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 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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
By Siahyonkron Nyanseor First, let me extend my sincere apologies to those who have been waiting for the conclusion to this series, which is Part V of “A Covenant Betrayed: Partisanship within ULAA and its Chapters, subtitled: ULAA’s toothless bulldog. In order for all readers to better understand the discussion, let me give some background. [...]
By Clemente Ferrer The research carried out by the British John B. Gurdon and the Japanese Shinya Yamanaka, parents of cell reprogramming awarded with the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 2012, have created cells whose characteristics are identical to those of embryonic cells, but without destroying human embryos. The Swedish Academy said that both Gurdon [...]
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), [...]
