Liberia Records 7th Coronavirus Case; Assistant Public Works Minister Among Latest
James Reynold has been reported to test positive of coronavirus and is currently under quarantine at the 14 Military HospitalMONROVIA – The Minister of Information Lenn Eugene Nagbe has disclosed to FrontPageAfrica that James Reynold, Assistant Minister for Planning and Programming at the Ministry of Public Works, is the latest to be tested positive for the coronavirus. FrontPageAfrica further gathered that the Minister of Public Works, Mobotu Vlah Nyepan, may have come into contact with Reynolds, but FrontPageAfrica has not been able to verify whether the Minister has been quarantined. Meanwhile, the National Public Health Institute has come under criticisms for refusing to disclose the identities of those recently tested positive for the virus. However, authorities of NPHIL say stigmatization of victims in communities is the reason they have stopped naming victims. However, some citizens believe that Liberia being a very small country, hiding the identities of the those infected could lead to more infections and could adversely impact contact tracing.
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April 03, 2020 15:33 UTC
Liberian pastor, 54, billed for raping 14-yr-previous church member
The Dean of the Gbarnga School of Theology and Senior Pastor of the United Methodist Church in Gbarnga, Liberia Rev. He is becoming accused of allegedly raping the now 15-yr-previous girl on numerous situations, from September 2019 by early 2020. Karyeah by WACPS in Gbarnga. Nevertheless, the alleged rape circumstance against Rev Karyeah has taken a toll on the Gbarnga College of Theology and made a rift between his church customers who are divided. A United Nations report claimed up to a few quarters of ladies and ladies have been raped with little ones beneath the age of five amongst all those sexually attacked in Liberia.
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April 03, 2020 15:21 UTC
Liberia: Pres. Weah Withdraws NEC Nominee, Looks for Possible Replacement as Prominent Names Under Consideration
Information gathered revealed that President Weah is already in consultation with some of the individuals recommended to him for possible consideration as Chairman of the National Elections Commission. Counselor Warner is a member of the Liberian National Bar Association, the New York Bar Association, Board of Examiner of the Supreme Court Bar, Republic of Liberia, among others. Tiawan Gongloe heads the Liberia National Bar Association. As a graduate of the University of Liberia’s Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law, Gongloe was a lawyer and managing director of a law firm in Monrovia from 1994 until 2002. Following the end of the civil war in 1997, Gongloe emerged as one of Liberia ‘s preeminent human rights lawyers.
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April 03, 2020 07:18 UTC
Liberia: Rep. Richard Koon Wants Imposition of Curfew in Montserrado, Margibi Counties Amid Increased COVID-19 Cases
The proposed curfew, Rep. Koon said should run from 9 p.m to 6 a.m., and medical and security personnel, as well as journalists should be exempted from the curfew. Rep. Koon’s request comes in the wake of an already existing national health emergency instituted by Health Minister Dr. Wilhelmina S. Jallah, declaring Montserrado and Margibi Counties infected areas. The ban also covers all religious services, bars, night clubs, casinos, betting centers, cinemas, video clubs, entertainment centers, private and public beaches, barber shops and beauty salons. “People are still meeting in night clubs and other entertainment centers and are overlooking this thing [COVID-19]. In his communication, Rep. Koon noted that although the virus has not widely spread as compared to other countries, there is need to introduce tougher measures to avert the spread of the virus.
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April 03, 2020 07:07 UTC
Liberia: Nat Blama, Others Likely to Leave Quarantine Soon
According to the Chief Medical Officer of Liberia Dr. Francis Kateh, based upon the second tests results carried out on the first three confirmed cases, health authorities will decide whether or not to inform the public. So we are taking time to learn this disease, we will also communicate with them frequently so that we do not make any mistakes,” disclosed Dr. Kateh. Meanwhile, Liberia’s Chief Medical Officer has also disclosed that they [health authorities] have begun testing all of those under quarantine at the various POCs. Once the first three cases are confirmed negative, the country will be left with three confirmed cases. The National Public Health Institute of Liberia has also reported that there are 496 contacts including 78 health workers who have been documented.
