Author: Henry Karmo

Monrovia – President George Weah is currently chairing a meeting with members of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) Governing Council. This Council came into existence in 2017 after three political parties formed a coalition — CDC — which won the 2017 General and Presidential Elections and made George Weah ascend to the nation’s Presidency. The parties in the Coalition include Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) of the current President, National Patriotic Party (NPP) of former President Charles Taylor and Liberia People’s Democratic Party (LPDP) of former House Speaker Alex Tyler. The Governing Council are all members of the Executive…

Monrovia – The Institute for Research and Democratic Development (IREDD) has released its quarterly legislative performance cataloging the performances of lawmakers for the period in review.

Monrovia – Mr. Isaac Redd, Director of Press at the House of Representatives, has broken silence over what he called lip-service shown staffers of the House by the leadership of Speaker Bhofal Chambers.

MONROVIA – Senator Gbleh-Bo Brown of Maryland County believes that other Supreme Court Justices still on the Court’s Bench and who along with impeached Justice Kabineh M. Ja’neh, signed onto the road fund petition, should also be removed from offices, too.

Senator Conmany Wisseh of River Gee County Monrovia – Senator Conmany Wesseh of River Gee County Tuesday, April 2, walked out of session in protest of “no quorum” to conduct normal business. Rule seven of the Senate Standing Rules calls for half of the total membership of the Senate to be present to form a quorum for normal business. On Tuesday, the first session following the impeachment of former Supreme Court Justice Kabineh M. Ja’neh after he was found guilty of misconduct for granting a stay order on the collection of road fund, the chamber of the Senate was almost…

MONROVIA – The alleged illegal buying of mother Annie Constance half lot of land by impeached Justice of the Supreme Court was one of the four counts that made up Justice Kabineh Ja’neh, a former Justice of the Supreme Court, impeachment trial. Interestingly, it was not one of the things that held him guilty. In the Liberian Senate’s wisdom, the land case was not an issue to have held the impeached Supreme Court Justice liable for and they voted not guilty to clear him of what the House of Representatives saw as a crime and impeachable offense. This article focuses…

Monrovia – The final day of Justice Kabineh Ja’neh’s impeachment trial left many of his supporters holding their breath after nine senators openly decided to abstain from the voting. And with just one decisive vote needed to turn the tide in his favor, Thursday was a long evening of legal and political maneuvering and Friday, March 29 will take a good space in the history books and at the same time hand President George Weah the power to appoint another Justice on Liberia’s most power court. Twenty Senators were poised to take the vote, which result will be two-third of…

Clockwise: Senators Armah Jallah (Gbarpolu), Oscar Cooper (Margibi), Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence (Grand Bassa), Dr. Henrique Tokpa (Bong), Daniel Naathan (Gbarpolu), Sando Johnson (Bomi), Conmany Wesseh (River Gee) and Steve Zargo (Lofa) MONROVIA – Eight members of the Senate are likely to hold a press conference later today to disassociate themselves from the ongoing impeachment trial of Associate Justice Kabineh M. Ja’neh.

MONROVIA – Cllr. M. Wilkins Wright, a member of the prosecution team, seeking the impeachment of the Supreme Court Justice Kabineh Ja’neh has admonished members of the Senator that the Supreme Court would be divided should they fail to vote to impeach him.

MONROVIA – Lawyers representing the legal interests of Associate Justice Kabineh Ja’neh and the prosecution will today hold final arguments in the impeachment trial of the under-fire Supreme Court Justice. The argument will give a clue to jurors (Senators) on how to vote. It is expected that at the end of the argument, a vote will be taken by the Senators as required by the rules of the Senate to make a final decision on the matter. On Wednesday, both sides rested on the production of oral and documented pieces of evidence and “submitted”. The decision came after a retired…