In a significant move to prioritize employment opportunities for Liberian job seekers, Labour Minister Cooper W. Kruah, Sr. has announced the suspension of work permit issuance and renewals for unskilled expatriates. This decision will take effect upon the expiration of current Alien Work Permits for unskilled expatriates employed by major foreign investment firms. The announcement…
The Central Bank of Liberia through its Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has reduced the Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) from 18.5 percent to 17.0 percent following the final quarterly meeting of 2024 held on October 16. Speaking with reporters Friday, October 18, 2024 in Monrovia, CBL Acting Deputy Governor James Wilfred said the decision, which comes…
The First Lady of Liberia Kartumu Yarta Boakai officially dedicated the newly renovated Joseph G.N. Gbadyu Public School in District #2, Neekreen Township, Grand Bassa County on Friday, October 18, 2024. According to an Executive Mansion release dated October 19, 2024, the dedication ceremony also recognized the ARREST Agenda, underlining the government’s commitment to education…
Liberia’s Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan has departed Liberia for Washington DC as head of the government delegation at the upcoming Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, which kicks off today, October 21 and runs up October 26, 2024. The high-powered delegation, which includes Acting Executive…
Campus based political group, Student Unification Party (SUP), is demanding an immediate lifting of a ban on student politics at the University of Liberia. The call was contained in a press release over the weekend by Patrick N Bosco, SUP Chairman. Bosco called on the administration of the university and the Government of Liberia to…
President Joseph Nyuma Boakai on Friday, October 18, 2024, met the head of the Catholic Church His Holiness Pope Francis in the Vatican Apostolic Palace in Rome, Italy. During the visit, Pope Francis adorned President Boakai with a work of bronze depicting a dove carrying an olive branch, with Italian inscription “Siate messaggeri di pace”…
Heated tension engulfed the House of Representatives on Thursday, October 17, 2024, as lawmakers went at each other’s throats over the removal of House Speaker, Cllr J. Fonati Koffa. Speaker Koffa was elected on a promise to initiate reforms in the House, including a key commitment to audit the Legislature, a process which has already…
Former President George Manneh Weah has blamed President Joseph Nyuma Boakai and his Unity Party government of facilitating the tension that erupted at the Legislature on Thursday, October 17, 2024, over attempts to oust House Speaker J. Fonati Koffa from his position. It can be recalled that heated tension engulfed the House of Representatives on…
The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia Sie-A-Nyene G. Yuoh on Monday, October 14, 2024, issued a caveat to magisterial courts to adhere to the prescribed time limits of cases before them. Speaking during the opening of the October 2024 A.D Term of Court, the Chief Justice said the Supreme Court will implement…
In the case involving a Catholic priest who allegedly raped a sixteen-year-old girl, police charged sheet has revealed that the man of God actually molested the kid by inserting his private part into her vagina. Father Daniel L. George, aged 32, the priest of the Christ The King Catholic Church on the Old Road, was…
