments in his Cabinet. At least 22 government entities, including the Ministry of National Defense, were affected by the President’s new appointments. AMONGST THE names mentioned by the President is one noticeable for the subject of this editorial. Mr. Tarplah Z. Davies alias Zoely Zoe was appointed as Deputy Minister for Operations at the Ministry of National Defense. Davies’ appointment is subject to confirmation by the Liberian Senate. This means the ‘people’s representatives’ in the Senate can reject him or can endorse…

YESTERDAY, OCTOBER 17, the spokesman of the Liberia National Police (LNP) attempted to provide what he thinks was clarity on Tuesday, October 15 Monrovia Consolidated School System’s student peaceful protest, which later degenerated into chaotic scenes around Central Monrovia. SPOKESMAN MOSES CARTER, who tried to be very forceful to drive home his points, didn’t only make the LNP more uglier in the eye of the public but also did attempt to make all the officers of the police infallible. CARTER LAVISHED praises on the LNP under the leadership of Inspector General Patrick T. Sudue for being “professional in the discharge…

IF REPRESENTATIVE Acarous Moses Gray(CDC, District No. 8, Montserrado County) had his way, the head of the Monrovia Consolidated School System would be out of a job. Not because he failed to pay teachers, in whose interest students took to the street Wednesday, but because, in Rep. Gray’s world, Superintendent Adolphus Benjamin Jacob is one of the so-called “unpatriotic” “haters” in the government’s midst, sparking chaos and protests against President George Manne Weah.

ARTICLE 17 of the Liberian constitution guarantees the right of all Liberians to peaceful assembly. “All persons, at all times, in an orderly and peaceable manner, shall have the right to assemble and consult upon the common good, to instruct their representatives, to petition the government or other functionaries for the redress of grievances and to associate fully with others or refuse to associate in political parties, trade unions and other organizations.” IN THE PAST FEW weeks, more and more Liberians have taken matters into their own hands, gathering at assembly points in fulfillment of their constitutional right to protest.…

WITHIN STRIKING DISTANCE of a place in the 2002 World Cup in South Korea, Liberia’s Lone Star needed just a draw on its home soil against its next-door neighbors Ghana, to book its first World Cup berth. 

FOR MONTHS now, murmurs of strains within the Collaboration of Political Parties have been in the air, dampening the hopes of many who hailed the February 21st collaborative efforts of four political parties – the former ruling Unity Party, Liberty Party, Alternative National Congress All Liberia Party, as a break from the past efforts that failed to get off the ground.

DEAR GOVERNMENT of Liberia, YOU HAVE IN MANY ways shown a high level of insincerity in most of what you do, but what we, as a media entity, consider extreme is the shutting down of Roots FM because of what you consider hate speech. ARE YOU TOO naive to know that the radio dtations does not commit crime? Or is it that you’re incapacitated to deal with the real issue? WE ARE NOT only disappointed, but also very much concerned. We are concerned because we find ourselves in the same line of work and ours is key to the sustenance…

LAST WEEK, MORE than fifty members of the lower house of the national legislature submitted a resolution on the floor of the 54th body advocating for a war and Economic Crimes Court for Liberia.

LIBERIANS HAVE LONG been consumed with an urge demanding their leaders to step down. DURING THE 1980’s, many upset with the dictatorial tendencies of Samuel Kanyon Doe, who had shredded his military uniform for civilian clothes did all they could to get rid of Doe. Multiple Coup d’etats, alleged assassination attempts finally climaxed into a bloody civil war on Christmas Eve of 1989. DOE WOULD DIE a year later at the hands of one of his nemesis, Prince Y. Johnson, head of the breakaway National Patriotic Front of Liberia, his ears chopped off, as he labored in pain, refusing to…