The Ministry of Justice on Friday, July 11, 2025, officially met with representatives of STAND (Solidarity of Trust for a New Day), a civic advocacy group planning to hold peaceful protests beginning July 15-17, 2025. STAND and partners: “We The People Movement”, participating Civil Society Organizations as well as the Youth League of the Congress…
The Program marking the 5th Commencement Convocation Ceremony of the Pharmacy Technology took place recently at the Liberia Institute of Health Management Sciences (LIHMS) Campus in Barnersville, outside Monrovia. Twenty seven (27) students got Associate Degrees in Pharmacy Technology. The students include 16 females and 11 males. Madam Nenneh Chieyoe, who proxy for her husband,…
Liberia is poised to host the highly anticipated 2025 Liberian Investment Conference from July 15 to 18, 2025, at the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Ministerial Complex. At a press briefing on Thursday, July 10, 2025, William Anderson, the Chief Executive Officer of NOVA Africa Venture Group, confidently announced that this year’s event is being carried out…
The House of Representatives on Thursday, July 10, 2025 passed into law two landmark pieces of legislation: An Act for the Establishment of a Probate Court and An Act for the Establishment of a Labor Court in Nimba County. The passage follows a comprehensive report from the Joint Committees on Judiciary, Internal Affairs, Ways, Means…
The Senate Committee on Labor, in its recommendations to the Plenary, disclosed that the Ministry of Labor lacks the enforcement willpower as an institution mandated by Chapter 45 of the Decent Work Act regarding the issuance of “Work Permit”. The Senate Labor Committee submitted a report to Plenary on Thursday, July 10, 2025, on the…
The main opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), through its National Youth League, has pledged support to the ‘STAND July 17th Protest,’ headed by its former Party Chairman Molubah Morlu. The endorsement culminated in a vibrant street parade across central Monrovia, signaling a heightened build-up to the anticipated mass action. Journalist Rufus Divine Brooks, Jr.,…
The House of Representatives- HOR, has instructed its Joint Committee on Ways, Means, and Judiciary to review, within two weeks, an instrument seeking to decentralize Liberia’s national development planning by creating budgetary lines for each of the country’s 73 electoral districts. The proposed legislation, titled “An Act to Create a Budgetary Line for the 73…
The Mutual Benefits Assurance Company has filed civil and criminal lawsuits against Bea Mountain Mining Corporation in Liberia, accusing it of malicious prosecution and abuse of judicial process. The dispute arises from a previously settled arbitration case involving International Construction Engineering (ICE), for whom Mutual had issued performance bonds. In 2017, an international arbitration awarded…
As part of its commitment to improving access to safe drinking water, Action Transforming Lives (ACTs), a non-governmental organization, has officially handed over 15 newly constructed hand pumps to several communities, a health facility, and a school in River Cess County. The turnover ceremony was held in Little Liberia, Fen River District, on Thursday, July…
Our attention has been drawn to an ongoing misunderstanding between the Liberia National Police (LNP) and STAND, the organizers of a highly publicized street protest scheduled for July 17, 2025. In a special statement delivered via the LNP’s official Facebook page on the evening of July 7, 2025, Inspector General Gregory O. W. Coleman requested…
