Liberia: PLP Leader Cassell Embraced in Clara Town
The Clara Town community is one of the strongholds of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) of President George Manneh Weah. Speaking at a program marking his official visitation to the community, Dr. Cassell made a commitment of L$500, 000 each to youths and marketers in the community. He disclosed that the money will be used to ensure that less fortunate young people residing in the Clara Town Community acquire education, especially vocational and technical training programs. They observed that Dr. Cassell remains the only Liberian politician who continues to buttress government’s efforts through various interventions instead of being a “loud-speaking” politician who normally criticizes government. They, however, vowed to constructively work with and join the PLP to actualize the ambition of Dr. Cassell.
Source:Front Page Africa
September 14, 2021 08:59 UTC
Liberia: Boakai 2023 “Tact Team” Launched
REUTERS/Thierry GouegnonPaynesville City – A group of young professional home and abroad have formed themselves into a group named and styled the “Boakai Tact team”. The Tact Team 2023 main objective is to ensure that the former VP Boakai lead the CPP ticket for the 2023 elections. The Tact Team was launched minutes after the Unity Party (UP) and Collaborating Political Parties endorsed former VP Boakai as aspirant for the CPP ticket. The former Vice President Boakai stated that this is not the time for Liberians to sit and complain but to join the opposition to ensure victory. “I am insisting that we remain united and trying to push the collaboration forward.”Making brief remarks, the chairman of Tact Team 2023, J. Cyrus Saygbe, disclosed plans of the Tact Team in coming days which will include incorporating members who believe in the ideology of former VP Boakai.
Source:Front Page Africa
September 14, 2021 08:58 UTC
Liberia: FAO Concludes A Two-Day Training Of Enumerators For Conduct Of A National Food Supply, Agricultural Livelihoods, Food Security Survey
MONROVIA – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Liberia in collaboration with the Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geo Information Services (LISGIS) on Thursday 8th September concluded a two-day training of 32 enumerators for the conduct of Food Supply, Agricultural Livelihoods and Food Security Monitoring Survey in the context of COVID-19 (Round Three) in Liberia. According to FAO’s Data Analyst/ Statistician, Jacob B. Kolleh, the survey seeks to understand the impact of COVID-19 pandemic and other periodic shocks on agricultural production, rural livelihoods, market flows, and food security in Liberia. ‘’Many of such food security related surveys have been undertaken in the past with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization in Liberia over the years’’, concludes the Director General of LISGIS. In his overview, Statistician Jacob Kolleh, said the enumerators training comprised of drilling the enumerators through the reference sheets for targeted interviewees/ respondents, administration of questions, FAO’s general training principles, familiarization of Kobo content, practice and sample data collection among others. ‘’Thereafter, the survey data collected will be imputed and analysed within one month to be able to come out with the survey findings,’’ said the FAO Statistician.
Source:Front Page Africa
September 13, 2021 23:59 UTC
Union of Liberian Associations in the Americas Donates Star Base COVID-19 Treatment Unit
MONROVIA – The Union of Liberian Associations in the Americas (ULAA) has donated 20 tanks of Oxygen to the Star Base COVID-19 Treatment Unit. Mr. Kanneh stated that “It has been a lot of challenge since this pandemic started but, by the grace of God, we are here today. “We thought it wise to be a part of what God is doing in this time and in this season, a part of saving lives” Mr. Kanneh added. For her part, Mrs. Lucy Wilson Kear, COVID-19 Taskforce Chairperson in a statement said, “I lost my relative because of not having adequate equipment from the ELWA Hospital last year July”. “It was because of the lack of adequate equipment that my sister lost her life last year July 3rd so, I’m grateful to be part of the donation today,” Mrs. Kear lamented.”
Source:Front Page Africa
September 13, 2021 23:59 UTC
Liberia: New Hope Academy Honors Best Performing Students, Teachers
Assistant Minister Kweme informed the audience that the Ministry of Education (MoE) is dedicated to enforcing its laws and policies including the approved academic calendar which every stakeholder must abide by. He noted that it is MoE’s law that a student in 9th grade must complete high school in that school and a 12th grade student is not allowed to move to another school across the country. New Hope Academy, which has, as its Motto: “Sound Mind & Good Moral,” a kindergarten to 12 grade high school is an education pilot project of the Better Future Foundation (BFF). Also, according to academic statistics, ten of the 14 top performing students (constituting 71%) for the year are girls, while the other four (constituting 29%) are boys. These achievements, according to Mr. Arkoi, are a result of BFF’s continuous advocacy/programs aimed at promoting female enrolment and retention in school.
