Economies do better at enacting regulations to improve the national business climate than they do in providing the public services needed to secure actual progress, according to the World Bank Group’s new Business Ready report. The inaugural 2024 report, which assesses the business climate in 50 economies, provides an extensive dataset – 1200 indicators per…
Former Finance Minister Samuel D. Tweah is facing double jeopardy as government lawyers prayed the court to set aside his US$8,000,000 “defective” property bond. This may place defendant Tweah at risk of being arrested for filing a criminal bond that is faulty before Judge A. Blamo Dixon of Criminal Court “C” at the Temple of…
A Liberian educator and Officer In-Charge of Richard M. Nixon Institute, Dr. John T. Wulu, has urged the Government of Liberia through President Joseph N. Boakai to prioritized Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education in Liberia. Dr. Wulu made that statement when he served as keynote speaker at the graduation ceremony of Richard M….
Liberia’s Governance Commission Acting Chairperson Prof. Dr. Alaric K. Tokpa has outlined poor governance, over-politicization of the civil service, overstaffing of government institutions, indiscipline, corruption, impunity, and the intimidation and killing of professionals as governance crisis inherited by the Boakai-Koung administration. Dr. Tokpa believes that public sector reforms must be carried out with utmost seriousness…
The Government of Liberia on Tuesday, October 1, 2024 presented to Criminal Court “A” Judge Roosevelt Willie pieces of evidence seeking to convict a Guinean accused of plotting to overthrow the current Junta President of Guinea Mamady Doumuyah. Prosecution earlier failed to submit their evidence to the court and were issued a writ of summons…
The Government of Liberia through the Civil Service Agency (CSA) says it will end all salary payment transactions through the use of mobile money. Speaking Tuesday, October 1, 2024, at the Ministry of Information regular press briefing CSA Director General Josiah Joekai said the mobile money payment platform was being abused by unscrupulous individuals. The…
The Deputy Minister for Press and Public Affair at Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism, Daniel O. Sando, says President Joseph N. Boakai and his government will not interfere with the investigation launched by Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) into alleged US$15 million off-budget expenditure. Addressing a press briefing in Monrovia Tuesday, October 1, 2024, Minister…
Liberia’s former Finance Minister Samuel Tweah has blamed the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC-led) government’s failure to prosecute alleged former Officials of Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s twelve years rule under the Unity Party Government on the departure of United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). He said the first government to be democratically elected after the…
The Director General of the Civil Service Agency (CSA) of Liberia Josiah Joekai has admitted that the country’s public sector is sick and it is by laws and policies the responsibility of certain governmental functionaries to work on it. Joekai spoke on Tuesday, October 1, 2024, when the Liberia Institute for Public Administration (LIPA), the Governance Commission…
The Resident Judge of Criminal court C” A. Blamo Dixon has issued a Writ of Subpoena Decu Tecum and Ad Testificandum on the Liberian Drugs Enforcement Agency (LDEA) suspended Director General Abraham Kromah. Judge Dixon’s decision was triggered from a motion made by one of the defense lawyers requesting Mr. Kromah to appear before the…
