A bill to establish a vocation and technical institute in Ganta has been approved by the Senate after having left the House of Representatives in March 2014.
OP-ED: Amid Liberia’s Acute Health Care Needs, a Criminal Syndicate at JFK
A big news story emerged last week in Monrovia, at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center, the nation’s biggest hospital. What has surfaced is news of a criminal syndicate at JFK, which has managed to defraud the health facility of about US$500,000.
The Burial Teams: Stopping West Africa’s First Ebola Epidemic
Like a wildfire, Ebola spread from Nzerekore, a remote area of south-eastern Guinea to the capital, Conakry, and then bordering Liberia and Sierra Leone. Kindled with desolation, the killer did not discriminate; it affected the young and old, the rich and poor, the secular and religious.
Liberia’s Under 20 Team Falls Flat at Home
Liberia’s under 20 football team on Sunday, April 3, lost to their Guinean counterparts 2-0 at the Antoinette Tubman Stadium in Central Monrovia.
Mandingo and Mano Vow to End Land Disputes through Dialogue
A group of leaders from the Mandingo and Mano tribes recently held a town hall meeting to resolve a series of land issues involving members of both tribes.
Book Review: Political Commentary and Reflections on Liberia
Liberian political commentators are in abundance in this day and age, but few are writing books that Liberians must read.
OP-ED: How to Write About Liberia – The Financial Times Example
A recent “Lunch with the FT†piece, featuring an interview of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf by David Pilling, the paper’s newly minted Africa editor, stands out as a sterling example of the failure of international journalists to capture the complexity and diversity of influences that shape Liberian society.
Vandalark Patricks Was Hospitalized for Injury Incurred in Custody
Advocate Vandalark Patricks, who was recently arrested and charged for sedition and criminal libel against President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and later released from Monrovia Central Prison on bail, has been hospitalized at the S.O.S. Medical Center in Congo Town.