The US State Department’s 2024 Business Climate Report for Liberia paints a sobering yet necessary picture of the challenges the country faces in becoming an attractive destination for foreign investment.
Our struggles as a nation have been to attain satisfactory levels of development and a robust economy that serves the development aspirations of all Liberians distributivity. But have we been able to achieve these dreams? The more we dreamed and want these, the more we are farther away from achieving them. This is pitiful and disappointing.
By Sir. George Tengbeh
Introduction
In recent weeks, the Ministry of Labour, under the leadership of Labour Minister Cllr. Cooper W. Kruah, Sr., has shown +1...
Everybody, I mean former officials who have been axed are demanding severance benefits. Some of those individuals have already been paid according to available information.
I once again extend you my warmest of greetings and wish to continue penning a few things on the on-going brouhaha concerning the imposition of the unexplained USD100 on the graduating students of the Graduate and Professional School, a situation that has the propensity to bring the university’s name to public disrepute.
I stand before you today, not just as a political leader, but as a citizen deeply concerned about good governance for the transformation of our country for the better. While we must acknowledge the efforts and accomplishments of the current administration under President Joseph Boakai, we cannot turn a blind eye to the missteps and glaring shortcomings that continue to hinder our nation’s progress.
I come in genuflection to the Almighty God, the Omnipotent, the Omniscient, and the Omnipresent, who has made this day possible. I lift profuse thanks to President Joseph Nyuma Boakai for the faith he has reposed in me by nominating me to lead our nation's fiscal house. I thank the leadership of the Honorable Liberian Senate, the Chair and members of the Ways, Means, Finance, and Budget Committee as well as the entire Liberian Senate for giving me this opportunity to discuss the vision I intend to pursue if confirmed for the position of Minister of Finance and Development Planning.
As Liberia's President Joseph Boakai embarks on numerous international trips in search of investments, the stark reality of the country's economic challenges becomes increasingly evident.
President Joseph Boakai will be spending himself from office for time indefinite based on accusation of his direct involvement in a procurement process fright with compliance failure.
Good morning, my dear friends in Liberia and beyond. I come to you today with a sobering message—a message that demands your undivided attention. If you have the eyes to truly see, the ears to genuinely listen, and the hearts to feel the suffering of our people, then hear me out, just this once:
