Author: Lennart Dodoo

Ganta, Nimba County – The Women and Children Division of the Liberia National Police (LNP) has arrested and sent to court a 37-year-old pastor of the Royal Apostolic Church in Christian Community in Ganta, Nimba County for alleged rape.

The Editor, Happy July 26th or a dreaded July Nightmare to our fellow Liberians back home. I am tired of pouring water on a duck or trying to convince a turtle to race against a horse. Or worst still, to tell a blind person to get the chair in the next room; or still, to shout at a deaf person and ask him to hand me something. This is the dilemma we are confronted with now in Liberia. I have been beating on a dead horse. I am afraid chaos, violence, bloodshed and much more may return to Liberia again.…

MONROVIA – A somewhat redux of the infamous Sable Mining exposé, the GELPAZ-National Housing Authority corruption saga that saw the former Managing Director, Duanah Siryon, his principal deputies and officials of GELPAZ land in jail for alleged bribery and solicitation of bribes, is taking another trend. The Government of Liberia has now sealed a deal with GELPAZ despite being in court for alleged bribery.

“Karma’, in Hinduism and Buddhism is “the sum of a person’s actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences.” According to the theory of Karma, “what happens to a person, happens because they caused it with their actions.” You will see in this rejoinder that karma has caught up with Hassan Bility and some of his comrades in the profitable so-called human rights advocacy industry. As the devasting conflict in our country subsided, Bility pursued and established a niche in the profitable international human rights-advocacy business using his confrontational situation with formal…

Grand Cape Mount – As part of efforts to promote good cocoa farming practice around the Gola Forest National Park (GFNP), in Grand Cape Mount County, the Vainga Agriculture Development Management and Consultancy (VADEMCO), has built the capacities of 77 local farmers in cocoa production, management and disease control.

MONROVIA – Immigration officers at the Roberts International Airport (RIA) on Saturday, July 13, morning stopped the wife and children of Representative Yekeh Kolubah, Montserrado County’s district #10 lawmaker, from leaving the country.

MONROVIA – Liberia’s cocoa sector is conflicted; the local exporters are unhappy. New policies being introduced by government is not going down well with them. They are dismayed by plans to monopolize the sector – especially, turning it over to a Lebanese-owned firm.

MONROVIA – Not much is being heard about the investigation of the US$25 million mop-up exercise which the Kroll, Presidential Investigation Team and the General Auditing Commission all say was full of discrepancies, hence the need for further investigation.

MONROVIA – About 350 persons in Western Liberia, the most impoverished region in the country, are about to lose their jobs as the biggest concession company in the area, Sime Darby Oil Palm Plantation is scaling down operation in the country.

MONROVIA – Lawmakers in Liberia are expected to make an ultimate sacrifice by agreeing to a massive salary slash from a whopping US$15,000 to a maximum of US$6,000 as part of recommendations from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to reduce the country’s wage bill amid a crippled economy. However, the question remains, is this an undertaking they are willing to take? The wage bill accounted for 65 percent (US$330 million) of FY 2018/2019 which stood at US$570 million. For IMF, which was invited by President George Weah to help resuscitate the economy, reducing the wage bill is crucial as the…