Author: Godfred Badu Quansah

An institution with a focus to ensure every Liberian child gets access to excellent and world-class education has launched its third leadership development fellowship. The launch of the third cohort for the fellowship on August 15, 2022, is to ensure that every child has access to quality education by increasing the number of qualified teachers in the classrooms and leaders in the community that can generate long-term change. According to Alicia-Ann Caesar, the new Chief Executive Officer of Teach For Liberia (TFL), Teach For Liberia’s mission is to build a movement to expand educational opportunities by enlisting Liberia’s most promising…

The Executive Chairman of the National Heritage Party along with some officials has officially joined the Movement for Progressive Change headed by Businessman turn politicians Simeon Freeman. According to Dr. Somah Paiygai, the Movement for Progressive Change is the only Alternative that can deliver Liberia from the current failed state of the economy and called on citizens to support Simeon Freeman and the MPC for a better Liberia. He said the decision taken by him and some members of the Heritage Party by crossing over to the Movement for Progressive Change is based on the vision of the political leader…

The Central Bank of Liberia has officially launched an awareness Campaign for a $48.74billion Liberian dollars new currency bank note in Gbarnga City-Bong county. The Launch brought together Officials of government, Civic society organizations, Representative from the United Nations, the European Union, the United States, African Union, National Traditional Council of Liberia, Religious Communities, Liberia Bankers Association, officials of the Liberia Marketing Association, Officials of the National Federation of Motorcycle and Tricycle Association of Liberia, Money Exchangers Union, Development Partners amongst other. Speaking at the occasion, the Central Bank of Liberia Governor J. Aloysius Tarlue Lauded the people of Bong…

The Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Liberia has donated one thousand bags of rice and other food items to the Ministry of Education to be given to schools as a means of supporting the school feeding program in Liberia. The government of Liberia and its partners are fully supporting school-going children with food as they attend classes. The program is intended to help keep children in school, especially children whose parents can not really provide lunch for them whiles in school. The donation includes rice, and vegetable oil among other items, the donation was made on Friday,…

The People’s Republic of China through its Embassy in Congo Town Liberia has promised more infrastructure in Liberia. Speaking at the ceremony marking the departure of the first batch of 190 Liberian scholars to China to study in diverse fields, Chinese Ambassador to Liberia, Ambassador Ren Yisheng praised the Biliterial relationship between the two countries. Outlining so of China’s contribution to Liberia, Amb. Yisheng said in recent years, under the framework of the Belt & Road Initiative(BRI) advocated by President Xi Jinping and the “Pro-poor Agenda for Prosperity and Development”(PAPD) advocated by President George Manneh Weah, China-Liberia cooperation has achieved…

About five hundred teachers from across Montserrado County have benefited from five days content knowledge and subject peer review training geared towards building their capacity in Monrovia. The training which started on Monday was organized by the Monrovia Consolidated School System. The five days content knowledge and subject peer review training gear towards building the capacity of instructors at all Monrovia Consolidated School System has ended in Monrovia. The training which started on Monday was organized by the Monrovia Consolidated School System and brought together about five hundred teachers from across Montserrado County. In a remark at the climax of…

Justice online center a media research group on Friday presented a certificate of awards to the President of the Press Union of Liberia. Justice online center is a media research group established in 2018 with focused on carrying out research and major intervention on issues that concern investigative human interest. Presenting the certificate, the head of the group James Kadi said the award was in recognition of Charles Cuffey’s many advocacies in the interest of Liberian journalists. Mr. Kadi praised journalists for gathering news and reports doing the heat of the Covid-19 pandemic. In response, Mr. Charles Cuffey thanked Justice…

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Liberia, Amb. Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr., met with his Japanese counterpart, Mr. Hayashi Yoshimasa, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan on the margins of the Japan-Africa Summit of Heads of State and Government, at the Eighth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD – 8) in Tunis, Republic of Tunisia.   Foreign Minister Kemayah said on behalf of President George Manneh Weah, President of the Republic of Liberia and the Government and People of Liberia extended greetings, best wishes, and appreciation to the Government and People of Japan for TICAD-8; the USD$30…

The administration of the  Forpoh Vocational Institute in Grand Kru County says the slow pace at which the Ministry of Finance and Development  Planning is releasing its allotment is hampering the institution’s operation. The institution’s Director, Gabriel Tidoe-Teh,  indicated that in the initial stage, Senator Albert Chie single-handedly financed the administration thereby solving the problems affecting the institution when there was no money coming from the government. Addressing a press conference during the weekend, Mr. Tidoe-Teh explained that following the passage of the act establishing the institution, the administration received  75,000 United States Dollars as a subsidy under the Ministry…

The first batch of 190 Liberian Scholars to China Pre-departure ceremony was today, September 2, held at the Chinese Embassy in Congo Town. According to the Embassy, due to COVID-19 in 2020, there was no way for Liberian scholars to gain scholarships in the People’s Republic of China something which cause the increase of scholarship winners to China this year. Speaking at the ceremony, China Ambassador to Liberia, H.E. Ren Yisheng extend warm congratulations to the winners of the 2022 Chinese Government Scholarships and trainees of short- and long-term training programs. He at the same time expressed gratitude to the…