Author: Edwin Genoway, Jr.

MONROVIA – Liberia has launched its first of its kind in Africa Cultural competition that will showcase Liberian culture from the 15 counties. The show will attract participants from the 15 counties in a cultural village for five weeks to showcase the culture of the various counties on a live television network on SATCOM.

MONROVIA – Just two days after members of the opposition bloc staged a rally against the government, President George Weah received a rousing welcome from a multitude of supporters despite being heavily criticized for being out of the country for more than a month. Thousands of Liberians on Monday turnout at the Roberts International Airport (RIA) to welcome and escort President Weah to the Coalition for Democratic Change headquarters.

MONROVIA – Residents of Nimba and Grand Gedeh Counties have called for a peaceful and united region. The people of both counties say they feel stigmatized and stereotyped, with many describing them as troublemakers in Liberia. Both counties have agreed to move forward and trash out existing bitterness between them.

Monrovia –The Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of Liberia, Maj/Gen. Prince C. Johnson III Tuesday warned that the Army will be put on alert for possible misconduct during the 2023 legislative and presidential elections, warning that persons arrested will face the full brunt of the law. He said the Army will not hesitate to help the Liberia National Police whenever there’s any tension from a group of people who will take the law into their hands.

Monrovia – The National Elections Commission (NEC) has with immediate effect postponed the Voter’s Registration process that was previously set for December 15, 2022, a statement from the NEC has revealed. The postponement comes barely weeks after the NEC sent a request for “No Objection” to Liberia’s Public Procurement and Concession Commission (PPCC), to award a contract to Laxton Groups for the use of a Biometric Voter-Identification system to prevent electoral fraud and chaos during the 2023 legislative and presidential elections.

MONROVIA – AMI Groups in Liberia has donated to the Ministry of Education and the National Commission on Higher Education (NCHE) the sum of US$210, 000 to help Liberia students through scholarship. AMI has not suggested to the Ministry and NCHE on how to use the money, but hoped that the fund benefits students directly in their academic sojourn.

MONROVIA – Cllr. Charlyne Brumskine says she has received numerous threats from members of the Liberty Party since she declared her intention to the chairman of the party, Musa Bility, to contest the District 3 seat, Grand Bassa County on the party’s ticket. She said the threats are coming in because of her recognition of Mr. Bility as the chairman of the party and Martin Kollah to whom her expression of intent was addressed.

Monrovia – The project director at the National Investment Commission has debunked allegations from his former wife, labelling him as a wife beater. Speaking at a news conference this week, Mr. Andrew Anderson declared that his former spouse is lying on his name. “I am not a brutal man. The picture that she is running around with on social media is flawed because it wasn’t me who laid hands on her. It was one of her ex-boyfriends who caught her with another boyfriend, and he beat her, it’s not me, the picture is old,” Anderson lamented.Madam Loraine Dunn-Anderson recently took…

MONROVIA – Liberia’s former Vice President, Joseph Nyema Boakai has placed the development of Liberia on the shoulders of young people with the skills of Technical and Vocational Education and Training.

MONROVIA – As part of its corporate social responsibility, the Insurance Company of Africa (ICA) has awarded scholarships to the two best performing female students from William V.S. Tubman High and G. W Gibson High School, respectively. Both Mamaka Kromah of G. W Gibson and Loretha Larmie of Tubman High were selected from their various schools by their various schools as best performing students with the highest averages, respectively.