Author: Selma Lomax

BONG COUNTY – The bodies of three illegal gold miners were retrieved from a collapsed mineshaft on Saturday in David Dean Town in Kokoyah Statutory District,  Bong County, while six others are feared dead following the mishap which occurred on the night of Friday, December 11, 2020, FrontPageAfrica has gathered.

Belefania, Zota District Four – Several polling stations visited by FrontPageAfrica in Bong’s District Four have been deserted due to heavy downpour of rain.

Gbarnga – Early voting kickoff on Tuesday in Bong with hours-long waits at some polling locations amid what elections officials said is a record-high turnout.

Monrovia – Liberians will head to the polls Tuesday, December 8 to elect 15 new senators. Intense battles and very tight races are already afoot as the senatorial candidates engage in last minute activities ahead of the polls.

Gbarnga – Calls for the postponement of the referendum took center stage at the start of a two-day National Peace and Reconciliation Conference in Gbarnga, with President George Weah insisting that he has broken no laws to propose a referendum.

Gbarnga – Rep. Marvin Cole of Bong’s District 3 on Tuesday took four minutes of his six-minute speech at a political rally in Gbarnga to bash Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor for her refusal to support the party’s senatorial candidate in Bong County, Henry Yallah.

Salala District, Bong County – President George Weah Tuesday flagged off the campaign of Bong County Senator Henry Yallah with a caveat to members of the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change to respect the mandate of the coalition by supporting candidates of the party in all 15 counties or else face repercussions.

Gbarnga, Bong County – “Nothing to show as achievements over the last nine years,” “he’s part of the reasons behind the incomplete Bong County Technical College,” -those were some of the words of a group of undecided voters used to describe the incumbent senator and Congress for Democratic Change candidate Henry Yallah’s performance during Sunday’s debate in Gbarnga. For Deputy Speaker Prince Moye, candidate of the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP), voters described him as “greedy”, “a member of the same group of leaders behind the incomplete Bong Technical College,” “Acts like he is a saint but he has also contributed…

Gbarnga, Bong County – Prison Fellowship-Liberia has ended a two-day workshop on access to justice for community members from across Bong’s thirteen administrative districts.

Gbarnga, Bong County – Menipakei Dumoe says he would launch a lawsuit against the Special Court for Sierra Leone “ignoring the rights” of former Liberian president Charles Taylor to be transferred to Africa, where COVID-19 less prevalent.