Dr. Cassell made these comments when he served as keynote speaker at the 56th anniversary celebration of the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) held in Tubmanburg, Bomi County on Wednesday, September 30. “As you come together to celebrate the 56th anniversary of the Press Union of Liberia (PUL), let this day be marked as the sound of the ‘Trumpet Call to Duty. He urged Liberian journalists to renew the public’s faith and hope in the media, through unified voices and platforms. Prior to the initiation of political ownership of the media in Liberia, the Journalism profession was respectable and enviable. In Liberia some of the Journalists are now captive in political rivalry that is running the media at the service of politicians”.

SADLY, PRIOR to the printing of additional LD banknotes, the banking system had experienced dire liquidity problems, including mutilated banknotes and insufficient banknotes in the banking system to meet depositors’ demand for cash. IT IS APPROACHING FOUR months now since the Central Bank of Liberia announced the secure arrival of additional LD4 Billion Liberian Dollar banknotes into the country. According to Madam Pearson, there are L$ 21 billion in circulation with huge sum of mutilated notes on the market. This, she said makes the Four Billion Liberian Dollars grossly insufficient to address the issue of mutilated banknotes on the market. SADLY, PRIOR to the printing of additional LD banknotes, the banking system had experienced dire liquidity problems, including mutilated banknotes and insufficient banknotes in the banking system to meet depositors’ demand for cash.

MONROVIA – The Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says it is not investigating Mr. Akin Akintende Ojo, Liberia’s Honorary Consul General to Mexico because it has not received any complaint on the desk of the Foreign Ministry. According to Deputy Foreign Minister Henry Fahnbulleh, all that has being heard about diplomatic passport fraud are speculations and allegations without proof. “The Ministry of Foreign Affairs doesn’t sell or has a policy that supports or encourages the sales of passport. When information surface that there was something criminal at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it wasn’t the FBI of NSA it was the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in a covert operation.”Min. Not a Fugitive, Wonplo SaysMr. Wonplo said Monday that contrary to perceptions and speculations, he has not fled Liberia.

Monrovia – Senator, Abraham Darius Dillon (Liberty Party, Montserrado County) has frowned on the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) members for tearing each other apart. The Senator was speaking Wednesday when the CPP Women in collaboration with other women groups honored him for keeping his promises during the campaign that led him to the Senate. Said the Senator: “To the CPP, we need to stop being divided and stop tearing each other apart and form a united force. If we will deliver this country, we need to stop limiting CPP to only four persons which include Alexander B. Cummings(ANC), Benoni Urey(All Liberia Party), Senator Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence(Liberty Party) and Joseph Boakai(Unity Party). Senator Dillon added: “We should all allow everyone to grow until we stop building the party around four-person we will not grow.

Bull emphasized that Ms. Cummings was going about her normal duties within the same time frame she mentioned that the incident had occurred. She further disclosed that Ms. Cummings never complained Amb. She alleged that the allegation of sexual harassment was orchestrated a current employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs who had wanted to be Minister. “The man and the woman who wanted that job to be Foreign Minister and didn’t get it, I’ve got all the information on them. This is a smear campaign before even my nomination when it was speculated that I would be preferred for the position of foreign minister.

The President of BRYF Emmanuel Kpoto and Operation Manager Varney Dunor at a press conferenceMonrovia – Emmanuel Kpoto, the president of the Bill Rogers Youth Foundation is calling on President George Weah to recognize Liberia’s international track athlete Bill Rogers as he (President Weah) has done for several Liberians international icons. The Nelson Mandela Award honors are presented to exemplary leaders that serve as a vital force for positive change in their communities. Liberians international athlete on September 26, 2020, won the Nelson Mandela Freedom Award for 2020 for empowering the disadvantaged youths in Liberia. Rogers has been a good friend to President Weah but had been deprived several times of meeting the President. He added: “We believe that President Weah will wholeheartedly appreciate your award and this time around, your effort in trying to meet the President will come to reality.”

With megaphones in their hands, the group toured market places, homes, and intellectual centers in Montserrado County District#14 to sent out their messages about their planned peaceful protest. “The nation’s fastest and popular growing Political Civil Rights movement, CDC-COP, launches its Community Outreach today in Clara and Vai Town, District#14 in preparation for the October 14th‘Protect the State’ Protest,” Massaquoi, Secretary-General of CDC-COP said. They were the force behind last year’s June 7, “Save the State” protest, organized by the Council of Patriots’ Leader Henry Costa. They were also part of the January 6, protest that was again organized by the Council of Patriots. During that protest, the joint securities officers disbursed the crowd after they tried to cook in front of the Executive Mansion.

The award recognizes and celebrates inspirational business leadership at a time of changeMonrovia – Finance and Economic Planning Minister Samuel Tweah has been awarded the African Inspirational Leadership Award in Public Service by the African Leadership Magazine. The award presented to the Minister Wednesday in the backdrop to this year’s African Leadership Magazine’s 5th US – Africa Investment Forum & Policy Dialogue 2020. The award recognizes and celebrates inspirational business leadership at a time of change. The online voting was responsible for sixty-five percentage points and supporting evidence responsible for 35% in the final selection process for the 2020 winners. Other discussants and honorees at the forum included Dr Patrick J. Schena Professor of International Business, at the Fletcher School, Tufts University USA; Hon.

