The head of Liberia’s Public Procurement and Concessions Commission (PPCC), Bodger Scott Johnson, has secured additional funding of US$250,000 from the World Bank to support the ongoing public procurement digitization effort in Liberia. The PPCC boss made the breakthrough while attending the 2024 Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group…
Bomi County Senator, Edwin M. Snowe has reintroduced an act to amend Chapter 31 of the Executive Law of 1972 to establish the Liberia Tourism Authority. In a communication on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, Snowe said the Liberia Tourism Authority Act of 2020 passed by the 54th Legislature, is being reintroduced for passage by the…
Monrovia City Mayor, John-Charuk Siafa has appealed to the joint committee on Ways, Means and Finance for more budgetary allocation for effective and sustainable city management. Mayor Siafa told the committee on Tuesday, April 23. 2024 that sustainable waste management needs proper fiscal support, which the Monrovia City Corporation lacks. He recalled in the 2023…
The Ministry of Public Works says it has observed waves of misinformation in the media about it awarding contracts to road construction companies outside the standard procurement method stipulated in the Public Procurement & Concessions Act of 2010. In a statement dated April 23, 2024, the ministry said that awarding of contracts without budgetary appropriation…
The Executive Director of Integrity Watch Liberia, Harold Aidoo has lauded the 55th Legislature Joint Committee on Ways, Means and Finance for the first time participation of CSOs in the ongoing budget hearings. The Joint Committee on Ways, Means, Finance and Budget of the House of Representatives and the Liberian Senate has been conducting budget…
The Solidary and Trust for a New Day (STAND-Movement) has announced in Monrovia that Lucas Richards, the American Missionary accused, in Jessica Lloyd’s just concluded case will be prosecuted in the United States for his crimes committed against the alleged victim. Speaking to reporters on the crime scene in Palmfarm Community, Dixville, Montserrado County, STAND…
The Liberia National Police (LNP) seems not be taking lightly its decision to restrict motorcyclists from the main streets of Monrovia and its environs, as Deputy Police Chief for Operations remains resolute on the enforcement of the law. The reaffirmation of the LNP’s decision comes in the wake of threats from motorcyclists that they will…
The Liberia Media and Marketing Services Incorporated, publisher of The NEWS Newspaper celebrates 35 years of media work. Established on April 24, 1989 by Professor Wilson K. Tarpeh as a voice of the voiceless, the paper has undergone series of tough times under various Liberian government administrations. At some point, reporters, editors and correspondents were…
The Government of China has donated solar powered systems to the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications intended to boost communication infrastructure and economic development of eight of Liberia’s fifteen counties. The implementation of the project will provide a stable, reliable, clean and green power supply for the central office as well as other eight counties…
Environment experts say saving paper means combating deforestation, and in the case of Liberia, thousands of acres of forests are cut down to produce charcoal, increasing climate change, flooding, and air pollution. To contribute to the reduction of the use of paper, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) through the Accelerated Community Development Programme (ACDP),…
