A group under the banner “The Kids Reading For All Foundation” has donated educational materials, including pens, copybooks, pencils and L$2,800 to fifteen scholarship students at the Ambulia Gbangba Public School in Maizen, Bomi County. The donation, led by the foundation’s CEO Saimo Omias Kortu, Executive Director E. Reagan G.T. Barcon II, and other team…
The Movement for Progressive Change (MPC) through its national chairperson has condemned a recent statement by President Joseph Nyuma Boakai suggesting that government officials should be generous to ordinary citizens with stolen public funds. The party said it views the president’s statement as deeply troubling and blatantly encouraging corruption by government officials as long as…
Former Finance Minister Samuel D. Tweah and four other ex-officials of government on Friday, December 20, 2024 pleaded not guilty to all economic related crimes levied against them, joining issue with the state. Defendants Samuel Tweah, former Finance Minister, Nyanti Tuan, former Acting Justice Minister/Solicitor General, D. Moses P. Cooper, former Controller of the Financial…
Both the Liberian Senate and the Majority Bloc of the House of Representatives have concurred to pass the Fiscal Year 2025 Draft National Budget in the tone of 880 million United States Dollars. The House Plenary took the decision Friday during the 2nd day sitting in the extension of the 3rd quarter following a comprehensive…
The Juvenile Court was established in 1972 under the Judiciary Law (Title 17, Liberian Code of Laws Revised, Chapter 10), a milestone for Liberia. However, it was originally designed as a regular adult court, and its infrastructure and processes were not tailored to the unique requirements of juvenile justice. The court has since operated under…
In the wake of Liberia’s selection by the Board of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) for a second Compact, Finance and Development Planning Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan has held a very productive high-level engagement with senior officials from the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to discuss the roll-out of the eagerly anticipated second MCC Compact. During…
The Government of Liberia and the People’s Republic of China have broken ground for the construction of a National Clinical Diagnostic and Treatment Laboratory near the EBK Military Barracks in lower Margibi County. Speaking Friday, December 20, 2024 at the groundbreaking ceremony, Boakai described the project as an emerging state-of-the-art facility that will fill a…
On December 21, a total of 110 individuals sat for the Bong County Technical College’s first entrance exam for 2024/2025 Semester II academic year. The applicants were tested in both Mathematics and English. While the turnout was commendable, it could have been higher, but many candidates received information about the entrance exam late, something the…
In a bold and inspiring move, the Ministry of Education, through its Bureau of Early Childhood Education, has launched a national advocacy initiative aimed at transforming Early Childhood Education (ECE) in Liberia. According to a Saturday, December 21, 2024 release issued in Monrovia, this initiative is part of the larger Diaspora Librarian 2024 Platform, a…
Liberians woke up Wednesday, December 18, 2024 to the shocking reality of watching their country’s legislative building being ravaged into a cloud of flames igniting out of the ceilings of the joint chambers currently hosting the Majority Bloc members of the House of Representatives. The Liberia National Fire Service (LNSF), backed by the Liberia Water…