MONROVIA – The Government of Liberia recognizes the financial difficulties private school teachers are experiencing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic which intensified in the country earlier this year. The government gathers that some owners of private schools, including faith-based schools, have been unable to pay their teachers and faculties since February 2020, owing to limited or no tuition payment. This is the Government’s way of assisting private schools and their teachers prepare for the resumption of normal school activities. Private School Systems are also required to submit evidence of the last payment of withholding on income tax to the Liberia Revenue Authority. As the government exerts effort to make these payments, it extends thanks and appreciation to teachers of private schools and encourages them to support their respective institutions.

Monrovia – The Adaptation Fund Board on Wednesday, September 30, 2020 approved US$ 9,592,082 for the implementation of Liberia’s proposal to build climate resilience in the cocoa and rice sectors in the West Africa Country. The Adaptation Fund is an International Fund that finances projects and programs aimed at helping developing countries to adapt to the harmful effects of climate change. It is setup under the Kyoto Protocol of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The “Building Climate Resilience in Liberia’s Cocoa and Rice Sectors” Project, which was advanced by the Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia (EPA ) and approved by the Adaptation Fund aims to address key climate vulnerabilities in agriculture and water resources management in the rice and cocoa value chain, and hence contribute to immediate and longer-term development and resilience needs of poor vulnerable smallholder farmers in Liberia. EPA Acting Executive Director, Randall M. Dobayou has lauded Adaptation Fund Board for the approval of the Building Climate Resilience in Liberia’s Cocoa and Rice Sectors Project which according to him would bring some relief in the agricultural sector amidst the impacts of climate change which is negatively affecting the sector.

MONROVIA – The National Executive Committee of the Congress for Democratic Change, with immediate effect, suspends the membership of CDC Bong County Chairman Victor Wisseh for ‘Violence and disruption’ of an official party program held in Gbarnga over the weekend. This decision arises out of an official complaint of 29 September 2020, accusing ‘ Mr. Wisseh of leading a gang of young people to attack…while having a political rally for Sen. Henry W. Yallah at the Chief Compound Public School, resulting into physical violence and wounds’. Mr. Wisseh is also suspended from the party’s Bong County Chapter Chairmanship pending the outcome of a Grievance and Ethics investigation. At the same time, the leadership of the Coalition for Democratic Change condemns recent allegations of violence in District-10, and wishes to clarify that neither the CDC nor (any of) its leaders was involved. Notwithstanding, the party calls on the Liberia National Police to prosecute those arrested in connection with said violence.

Mrs. Glassco noted that NaFAA shall specify conditions for the placing on the market of fish, fish products and fish feed, monitor possession, import, export, transportation, selling, receiving, of fish and fisheries products, test and issue sanitary certificate for all fish and fish products leaving Liberia. Glassco in a press release issued Thursday September 28, 2020, also stated that NaFAA shall among other things be responsible to control fish handling, storing, landing, transportation, processing and marketing of fish and fish products. The NaFAA boss further stated that NaFAA shall inspect operational fishery enterprises for compliance with fish safety regulations within the Republic of Liberia. Mrs. Glassco noted that NaFAA shall specify conditions for the placing on the market of fish, fish products and fish feed, monitor possession, import, export, transportation, selling, receiving, of fish and fisheries products, test and issue sanitary certificate for all fish and fish products leaving Liberia. Glassco stated that NaFAA will inspect all fish and fish products leaving and entering Liberia including cold storage facilities to ensure the quality of fish sold to the public or exported from Liberia.

BUCHANAN, Grand Bassa – MNG Gold and Bea Mountain Mining Corporation (BMMC) have smuggled a huge consignment of ammonia nitrate—the chemical that caused the devastating explosion in Beirut, Lebanon last month—into Liberia for mining. The big bags of ammonia nitrate are guarded by eight armed police officers of the Emergency Response Unit (ERU). But the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Liberia, the government office that supervises the import, export and use of chemicals, said it was unaware of the ammonia nitrate. Importing a chemical without the consent of the EPA is a crime under the Environmental Protection and Management Law of Liberia. Some of the 1,250 kilograms of ammonia nitrate in Buchanan, Grand Bassa County.

In a brief memoir first published in Daily Maverick 168, she recalled Liberia had been seriously afflicted by corruption and dependency as a result of the 14-year civil war. Per capita income rose from $80 at the end of the second civil war in 2003 to $700, though the population increased by nearly 50% to just under 5 million. Madam Sirleaf: “To get Liberia moving in the right direction took determination. Civil society was the key driver of democracy. The legislature was not that supportive of the democratic process as they were mainly focused on retaining their own interests.

MONROVIA – The Senate Foreign Affairs Committee has recommended to plenary of the Senate to vote in favor of its report calling for the confirmation of Mr. Dee-Maxwell Kemayah as Minister of Foreign Affairs the republic of Liberia. Kemayah told the Committee that the allegation was a mere “takedown campaign” instigated against him for political reasons. That in as much as sexual harassment is grave, it requires full and detailed investigation,” the Committee noted. During his second appearance before the Senate Committee, Mr. Kemayah termed the allegation of sexual harassment against him as a “takedown campaign” that was planned against him even before his nomination as Minister of Foreign Affairs designate. Kemayah first faced the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee on Monday, Senator Dan Morais, (Maryland County-IND) chairman of Committee called off confirmation proceeding for until the allegation of sexual harassment against him is looked into.