Three officials of the Liberia United for Sustainable Development (LUSD) have disclosed that plans have been finalized to plant cassava on its 25 acres of farm land located in Kakata, Margibi County.
The leadership of the Independent Mano River Transport Union of Liberia (IMRTUL) has expressed thanks and appreciation to President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for accepting and recognizing the IMRTUL operations in the country.
The Human Resources Manager of the Chinese Construction firm, Chongqing International Construction Corporation (CICO), Ms. Jacquelene M. Sogbandi, has claimed that the company is providing better incentives for local Liberian employees contrary to rumor it is paying peanuts.
One of Liberia's leading GSM Company Lone star cell GSM has promote the Ministry of Labour by providing them two set of telephone called, hotline.
The China Henan International Cooperation Group Company Limited, (CHICO) has embarked on a multi million dollars headquarter project to help in the reconstruction of post conflict Liberia.
Among the objectives for which the Liberia Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (LEITI) was established to implement the need to ensure that concession agreements that the government of Liberia enter into with investors are transparent, follow the open bidding process in compliance with the Act creating the National Public Procurement and Concessions Commission.
When news of the death of the Archbishop Emeritus of the Catholic Church of Liberia Michael Kpakala Francis flashed through the airwaves on Sunday, May 19, 2013, there were many who observed that the history of Liberia, one of the oldest independent nations in Africa South of the Sahara will never be re-written without mention of some of the great sons and daughters that have toiled day and night and sacrificed everything to ensure that freedom reigns.
It has now becoming abundantly clear that there are certain tendencies that are more seeking to divide rather than unite the Liberian people. It is no secret that there is acrimony between the Americo-Liberian population that founded Liberia in 1822 and the vast majority of indigenous Liberians that they meet.
“The first thing when they took you there, there is a big hole they used to put you in. You get snakes and other bad, bad things there. You will be there without food and water for three days and nights, and when you survive, then, you are good to go,” recounted a former Anti-Terrorist Unit (ATU) officer of the defunct infamous Gbartala training base in Gbartala, Kokoya District in Bong County.
The present stalemate between the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) and the head of the Executive Protective Services (EPS) Othello Warrick is considered by many as a sharp contradiction to what the international community has been made to believe regarding press freedom in Liberia.
Sometimes there is misunderstanding regarding Liberia's investment environment. What is a reality is that the horrible fourteen years civil war in this country destroyed many well established institutions and structures including the infrastructures of most companies especially those in the mining, agriculture and fisheries arena.
The cold hand of death has taken the lives of three radiant sons of Nimba County in the month of April, 2013. This month is noted in Liberian history for disastrous events. Of late, there was an aborted April 12 demonstration of which there were counter threatening remarks from the military and protest organizers. April has witnessed notably a rice riot (14/1979), a bloody military coupe (12/1980) and a devastating city gun battle (6/1996).
During the official launch of the 2013 National Anti-rape Campaign in Monrovia recently, speaker after speaker including President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and the Minister of Gender and Development Hon. Julia Duncan Cassell, did not mince their words in totally condemning rape as a crime and a major challenge.
The usual saying in Liberia today is that a lot has been done, but a lot remains to be done. The U.S State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2012 is a tacit recognition that despite the many interventions to improve the country's justice system and the judiciary a lot remains to be done.
The issue of Liberia's oil petroleum wealth becoming the monopoly of the first family became a widely discussed subject ever-since President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf appointed her youngest son Robert Sirleaf to the lucrative positions of board Chairman of the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) and Senior Adviser to the President.
