Politics |

IN THE WAKE OF U.S. ANNOUNCED SANCTIONS ON THREE SENIOR OFFICIALS IN LIBERIA, GLOBAL INITIATIVE FOR JUSTICE CALLS FOR MORE SANCTIONS

August 18, 2022August 20, 2022 admin20 comment

MONROVIA – In the wake of the announced sanctions on three top Liberian government officials, The Global Initiative for Justice has congratulated the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, the US State Department, and the United States Department of Treasury for the Sanctions imposed thus far, but called on the US government to carry out more similar sanctions on other government’s characters still behind the curtains. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Monday, August 15, 2022, designated Liberian government officials…

Politics

The Democratic Alliance of Liberia or DAL, seems to be moving ahead without Boakai and Unity Party

June 6, 2022June 6, 2022 admin2DAL, Election, Liberia0 comment

By Lincoln G. Peters Monrovia—Last week, three opposition political parties in Liberia signed up to the new political alliance named the Democratic Alliance of Liberia ahead of the 2023 presidential and legislative elections. “How can you be in a group that populates competition than you say you should be the ones. Thousands of people can run marathons but in the end, only one person can win,” Whapoe reminded his fellow opposition leaders. Opposition Vision for Liberia Transformation Party (VOLT) political leader Dr. Jeremiah Z. Whapoe says the newly proposed National…

Politics

SOCIALISM OR BARBARISM – THE MASSES OF SRI LANKA ARE ON THE MARCH.

May 12, 2022May 12, 2022 admin2Headline News, IMF, Sri Lanka0 comment

The Editor, As humanity grapples with the specter of Nuclear War in the context of the US-NATO provoked proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, with the decimation of the lives of thousands of workers in Eastern Europe, it is compelling that we express our empathy for our brothers and sisters in our league who have nothing to gain but a life to lose in the heat of an unceasing barbaric and nauseating attacks orchestrated by imperial powers. Without a doubt, we oppose the war but not as the imperialist forces…

Politics

Liberian People’s Party goes to Congress on May 6th poised to elect Tiawan Saye Gongloe as Standard Bearer

May 5, 2022May 5, 2022 admin2Headline News, Liberian peoples Party0 comment

–Gongloe puts Agriculture, Health, Education and infrastructural development atop of his agenda as he seeks to lead the party in a new era of progressive politics By RC Geeplay The Liberian People’s Party (LPP) is expected to assemble in Monrovia on Friday, May 6, 2022, for the first time since HB Fahnbulleh led the party during the 2017 presidential and legislative polls, to elect its national and local chapter officers. The Congress is expected to oversee the election and restructuring of party leadership while revising the…

Where have you ever heard about this being done politically in the selection of political leader for an opposition group? Where? This is what happens when a group of people listen to some little guy who just completed a degree or certificate program and still finds it hard to distinguish between ideology and real life experiences.

Politics

Poor Alexander Benedict Cummings, Jr.—-It is something else: his aloofness.

April 27, 2022 admin2Cummings, Headline News, Liberia0 comment

by Tewroh-Wehtoe Sungbeh Alexander Benedict Cummings, Jr. is a Liberian citizen who is seen by his determined political foes as an outsider, a carpetbagger in a country where he was born in 1956 to Liberian parents. This is because like some of his opponents, Mr. Cummings is also aiming for the highest office in the land, the Liberian presidency. As a Liberian who personally have encountered similar pushback in some corners because of my enormous political activities in the United States other than in Liberia where “the action is” and…

Interestingly, the 2017 elections have come and gone and many are clinging on to the CDC victory as if it’s the triumph of their lives. Some of these very ones, like myself have always considered George Oppong Weah, grossly incompetent and unfit for the office of the President of the Republic of Liberia. But some of these people are somersaulting suddenly and are singing praises to Weah. You will not believe who they’re scapegoats, THE PROGRESSIVES!

Politics

“Liberian Gov’t Uses Stealing As Domestic Policy And Begging As Foreign Policy”

April 13, 2022April 13, 2022 admin2Alaric Tokpa, corruption, NDC0 comment

NDC National Chairman Alaric Tokpa Chides Weah Govt Contributed by Fatoumata Njei MONROVIA – The National Chairman of the National Democratic Coalition (NDC) has said that “the domestic policy of the Liberian government is based on Stealing and its foreign policy based on Begging.” Professor Alaric Tokpa made the statement during his weekly podcast series recently to draw attention to the high level of corruption and mismanagement of state resources by the Weah government as well as its strategy to weaken the opposition by using paid agents. The professor…

Politics

SUP Condemns The Koijee-CDC Violent Banditry At Dr. Sawyer’s Memorial On The University Capitol Hill Campus

April 5, 2022April 5, 2022 admin2Headline News, Liberia, SUP0 comment

For Immediate Release Comrades and friends, conscious university students in the quest for quality tertiary education, daring Liberian Patriots with an unyielding love for justice and peace, and fellow compatriots. In a resounding tone, the Vanguard Student Unification Party- SUP, condemns Monrovia City Mayor Jefferson T. Koijee and his bandwagon of savage thugs and bloodthirsty ‘Sabu Unit’ hooligans for the disruption of Dr. Amos Claudius Sawyer’s memorial ceremony which was held on the University of Liberia Capitol Hill today, March 31, 2022. SUP sees this violent provocation not only as…

Politics

The nexus between education and crime – a look beyond Dr. Daniel E. Cassell’s alleged offending.

March 30, 2022March 30, 2022 admin2Daniel Cassell, Liberia, Politics0 comment

By Samuel Sakama A HIGH intelligence quotient (IQ) or even an earned Ph.D. does not make one a ‘good person. Put bluntly, education does not necessarily make one a ‘good person. But research generally shows that having an education reduces one’s risk of committing a crime. THERE is a causal link between educational attainment and crime. For example, the majority of prisoners across the US (the world’s biggest jailer) are functional illiterates; followed by those who attempted/completed secondary education, post-secondary education, graduate school, and then postgraduate. The same can be…

Politics

LIBERIA: CLLR. GONGLOE FORESEES ECONOMIC DISASTER IF WEAH WINS SECOND TERM…

January 28, 2022 admin20 comment

BY SOCRATES S. SAYWON, MONROVIA – Presidential Aspirant Cllr. Tiawan Saye Gongloe has foreseen economic disaster and lawlessness if President Weah wins a second term in the ensuring 2023 general and presidential elections. Cllr. Gongloe voiced what many pundits including ordinary Liberians see as a prophecy on OK FM on Wednesday, January 26, 2022, when he said President Weah’s second term will mean a disaster. The veteran Liberia lawyer and immediate former president of the Liberia National Bar Association Counselor Gongloe who accepted a petition couple of months to contest…