Author: FPA Staff Reporter

Monrovia – President Johnson Sirleaf has applauded the determination, commitment and professionalism with which the Incident Management Team (IMS) cum Ministry of Health has demonstrated Liberia’s proven capacity to effectively and efficiently manage the recent EVD resurgence and other related outbreaks in the country.

Monrovia – The Special Representative of the President of ECOWAS in Liberia, Ambassador Tunde Ajisomo, has made several recommendations aimed at creating ownership of the electoral process in Liberia.

Monrovia – At least 100 children received their regular free meals on Gurley Street in Monrovia last Saturday, provided by Florence Bracewell Lardner Children Foundation (FBLCF).

April 12, 1980, brought the bloody bursting of Liberia’s longest span of unbroken peace. Outright war was stayed; but, unlike in Apartheid South Africa, with which Liberia was often compared; inappropriately, because Liberia had no Mandela, the long predicted explosion did occur, dispersing Liberians throughout their homeland, West Africa and beyond. Wherever they found themselves, many groped at ways of saving their only country. But injustice, not the absence of peace had caused the coup.

For some time now, discussions have been centered on the Government of Liberia’s decentralization policy, the education sector being no exception.

Monrovia – When lawyers representing Christopher Neyor, President and Chief Executive officer of  Morweh Energy Group, a Liberian owned corporate entity filed a lawsuit against Luckinton Investments Limited and African Petroleum Limited represented by Frank Timis based in London, the United Kingdom, little did they know that Mr. Timis has been running a fleeting of ‘floating  or paper tiger offices’ in Liberia that only exist on papers and websites, thus making it difficult to be served with court precepts.

Monrovia – The Liberian Business Association (LIBA), which represents the private sector on the National Governing Council (NGC) of the African Peer Review Mechanism Liberia Country Program (APRM-LCP), has formally withdrawn from the process.

Monrovia – The Government of Liberia in July, 2013 indicted Ellen Corkrum who while serving as head of the Liberia Airport Authority left the country secretly and later released strings of recordings linking senior government officials to alleged corruption.

Monrovia -Today April 14 marks an important day in Liberia’s history. Thirty-seven years after the bloody rice riot in 1979 that subsequently led to the coup in 1980.

Monrovia –  Since George Werner took over at the Ministry of Education, his proposals to quick fix the educational system which was termed a mess President Sirleaf, he has never fallen short of controversy.