Utmost caution and meticulousness must be exercised as Liberia negotiates with American firm High Power Exploration Inc (HPX) over mining licenses and the construction of a new railway.
While going through the Roberts International Airport yesterday, there was no electricity.
All the flight systems and air conditioning units were down. The terminal was so hot that passengers and airport employees were fanning themselves with whatever was in their hands. This is unacceptable!
Hardly even a month after he took over, Liberia’s aged President, Joe Boakai, amid copious apprehensions that he would be an indecisive and weak leader, proved his critics right, at least for the first time, as he effortlessly gave in to what can be best described as a mutiny from some operatives of political actors within the country’s tiny military force.
Shortly after being sworn in as President of the Republic of Liberia, late President William Richard Tolbert Jr. authorized the audits of the Special Security Service (SSS) and the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) headed respectively by Directors James Bestman and C. Wellington Campbell under his predecessor President William V. S. Tubman.
Extreme secrecy has covered the Unity Party Alliance’s path to governance! With just 4 days, to begin the "recovery mission," "Rescue Missionaries" are unaware of their roles, leaving everyone, except the President-Elect, in uncertainty.
President Weah on the eve of his departure from office declared he was leaving US$40 in the bank. This amount represents what in accounting terms means that he was leaving behind assets worth US$40m.
The job of a nation's president is prestigious, powerful and glorious. But it can also be intricate, complex, tedious, stressful, unpredictable, cumbersome, full of high expectations and highly time demanding.
In Liberia, being decent and staying above the fray of corruption and mismanagement of public funds come with much more retribution, slander, and a campaign of denunciation than being morally bankrupt and excessively corrupt.
When the history of law enforcement in Liberia is written, you will come to realize that tyrants, human rights violators and dim-witted personalities have passed through the rank thus abusing the real intent of this noble professional.
Today, we have gathered here at this sacred and historic national headquarters of the CDC to respond to the State of the Nation address delivered a few hours ago by H.E Joseph Boakai in fulfilling a requirement enshrined in section 58 of our constitution.
