By Clemente Ferrer The Court of Justice of the European Parliament adopted a dictum by which embryonic cells must be legally regarded as human embryos, since they are capable of developing into a human being. Human life begins from the first moment of conception. The human embryo has a life of its own. Benigno [...]
By D. Garkpe Gedepoh As a child, I was privileged to have met Sherman Brown, the radio and television legend when I frequented the Ministry of Information where my mother worked at the time. Like Jonathan Reffell, G. Henry Andrews, Joseph Gbayou and Jesse Karnley, Sherman Brown became a household word in radio [...]
By. Tewroh-Wehtoe Sungbeh The pictures from the Sierra Leonean civil war are graphic. They are of children with no arms or legs crawling or attempting to crawl. They are of women with chemicals or some type thrown in their eyes or on some other parts of their body. The pictures are also of grown men; [...]
By. Tewroh-Wehtoe Sungbeh The community of Clara Town on Bushrod Island, between Freeport and Waterside – with the community of Gibraltar next door, has a special place in my heart. Before I went to Sinoe County for mission schools in the early 70s, I spent a whole lot of time in that part of Monrovia [...]
May 2, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
By. Tewroh-Wehtoe Sungbeh A key grievance against the Tolbert administration enunciated by the People’s Redemption Council (PRC) after the 1980 military coup d’etat was the president appointing his family members to key positions in his administration. The modern day English word for that grieveable offense is nepotism; meaning, “patronage bestowed or favoritism shown on the basis of [...]
April 15, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
By. Moses Owen Browne Jr. President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf first appointed Mary Broh as Special Project Coordinator a little over six years ago. Because the entire city was so bad and crowded with makeshift market structures; huge trees, street peddlers, gangs, car loaders, and shoe shine boys, her job was basically to clean the city, [...]
May 9, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
By. Clemente Ferrer Breast surgery is the second most executed esthetic intervention around the world. A lot of women are asking themselves if their prosthetics is the Prosthesis Poly Implant (PIP), which has been withdrawn from the market (www.pipfrance.fr). Galician authorities found that a company was producing a type of silicone prosthesis that was [...]
May 2, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
CLWG’s Sue Yancy Williams, (foreground) getting ready to distribute supplies to Liberian children and their parents in Owensgrove, Grand Bassa County, Liberia in 2011. In December 2011, the President of the group, Mrs. Sue Williams went to Liberia with a consignment of clothing, notebooks, pencils and toys to be distributed among needy children of [...]
April 23, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
LAMA 6961 Peachtree Industrial Blvd. Suite 224 Norcross, GA 30092 Email:lib.communityga@gmail.com / Website: www.lama-atl.org OFFICE OF PRESIDENT LAMA PRESS RELEASE Atlanta, GA (April 6, 2012): The Liberian Community Association of Metropolitan Atlanta (LAMA) is greatly disappointed by the tone of the recent commentary in the Liberian Dialogue by Mr. Sungbeh, which sought to dismiss as [...]
April 22, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
By. Morris Koffa The EPA is mandated to protect the human health and well being of the Liberian people and others living within in our jurisdiction. This directive also includes the protection of our ecosystem and biodiversity to include our species and waterways, the air we breathe as well- so the emphasis while on [...]
April 21, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
By. Clemente Ferrer When the State gets involved in family matters, some feel a certain embarrassment and suspicion since “home” is considered to be a great sanctuary of one’s personal privacy. However, there are countries which traditionally provide support and incentives for the family, such as France, which is at the forefront of overall [...]
April 20, 2012 | 0 comments | View Post