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April 03, 2020 07:07 UTC
Liberia: Waterside Market Takes New Shape Less than A Week After Demolition of Stalls
Liberia: Waterside Market Takes New Shape Less than A Week After Demolition of StallsMany stores at the Waterside Market being painted by red, white and blueMonrovia – Stores owners at the Waterside Market have begun painting their buildings after the Monrovia City Corporation (MCC) demolished market stalls that were placed on sidewalks in front of these stores. Waterside Market, the biggest commercial area in Central Monrovia, is known for its overcrowdedness. MCC demolished marketers’ stalls that were placed in front of stores at the Waterside Market. After the demolition, MCC mandated every store owner to paint the doors of their stores red, white, and blue – the country’s national colors. Before the demolition, there were market tables in front of stores, making it difficult for shoppers to access these stores.
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April 03, 2020 07:06 UTC
SHED, RHRAP Donate Anti- COVID Materials to Liberia Bureau of Corrections For Prisons In Bong and Margibi Counties
SHED, RHRAP Donate Anti- COVID Materials to Liberia Bureau of Corrections For Prisons In Bong and Margibi CountiesMonrovia – The Bureau of Corrections and Rehabilitation of the Ministry of Justice has received materials worth over US$2,000 from its partners to help prevent the spread of Coronavirus in three prisons in the country. The donors are the Ministry of Justice’s partners, who are working to strengthen the justice system and also provide support to prison facilities and inmates. Through the partners, prisoners’ rights are promoted by strengthening the capacities of justice actors and promoting adherence to national and international standards for prisoners. The implementing organizations are Serving Humanity for Empowerment and Development (SHED), Rural Human Rights Activist Program (RHRAP) and the Finn Church Aid. “The reason why we are in the field is to support your [BCR] efforts — is to buttress your efforts.
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April 03, 2020 06:56 UTC
UCI Donates Rice, Sanitary Materials To Selected Communities, Groups As Contribution Towards Fight Against COVID-19
UCI Donates Rice, Sanitary Materials To Selected Communities, Groups As Contribution Towards Fight Against COVID-19Monrovia – One of Liberia’s leading rice importers, United Commodities Incorporated (UCI), in its bid to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus in Liberia has donated food and non-food items to selected communities and institutions. About UCIThe United Commodities Incorporated has been a major rice trading entity in Liberia with a solid network of international and local partners since 2009. Founded in 2008, UCI is an international soft commodities trading company with its headquarters in Monrovia, the Liberian Capital. Rice trading has a worldwide volume in excess of 30 million tons a year. The company, in a statement issued said, this is a significant market as Africa imports some 3.3 million tons of brown sugar and 4.3 million tons of white sugar each year.
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April 03, 2020 06:56 UTC
Liberia: St. Kizito Catholic Church Donates Food, Sanitary Materials to Several Communities In Paynesville In Response To COVID-19
Liberia: St. Kizito Catholic Church Donates Food, Sanitary Materials to Several Communities In Paynesville In Response To COVID-19The St. Kizito Catholic Church will today distribute food and hygienic materials to needy residents of several communities in Paynesville. It can be recalled that during the Ebola pandemic in Liberia in 2014, the St. Kizito Catholic Church rendered similar gesture to the communities within Paynesville. The release noted that the Church, through its charity and welfare committee provides quarterly distribution of food items and other assorted supplies to housebound parishioners, residents in need and the elderly, among others. As an obligation to practice the corporal works of mercy, the St. Kizito Catholic Church reaches out to parishioners, communities, the sick, elderly and prisoners, among others. Since its establishment on June 3, 1982 the St. Kizito Catholic Church, through the catholic faith continues to evangelize, reach out and touch the lives of more than ten thousand Liberians, including non-Catholics at home and abroad.
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April 03, 2020 06:45 UTC
Liberia: Civil Society Group Praises Cummings for Going Through Quarantine
As Mr. Cummings endured these humiliations from state security ensuing fro his submission to the need to respect public health in the face of a very contagious menace, the National Civil Society Union of Liberia (NACSUL) made two radio appearances to condemn the ruffian and unmannerly posture assumed by state security against Mr. Cummings. Thus, today as Mr. Cummings has successfully ended his days in observed quarantine and has been certified as being unaffected by the COVID 19, the National Civil Society Union of Liberia (NACSUL) wishes to congratulate Mr. Cummings for his patriotic posture, patience and profound sensibility to the effect of the virus for which he admitted to quarantine unquestioningly. The nominee Cllr. By the same token we call on the Senate to similarly reject the President nominee Cllr. Mr. Cummings gesture toward the orphans is laudable, and we plead that such must not be the end but the beginning.
