Analysis
Liberia: The Jury Debate — “A Corrupt Jury Is Worse Than No Jury.” But What About a Judge Who Has Already Spoken?
MONROVIA — When Chief Justice Yamie Quiqui Gbeisay Sr. rose to open the Supreme Court’s October Term on Monday, he did not…
Rodney Sieh
Legal Issues
Liberia’s Council of Churches warns justice “must not become political revenge” as ex-ministers convicted in Saudi aid case and Chief Justice floats scrapping jury trials
MONROVIA – Liberia’s most influential Christian body has called on the government, the courts and the country’s political class to keep politics…
Regional News
Liberia’s Charlyne Brumskine Elected President of ECOWAS Court of Justice
ABUJA, Nigeria — Liberian lawyer and law professor Charlyne M. Brumskine was elected president of the Community Court of Justice of the…
Drug and Crime
Liberian Senator Warns Washington: Mining Giants and Drug Cartels Are Pushing Liberia Toward ‘State Capture’
WASHINGTON, DC — A Liberian senator has told American democracy advocates that his country faces two threats at once: multinational mining companies working…
Analysis
Liberia: Investigators Find No Link Between Liberia’s US$19M and US$317M Cocaine Busts
MONROVIA – For four months, Liberians have treated this year’s two great cocaine seizures as one story. The airport bust came first, the…
Analysis
Liberia: What Judge Ousman Feika’s Ruling Against Attorney Gbawou Kowou Does, and What It Leaves Unanswered
MONROVIA – Judge Ousman F. Feika of Criminal Court “C” did not suspend Atty. Gbawou Kowou’s law license. That distinction matters.
Religion
Liberia: Rev. Reeves Tells Liberia Peace Must Go Beyond the End of War
MONROVIA – Liberia’s leaders and churches must not mistake the end of the war for the arrival of peace. That was the…
Drug and Crime
Liberia: The Mark Quiah PUzzle: Named in Drug Indictment, Missing From All 11 Counts
MONROVIA – For months, Mark Egon Kuiah’s name has hovered over Liberia’s cocaine scandal without ever quite landing.
Banking & Finance
Liberia: Inflation Eases to 4.5% as Central Bank Moves to Tighten Grip on Dollarized Economy
Monrovia – The Central Bank of Liberia (CBL) has kept its benchmark Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) unchanged at 16.0 percent but has…
Foreign Relations
Liberian Envoy Invited to Opening of Barbados Slavery Memorial
MONROVIA — Liberia’s special envoy for cultural and heritage diplomacy has been invited to the opening of a national memorial in Barbados honoring…