Author: Godfred Badu Quansah

Monrovia, Liberia – The Liberia YMCA National Youth Council has started a project to collect 50,000 plastic bottles. The Project is anticipated to be completed in four phases and is to cost US $18, 905. The effort, according to Ebenezer Davies, the head of the Council, attempts to address Liberia’s plastic pollution problem. Davies said, the bottles gathered will be converted into Eco-Bricks and then utilized for construction at their camp site in the Todee District, Montserrado County. While highlighting the need for immediate action, project officer for the Department of Multilateral Environmental Agreements at the Environmental Protection Agency Arthur…

FOLLOWING POLICE CHARGES OF CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY AND RAISING FALSE ALARM TO LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS Monrovia, Liberia – Monrovia City  Court stipendiary Magistrate Ben Barco has remanded former Chief Justice Gloria Musu Scott and three others family members at the Monrovia Center Prison. Magistrate Barco decision followed after a writ of arrest was issued and serviced on the former Chief Justice and three others following the death of Charloe Musu. Justice Scott and others are being charged with murder, criminal conspiracy, and raising false alarms to law enforcement officers. Those three other family members charged along with Cllr. Scott includes; Rebecca Youdeh Wisner,…

Todee District, Rural Montserrado – According to a report from rural Montserrado, a 62-year-old man is accused of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl in the Todee District. According to police report, the event happened on Saturday, June 17, 2023, at the Holder Farm neighborhood in the Nyhen Clan Todee Statutory District. According to the Victim, she and her friends were going to the Hand pump for water when suspect John Gbali 62 asked them to enter his house something they refused. She narrated that before suspect John committed the act, she along with three other friends had gone to the…

Bomi County – Report from Bomi County say Liberia Drugs Enforcement Agency has arrest a high-grade marijuana worth more than UD$1 million in Bomi County. In Tubmanburg, Bomi County, the Liberia Drugs Enforcement Agency detained a 24-year-old guy named Foday Feikai for being in possession of 70 plates of high-grade marijuana with a street value of USD One Million- Fifty Thousand dollars in Tubmanburg, Bomi County according to the LDEA. Suspect Feikai is a commercial driver who travels along the Bo-waterside to Monrovia, according to Bomi County LDEA Commander Alfred Jlopleh. Agents of the LDEA made the arrest Monday night…

Monrovia, Liberia – The World Bank and the Liberian government have agreed to a loan of USD$65 million for the country’s Resilient Recovery Stand-Alone Development Policy Financing. Through the two pillars of building policy foundations in particular growth-supporting and resilience-enhancing sectors and encouraging openness and accountability in the public sector, it aims to help Liberia’s efforts to foster resilient recovery. By creating a reliable system for managing food reserve inventories, the reforms under the first pillar aim to increase inclusive growth conditions and resilience to shocks. Samuel Tweah, Liberia’s Minister of Finance, signed on behalf of the government, while Dr.…

Monrovia, Liberia – Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, foreign minister of Liberia, has urged all well-intentioned governments and nations to strongly condemn the Russian Federation for its ongoing unprovoked acts of barbarism, cruelty, and inhumanity being committed against the peaceful people of Ukraine’s government and people. According to Minister Kemayah, the government of Liberia stands with the government and people of Ukraine and the international coalition in support, sympathy, and solidarity in order to ensure that those who bear the greatest responsibility for the unjustified mayhem, brutalities, and atrocities in Ukraine are held fully accountable for their unjust and brutal actions against…

Monrovia, Liberia – The second phase of a significant information-dissemination and awareness-raising campaign on the recently updated HIV and AIDS Workplace Policy for Liberia has been completed by the Ministry of Labour in partnership with the International Labor Organization. The week-long campaign, which took place in Liberia’s Nimba and Grand Cape Mount Counties, two of the country’s most heavily populated and concession-prone regions, started on June 12 and to June 16 of 2023. The goal of the campaign was to increase public awareness of the amended policy’s provisions in an effort to reduce workplace discrimination and stop the spread of…

Gbarnga City, Bong County – A two-day orientation session for County Council members from Liberia’s fifteen sub-political divisions, organized by the Governance Commission in partnership with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, came to an end in Gbarnga. This program is part of the implementation of the Local Government Act, which was enacted into law in 2018. The objective of the training program was to strengthen local governance officials and empower County Council Members with the necessary skills and knowledge to effectively serve their communities. Speaking at the program marking the end of the training, the Chairman of the Governance Commission,…

Gold Camp, Gola Konneh District – President George Weah has received the support of thousands of inhabitants of Gold Camp, Golakonneh District in Grand Cape Mount County for a second term. The women, youths and elders said they will campaign for the Coalition for Democratic Change because of the many works President Weah has done for the country. At an endorsement ceremony held by the Mutasha Women Association in Gold Camp, Gola Konneh District, Grand Cape Mount County, the locals expressed their support for President Weah’s candidacy for a second term. Despite the large population in the town and the…

Capitol Hill, Monrovia – the Minister of Justice Cllr. Frank Musa Dean has pledged for mercy before the Supreme Court full Bench. On Tuesday, June 20, 23, the Justice Minister appeared before the Supreme Court and begs for mercy and apologized for his recent statement against the judiciary that led to his Contempt charge along with the information Minister Ledgerhood Rennie.  Minister Dean said it was not their intent to bring the court and the judiciary bench to public ridicule. Following the not-guilty verdict in favor of the four defendants in the US $100 million cocaine case, the Justice and…