Source:Front Page Africa
September 13, 2021 23:45 UTC
To Promote Native Culture, Others: Columbus-based Liberians Ready to Build Community Center in Ohio
Columbus, Ohio – Liberians residing in Columbus, Ohio, USA, are set to embark upon constructing a community center, which will be aimed at, among other things, promoting the culture of their nativity. The project is being undertaken by Liberians under the banner, Liberians In Columbus Incorporated (LICI). And the Liberian Community Center is expected to play a vital role in overall development of Liberians in Columbus. However, the idea of a community center excited our members, and they bought into this project. Liberians In Columbus Inc is the de facto organization for Liberians residing in Central Ohio since the early 1980s.
Source:Front Page Africa
September 13, 2021 23:34 UTC
Liberia: Two Dead, Several Others Wounded in Tragic Accident on Monrovia-Buchanan Highway
Liberia: Two Dead, Several Others Wounded in Tragic Accident on Monrovia-Buchanan HighwayBuchanan, Grand Bassa – At least two persons have been confirmed dead and several others wounded in a tragic vehicle accident on Monrovia-Buchanan highway. The accident occurred during the evening hours on Monday, September 13,2021 in St. John City . A gray vehicle transporting passengers from Monrovia to Buchanan ran into a truck that was headed for Monrovia. Two persons, the driver and a female passenger from the gray vehicle died instantly, according to medical practitioners that arrived on the scene, while several others we rushed at the Liberian Government Hospital in Buchanan. Two were later transferred to Monrovia due to their condition.
Source:Front Page Africa
September 13, 2021 19:39 UTC
Liberia: UNFPA Dedicates Modern Maternal Waiting Home in Bahn, Nimba County
Bahn, Nimba County – The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has dedicated a modern maternal waiting home for pregnant women who live far from health facilities in that part of Nimba County. The modern maternal waiting home, which is comprised of bedrooms for pregnant women, nurses’ station and a delivery room will help to reduce maternal mortality in Zoe Geh District. We also called on you the people of Bahn to bring all pregnant women at the waiting home for delivery. She also assured the administration of the Bahn Health Center of an increased budgetary allocation in the pending fiscal year. The maternal waiting home home brings to two, major projects undertaken by UNFPA this year in Bahn.
Source:Front Page Africa
September 13, 2021 12:11 UTC
Liberia: Arcelor Mittal Chairman Announces Latest US$800 Million Additional Investment Package Sets to Boost Economy, Create Thousands of Jobs
The expansion of our operations is expected to generate thousands of jobs for the local population during the construction and operating phases. ArcelorMittal signed a landmark agreement in 2005, becoming the first public international company to come to Liberia after years of unrest. Since arriving in the country, ArcelorMittal has been helping to educate and train people for the specific skills needed for the mining sector. “We built roads and railways, we helped set up schools and hospitals – and slowly but surely mining in Liberia came back to life. As Chairman of the company, I am delighted that we can make this contribution to the country and your people.
Source:Front Page Africa
September 13, 2021 10:23 UTC
Liberia: Massaquoi War Crimes Trial Resumes in Monrovia
The Liberia courtroom in March credit: Hanna NordenswanMONROVIA — The trial of Gibril Massaquoi, the former Revolutionary United Front commander accused of murder, aggravated rape and aggravated war crimes during the 1999-2003 civil war in Liberia, returns to Monrovia this week. In March 2020, the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) arrested him in a Tampere parking lot after investigating his suspected links to war crimes in Liberia. Massaquoi and members of his family were living in Finland under a special agreement with the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone to which Massaquoi had testified against fellow combatants. The trial began in Finland in February but moved to Liberia and then Sierra Leone for three months to hear from witnesses and visit the scenes of the alleged crimes in Waterside, Monrovia and Lofa County. Finnish prosecutors had believed that his suspected crimes ended by March 2003 when Massaquoi, who had agreed to testify against his former brothers-in-arms, moved to the Sierra Leone Special Court Shelter in Freetown.
