Author: Editorial Board

GOING BY THE WAY Liberian politicians have carried out their campaigns lately, it is hard to not conclude that Liberian politics – and, in turn, both public office and public service have become ‘financialized’.

PRESIDENT GEORGE WEAH’S appointment of Darlington Karnely as Managing Director of the Liberia Airport Authority has set off a firestorm of condemnation, with critics characterizing the nomination as overwhelmingly lopsided, lacking the requisite credentials to manage an entity that has been in the news for all the wrong reasons in recent weeks.

ON WEDNESDAY, the Mayor of Monrovia, Jefferson Tamba Koijee, would be speaking to journalists across Liberia on the Theme: “Journalism Under Digital Siege” as part of the commemoration of this year’s World Press Freedom Day.

PRESIDENT GEORGE WEAH has been quiet for far too long. Too many things are unfolding around him, too many things are falling apart and no one in the president’s inner circle has the gravitas to tell him to wake up! Had SN Brussels crashed Wednesday night due to yet another lighting incident at the Roberts International Airport, it would have been hell to pay – and a lot of blood would have been on the President’s hands.

DURING THE REIGN of former President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the government of the renowned Turkish dictator, President Tayyip Erdogan, made an unusual request to have Turkish nationals teaching at the Liberia Turkish International deported and the schools shut down.

WHEN PRINCESS COOPER’S family issued a statement two weeks ago questioning the Liberia National Police’s initial ‘No Foul Play’ report, they probably preempted what the autopsy report by the Liberian government would suggest.

IT’S ALMOST FIVE years into George Weah’s presidency, public trust in the Liberian government appears to be in decline alongside a growing perception of lacking political inclusion.

THIS FRIDAY, being the second Friday in April, Liberia would observe a National Fast and Prayer – a ritual that is observed nationally every year. As part of the ritual, President Weah has issued a proclamation in consonance with an Act of the National Legislature passed into law in 1883 declaring the second Friday in April of each year as “National Fast and Prayer Day” for the safety and welfare of the Nation and its people with penitent reverence to God.

IN RECENT weeks, two senior high-profile members of the Biden administration have delivered a clear-cut message to President Georgia Weah and his government: Corruption is at the core of government lapses and killing the democracy.

LIBERIA IS FAST gaining notoriety as a country of ritualists with stories of mysterious deaths daily reported in the traditional and social media.