Author: Mae Azango

Accra, Ghana – As one of the jurors of UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Award Committee, I was flying to Chile, to attend the award ceremony. I was on my way to join my colleagues— other jurors— who were also gathering in that South American nation for the World Press Freedom Day ceremony. We were to name and present the winner of this year’s Press Freedom Award. The ceremony had been earmarked for May 2nd & 3rd, 2024, in Santiago.

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PAYNESVILLE – On a sunny day at Red Light Commercial Market in Paynesville, just outside Monrovia, Christine Moses makes her rounds, calling for passengers with a slogan usually used by ‘car boys’, “Sinkor, in Town, Sinkor in town,” as passengers rush to fill her red twenty-two-seated passenger bus, for which she serves as a conductor, or colloquially termed a “car girl.”

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MONROVIA – Mr. Victor Zelee of the USA has alleged that Mr. Erasmus T. Williams also of the USA, but now advisor to the Liberia Petroleum Refinery Company (LPRC), of embezzling and duping him of US$ 37,710 in a car dealership business. And Mr. Zelee is afraid that if care is not taken, Williams will use President Boikai to dupe other business people as he did him in the US.

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Rev. Dr. Momolu Massaquoi, President of the Liberia Baptist Theological Seminary, says the fire of love that was burning when they first met as high school sweethearts is still burning even more after thirty years. “I still love my wife, and she also loves me. This is why we are celebrating our 30th Valentine’s together and our wedding anniversary,” he said.

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In the absence of civil servants being unable to receive salaries due to a lack of funds at the Central Bank of Liberia, which has complained of being owed 5 million by the Weah-led government, sellers at the Waterside Market express their dependence on civil servants to purchase goods during Christmas. However, if the government has not paid up to now, they are doomed. Under the blazing sun, sellers sat on Mechlin Street, which leads to Waterside Market, preventing vehicles from passing through as few buyers search for things to buy.

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