Author: Press Release

Monrovia – The leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Workers’ Association (MOFAWA) and employees on Friday, July 23, 2021, applause and gave a standing ovation to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr., as a sign of massive support for his visionary leadership, he and his team are providing at the Ministry during this difficult time of the COVID-19 pandemic.

MONROVIA – The head of Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT), Miss Doreen Bogdan-Martin remembered Liberia and wrote the office of the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Cllr. Cooper W. Kruah Sr. extending Happy Independence Day to Liberia.

MONROVIA – Eighteen County-based staff of government ministries, agencies and commissions from Maryland, RiverGee, Grand Kru and Grand Gedeh, have completed a four-day result-based planning, monitoring, evaluation and reporting training on Thursday of the week in the southeastern part of Liberia.

GRAND CAPE MOUNT – As part of efforts to strengthen operations and reach its goal in Liberia, a German Mineral Company, Thesaurum Gold Exploration Ltd, is expanding its activities to Grand Cape Mount to do diamond mining.

MONROVIA – For many Liberians in hard-to-reach rural areas, having access to face masks is a luxury that they can’t easily afford.

MONROVIA — Bridge Liberia continues to make progress in supporting the Government of Liberia in the primary education sector. Bridge, which Is the Government’s biggest and main partner in the Liberia Education Advancement Program (LEAP) supports 171 Schools in 11 of Liberia’s 15 counties. Students at these schools’ amount to over 37,000.

Auditor General P. Garswa Jackson, Sr, ACCA, CFIP, CFC MONROVIA – Liberia’s new Auditor General (AG), Hon. P. Garswa Jackson, Sr. ACCA, CFIP, CFC, has officially presented his vision to a cross-section of Senior Managers of the General Auditing Commission (GAC), recounting contributions made by the late former AG, Madam Yusador S. Gaye and promised to build on the foundation of the late AG. He also paid homage to the fallen former AG for the professional manner in which she conducted the affairs of the GAC over the last seven years.

MONROVIA – The Liberia Maritime Authority has announced that the lifeless bodies of three persons believed to be some of the missing persons from the vessel were found on the shores of Grand Cape Mount County (2 persons) and Marshall in Margibi County (1 person).

Monrovia – Labour Minister Cllr. Charles H. Gibson has declared illegal the recent strike action staged by the workers of the National Transit Authority (NTA) in front of the Foreign Ministry.

Marie Martin, PhD, MEd, Kristina Talbert-Slagle, PhD, and Bernice Dahn, MD, MPH MONROVIA – On July 20, 2021, The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced a US$15 million project aimed at establishing a public-private-academic hub for research utilization in the Liberian health sector. The funds are part of USAID’s Bringing Research to Impact for Development, Global Engagement, and Utilization (BRIDGE-U) partnership project. Collaboratively, Yale University, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Liberia College of Health Sciences (ULCHS) will create the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation (CTLI) in Liberia.