By Tewroh-Wehtoe Sungbeh Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is a former financier of a deadly civil war who got away without ever been indicted for war crimes, for her role in the 14-year civil war that ended before she was elected President of Liberia in 2005. The president’s international friends prefer not to see her that [...]
By Tewroh-Wehtoe Sungbeh I always thought the two-letter word that preceded his name was actually his first name. But it wasn’t. As a child, however, I constantly heard the press and others referred to the Liberian president at the time as “Dr. Tubman.” The dictatorial Mr. Tubman set the precedent and encouraged the Liberian people [...]
By Tewroh-Wehtoe Sungbeh This week interview features restaurateur Wilhelmina “Mina” Bestman, owner of Mina’s West African & Caribbean Cuisine, who single handedly turned the once struggling Mina’s Place/Mina’s Kitchen into a thriving and all-inclusive place to dine with families and friends. So far, Mina’s West African & Caribbean Cuisine is believed to be the longest-serving [...]
By Tewroh-Wehtoe Sungbeh Liberia needs drastic change in political leadership, is the overwhelming sentiments of most Liberians residing in and out of the country. Why? Because living and safety conditions in the country are deplorable. Liberians are suffering, period, and the country is riddled with violence, corruption, hunger and record unemployment. Sirleaf’s in denial. [...]
By Tewroh-Wehtoe Sungbeh The All Liberian Conference on Dual Citizenship and its many members in the United States, Europe, Africa, Canada and other regions of the world should be applauded for their passionate advocacy of dual citizenship for Liberians abroad. As a frequent critique of the Union of Liberian Associations in the Americas (ULAA), [...]
By Ralph Geeplay (The Liberian Listener) Tewroh-Wehtoe Sungbeh is editor of The Liberian Dialogue, an Atlanta-based web publication that is establishing itself influentially as one of post-war Liberia’s sober media entities. Sungbeh’s ‘no holds barred’ approach to journalism and commentaries on developmental issues has established The Liberian Dialogue as a significant voice on major [...]
By Tewroh Wehtoe Sungbeh A chief executive officer (CEO) recently outlined his company’s vision for the millennium. That vision “is a global one” that will expand his three-billion-dollar cable wire manufacturing business to the rest of the world. Despite his global goal, the CEO spoke confidently and enthusiastically about China as a target market for [...]
By Tewroh-Wehtoe Sungbeh Vadro Kone’ is a friend, an Ivorian, who’s never shy to discuss his days in Liberia with me. I thought I knew Liberia since it is my birth country, but when Kone’ opened his mouth to discuss his former adopted homeland, what he said reinforced my own sense of patriotism. Like [...]
By Tewroh-Wehtoe Sungbeh Right after he and his colleagues forced their way into the Executive Mansion in 1980, after a bloody coup d’ tat that suddenly changed the political landscape of Liberia, the late President Samuel Kanyon Doe got the attention of the Liberian people when he quickly spelled out his many reasons for seizing [...]
By Tewroh-Wehtoe Sungbeh Long before one of the world’s leading auditors, Ernst & Young, was appointed by the European Commission to conduct a systems and financial audit of the Liberian Petroleum Refining Company (LPRC) from the period of October 1, 2003 to June 30, 2004, most Liberians see the institution as a breeding ground for waste [...]