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April 03, 2020 06:45 UTC
Liberia: Dr. Watta Siah Camano Lauds Varney Taylor Foundation for Donation of 50 (25kg) Bags of Rice to JFK
50 bags of 25-kg rice donated by the Varney Taylor Foundation to the John F. Kennedy Medical CenterMONROVIA – A senior medical officer at the nation’s biggest referral hospital, JFK Medical Center, Dr. Sia Watta Camanor, has commended the Varney Taylor Foundation for the donation of 50 bags of 25-kg rice to the hospital. Dr. Camanor told the Foundation’s representative that there can be “No health without food.” She expressed the hospital’s administration gratefulness to the foundation. Dr. Camanor, who represented for her boss, Dr. Jerry Browne, said it is worth celebrating those who sacrifice their little earnings in order to contribute to the survival of patients. On behalf of the Varney Taylor Foundation (VTf), Mr. Vamuyan Sheriff presented the rice and assured JFK of the Foundation’s continuous love and support. “The chief financier to the Varney Taylor Foundation is our own.
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April 03, 2020 06:45 UTC
ArcelorMittal Donates To Grand Bassa Major Public Hospital
Buchanan, Grand Bassa County – The Management of ArcelorMittal Liberia on Wednesday, April 1, presented a cash amount of US$5,000.00 to the “Help Save Liberian Government Hospital” Committee. Earlier this year, the committee wrote several communications to institutions including ArcelorMittal Liberia seeking support for the hospital in the absence of Government’s allotments. “ArcelorMittal has continuously proven that safety is part of their functions and so they have come again and this time they’ve brought cash to help our hospital. “I want to make it clear here, this money is meant for the hospital and nothing else but the hospital. Jerry Garyeazohn, Acting Chairman of the committee to save the hospital, also praised the company for its “timely gesture” to the people of Grand Bassa.
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April 03, 2020 06:45 UTC
BREAKING: President Weah Withdraws Nwabudike’s Nomination
President Weah has withdrawn the nomination for the NEC Chair-designate post of Cllr. A. Ndubusi Nwabudike (pictured)Monrovia – President George Manneh Weah has heeded the advice of FrontPageAfrica and has written Senate Protemp Albert Chea informing the Senate that he (Weah) is withdrawing the nomination of the National Elections Commission (NEC) Chair-designate, Cllr. A. Ndubusi Nwabudike. In this newspaper’s April 1, 2020 Editorial titled: ‘To Avoid The Many Backlashes, Just Withdraw His Nomination, Mr. President’, we advise the President to do just what he did today. Edwin K. Martin, Chairperson-designate, Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission, respectively.”From that Friday, March 20, when the President made the nomination of Cllr.
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April 02, 2020 23:48 UTC
Liberia: Three Teenage Girls Voluntarily Get Involved in Combating Covid-19
Knowing that Liberia has three confirmed cases does not give us peace; we are working to stop the spread,” Ms. Gwaikolo said. That alone motivates us to continue doing what we are doing,” said the 17-year-old Ms. Gwaikolo. Kormassa Vankpannah is a freshman student at the Adventist University of West Africa. Ms. Vankpannah wishes to become a Pediatrician. Ms. Faraj told this newspaper that they do take all the preventive measure seriously as they go about their awareness campaign.
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April 02, 2020 12:00 UTC
Liberia: Deputy Minister Todd Presents Hand Wash Buckets to CDC District #6 Office
Deputy Public Works Minister Joseph Todd handling the buckets over to the ruling party’s Montserrado County’s District #6 representative Amadu D. BilityPaynesville City – Deputy Minister for Administration at the Ministry of Public Works, Mr. Joseph Todd, has presented over 200 handwashing buckets to the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) District #6 headquarters in Paynesville. What Ebola did to us in this country we cannot afford to go that route,” the Deputy Public Works Minister said. The virus is an enemy that we cannot physically see,” Minister Todd said. The best we can do is follow the health protocols,” Minister Todd urged. Bility said the district office has over 300 people who they trained to carry out awareness about the virus the district.
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April 02, 2020 11:48 UTC