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Q&A with Environmental Activist/Engineer Morris T. Koffa, Executive Director, Africa Environmental Watch (AEW)

Q&A with Environmental Activist/Engineer Morris T. Koffa, Executive Director, Africa Environmental Watch (AEW)

By Tewroh-Wehtoe Sungbeh        Q&A with Environmental Activist/Engineer Morris T. Koffa, Executive Director, Africa Environmental Watch (AEW), a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization established to respond to environmental distress in Liberia, and also to provide environmental expertise in Africa through educational awareness and behavioral change communication. Q. You have been an environmental advocate for [...]

May 7, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post
Why Charles Taylor’s war crimes judgment seems like A travesty of justice to Liberians

Why Charles Taylor’s war crimes judgment seems like A travesty of justice to Liberians

By Moco McCaulay      On April 26, 2012, the former leader of a small African nation and a feared ex-rebel leader who spread terror in his country and across West Africa—but seemed above-the-law—was finally cut to size by the swashbuckling sword of Lady Justice. It was a day that international news media heralded as: “the [...]

May 4, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post
Karngar-Lawrence is poised to be Grand Bassa County’s first female senator

Karngar-Lawrence is poised to be Grand Bassa County’s first female senator

Your browser must support javascript. By Moses Owen Browne, Jr.   Grand Bassa County may soon have its first female senator in Mrs. Yornblee Karngar-Lawrence, who is currently working as a Public Relations Specialist at the Liberia Petroleum Refinery Company (LPRC). Karngar-Lawrence is campaigning for the Liberian senate on three thematic areas, which she outlined as [...]

April 25, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post
Stop scapegoating Grand Gedeh County

Stop scapegoating Grand Gedeh County

                         By Cyrus S. Cooper, II   The Ellen Johnson Sirleaf administration has established an anti-Grand Gedeh County campaign designed to scapegoat the peaceful people of our county, for the government’s failure to provide basic social services to the Liberian public. The people of Grand Gedeh county has no plan to wage war on Liberia like [...]

April 11, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post
Gov’t cuts incentive for Health Workers in Gbarpolu

Gov’t cuts incentive for Health Workers in Gbarpolu

- Staff Writer          Voluntary health workers (VHWs) in Gbarma District, Gbarpolu County are now experiencing reduction in their monthly incentive giving by the Government of Liberia (GoL). In a chat with this writer, Mr. J. Mammoh Jah II, a lab assistant at the Gbarma Clinic, said the incentive for the VHWs has been cut [...]

March 5, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post
“A time for transformation?”

“A time for transformation?”

By Tewroh-Wehtoe Sungbeh               President Sirleaf’s vision for transforming Liberia took a rhetorical twist during her Annual Message to the 53rd National Legislature recently when she spoke of “a time for transformation” in a nation besieged by abject poverty, nepotism, record unemployment, rampant corruption and violent crime. Even as Sirleaf carefully mapped out a strategy [...]

February 4, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post
How George Weah and Samuel Tweah screwed the CDC over

How George Weah and Samuel Tweah screwed the CDC over

By: Paul Paulay Jackson- elpaulay@gmail.com               Contributing Writer It is more than just a coincidence that only the letter “T” separates the name “Tweah” from “Weah”, or is there something more sinister to this political bromance between these two CDC stalwarts? It seems the CDC, through some of its powerful members have begun outsourcing its political [...]

February 1, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post
Forest, mines, farmland: Liberia is for sale

Forest, mines, farmland: Liberia is for sale

MONROVIA (AFP) – Liberia is selling itself slice by slice nine years after a terrible civil conflict finally came to an end, offering valuable resources to the highest bidder even though that could kindle tension among a population that often feels it is being sold out.      The chairman of the Liberia Land Commission, Othello Brandy, [...]

January 30, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post
Development funds without development

Development funds without development

By Tewroh-Wehtoe Sungbeh                 The annual disbursement of development funds is a big deal in Liberian politics. It is a way the heavily centralized and imperial national government doles out funds to an appointed official or officials in a particular county in the name of constructing needed projects, which wouldn’t have gotten any [...]

January 26, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post
Oxymoron about Liberian political progressives: The noisy silence

Oxymoron about Liberian political progressives: The noisy silence

By Moses  Blonkanjay Jackson            In my Thinking Thoughts and introspection about the month of January, I consider how the 16th is set aside by the people of the United States of America as Dr. Martin Luther King Day, one of the world’s foremost progressives and advocates for equality and social justice. It then occurred [...]

January 18, 2013 | 0 comments | View Post
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