Source:Front Page Africa
September 13, 2021 10:16 UTC
Liberia: First Lady Admonishes 2021 WASSCE Candidates
MONROVIA – Over forty-two thousand 12th graders across Liberia are today, September 10, 2021, writing the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE). The examination which runs for about two weeks is an evaluation administered annually in the West African Sub-region. The First Lady also cautions the 2021 WASSCE candidates to refrain from any form of examination fraud. Meanwhile, First Lady Clar extends deepest condolences to the families of staffers of the West African Examinations Council, WAEC- Liberia who lost their lives in the Niko Ivanka shipwreck. The WAEC – Liberia staffers among others were headed to Maryland County, Southeastern Liberia with consignments of exam materials to administer the exams in that part of the country when the vessel, Niko Ivanka, sank at sea.
Source:Front Page Africa
September 12, 2021 10:30 UTC
Liberia: A Sudden Surrender to Utopian Forces or Unenlightened Foes? – A Tribute to Comrade Vallai M. Dorley alias Chairman Mao
His sudden surrender has not only triggered a skeptic scene but it has also rattled a new generation of emerging scholars in Liberia. Vallai M. Dorley alias Chairman Mao was indeed a gentle soul and a gallant soldier. The Trade Economist and Public Policy Specialist has left behind a hole of woes. Your favorite quotation, “One day, one day” has now been recoined or rephrased into “Last day, last day”. But one day, one day, your unenlightened foes shall succumb too, for death is an inescapable misfortune of mankind.
Source:Front Page Africa
September 11, 2021 21:45 UTC
Block Voting
There’s been a lot of talk about Block Voting (BV) in the last few days. BV, within the context of our discussion, is essentially a mechanism to strengthen the positioning of a particular political party or candidate, whether fairly or unfairly. The results in this process are usually much more proportional to the actual value that the candidate represents to the voting pool. In order to see any logic in this idea, one has to ask themselves several questions, among which are: (1) “Why?”, (2) What is the real fear that is driving this need to shift from democratic voting to mandated voting? Do not allow anybody to muddy the waters on this issue and tell you that this is about support for a political party or candidate – it simply is not.
Source:Daily Observer
September 11, 2021 20:15 UTC
Liberia: Cummings Steps Up Pressure In CPP To Obey the Law; Declines UP’s Invitation To Attend “Endorsement”
MONROVIA – The political leader of the Alternative National Congress (ANC), a constituent member of the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP), Mr. Alexander Cummings, has turned down an invitation from the Unity Party (UP) to attend the program marking the endorsement and presentation of VP Joseph N. Boakai as the Unity Party’s Aspirant for the Standard Bearer of the Collaborating Political Party (CPP). “I am constrained to decline your invitation at this time due to a number of concerns with the process which led to the program. “To the Alternative National Congress (ANC), the Core Values and Guiding Principles of the CPP are not without legal force and moral effect. In addition, they define the deeper values of our commitments to each other, and our pledge to the Liberian people for a better Liberia. There has been simmering internal wrangling withing CPP of late leading to the Collaboration’s much anticipated convention later this year.
Source:Front Page Africa
September 11, 2021 14:12 UTC
ArcelorMittal, GoL Signs Landmark Agreement
The expansion project – which encompasses processing, rail and port facilities – will be one of the largest mining projects in West Africa. Economic benefitsAs the largest foreign investor in Liberia, ArcelorMittal Liberia has invested over $1.7 billion in the country over the past 15 years. As part of the expansion, ArcelorMittal Liberia has also launched a training and development program for high potential Liberian employees who will gain on-the-job experience and knowledge in ArcelorMittal Mining operations globally. In 2020, ArcelorMittal had revenues of $53.3 billion and crude steel production of 71.5 million metric tonnes, while iron ore production reached 58.0 million metric tonnes. This is what we believe it takes to be the steel company of the future.
Source:Daily Observer
September 10, 2021 20:26 UTC