Author: Press Release

MONROVIA – A joint fisheries enforcement and compliance team has begun touring fishing communities across Liberia with the aim of ensuring the collection of the remaining 2020 license fees and at the same time creating massive awareness for the payment of the 2021 fishing license fees.

MONROVIA – For providing quality banking service to the Executive Protection Service, United Bank for Africa Liberia Limited has be honored by the Country’s elite Security Service.

MONROVIA – The Government of Liberia, through the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) and its partners, conducted a one-day National Multi-stakeholder Information-Sharing meeting bordering on the gazettement of the Krahn-Bassa Proposed Protected Area (KBPPA). With technical support from the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation (WCF) and funding from the Great Ape Conservation Fund/USFWS, the Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund and the Liberia Forest Sector Project, the meeting was attended by key traditional collaborating partners and stakeholders who expressed overwhelming approval for the gazettment of the future national park as a mechanism for sustainable approach to forest management and biodiversity conservation.  

LMHRA MD Smith, along with the newly-established PMS-TWG MONROVIA – In bid to sustainably strengthen pharmaceuticals and medical product quality assurance systems in Liberia, the Liberia Medicines and Health Products Regulatory Authority (LMHRA) in collaboration with the United States Pharmacopeia Convention (USP), Promoting the Quality of Medicines Plus, on December 18, 2020, established a Post Market Surveillance Technical Working Group (PMS-TWG) for Liberia.

Hamilton, Ontario  – Canadian-based charity Empowerment Squared announced today that it will soon be working with local partners and communities in Liberia to empower a minimum of 75 economically and socially disadvantaged Liberians aged 18-35 through digital literacy, financial literacy, and basic entrepreneurship skills, and provide them with holistic psychosocial counselling and seed funds to experiment with self-employment.

MONROVIA – The United States Agency for International Development, in partnership with King Philanthropies and private donors, has launched a cash-transfer program, which will provide direct cash support to vulnerable Liberians.

Minneapolis, Minnesota – The Association of Liberian Journalists in the Americas (ALJA) is commending the National Elections Commission (NEC), leaders of political parties, the government of Liberia and Liberians for the peaceful conduct of the recent special senatorial and by- elections in the country. ALJA is also, commending the recent constitutional referendum held in the country.

BUCHANAN – A two-day workshop, geared towards ensuring comptrollers and accountants of government line ministries and agencies, having adequate understanding about the newly created Comptroller and Accountant General Department, and in continuation of the reform exercise has been held in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County, from December 18-19, 2020.

Gbovadeh Gbilia at Liberian school with students MONROVIA – The Honourable Gbovadeh Gbilia has been appointed as the Managing Director for Bridge Liberia; one of the partners supporting the Ministry of Education to deliver the Liberian Education Advancement programme (LEAP.)

Monrovia —The Vice President of the Republic of Liberia Jewel Howard-Taylor has expressed serious concern over claims of intimidation of one of the leading female candidates, Madam Botoe Kanneh, in the Senatorial election of Gbarpolu County.