 |
|
|
In Liberia: Liberians Yarn For Food Sufficiency
Dozens Throng Launch Of “Back To The Soil” Campaign
The moment long awaited, longed for, anticipated and cherished was at hand on Saturday, June 27, 2009 when hundreds of Liberians thronged the historic Ashmud Street for the official launch of this year’s “Back to the Soil” Campaign sponsored by the government and the United Nations in collaboration with Cellcom Communications and CHICO while Ambassador Juli Endee’s Liberia Crusaders for Peace is chairing the committee. Students from private schools as well as the University of Liberia, ordinary Liberians from all walks of life, in their “Back to the Soil” t-shirts, paraded from the headquarters of Cellcom Communications thru Broad Street before converging on Ashmud Street between the new Central Bank of Liberia complex and the historic E.J. Roye Building where activities for the official launch were held.read more |
Mass Defections Reported From The Armed Forces Of Liberia
Reports of defections within the new Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) flare months after new recruits were announced. Unconfirmed figures filtering in from the Edward Beyan Kesselly (EBK) Barracks shows that there are currently 1,930 soldiers at EBK, including the 130 that just completed their entry training and sent their Friday. Until last Friday, the new AFL, which passed its initial estimated strength of 2000 by 100, was said to be down to 1,800, according to military sources. Of this number, 5 soldiers were reported to have defected from the 200 detailed at the Tubman Military Barracks in Gbarnga, Bong County. This suggests that as at last Friday the strength of the army was down by 300.read more
|
BACCUS LIVES AGAIN Liberia’s Progressives Canonize Him, Liken Him to Pres. E. J. Roye
Liberia’s path from autocracy to multiparty democracy was tortuous, violent, and uncertain. It spanned more than 150 years of the spilling of the blood of reformists and their supporters, the shedding of tears, and the flow of sweat. Few Liberians stood as trailblazers of that path. Foremost amongst them was Gabriel Baccus Matthews. This week, his progressive colleagues memorialized him; but observers say they actually immortalized or canonized him. read more
Implement TRC Proposals Former Sierra Leone TRC Chair Urges Liberian Govt.
FDA Strangulates Logging Companies
The Forestry Development Authority (FDA) is said to be creating conditions that may strangulate the activities of logging companies. Lapses within the draft laws of the FDA are said to be biting to the extent that logging companies are yet to get results of bids from the inter-ministerial committee. The situation is said to be propounded by the contracting by the FDA of a French national Nicolas Bayol whose presence is allegedly creating “bottleneck” and strangulating loggers. Observers have begun suggesting that what is happening at the FDA has the potential to delay development and employment in the forest sector of the country’s economy.
|
Sitting President Exempted From Prosecution; …Anti Corruption Commission Clarifies
Shannon Proposes Science & Technology Commission To Deal With Climate Change
Liberia Minister of Lands, Mines and Energy, Dr. Eugene Shannon has proposed for the establishment of a Science & Technology Commission that will address the issues of climate change and other environmental related issues that pose threat to the Liberian environment. Dr. Shannon said, while the nation continues to be at the ladder of development, the transfer of technology is crucial as the nation moves forward. Minister Shannon noted that a sound environmental technology that takes into consideration national circumstances will be effective and efficient in the reconstruction drive of Liberia. He pleaded that this commission should have the mandate to develop a national science and technology policy, promote science and technology and also serve as a clearing house for the transfer, development and diffusion of technology in the country. read more
Liberian Police Achieves A Milestone
MONROVIA, Liberia, June 25 (UPI) -- The transfer of responsibility of a police training facility to Liberian forces points to the full development of a democratic force, U.N. representatives said. Ellen Margrethe Loj, the U.N. special envoy to Liberia, praised the development during a handing-over ceremony for the National Police Training Academy in Monrovia.Loj lauded the development as a milestone for the cooperation between the United Nations and the Liberation National Police following close to a year of strategic efforts.
|
Liberia's Justice System Disjointed-Justice Minister Designate
Only 4% Of Liberian Children Have Birth Certificates
Recent report from the 2007 Demographic and Health Survey has revealed that only 4% of children in Liberia have birth certificates, while birth registration is recognized as a fundamental right by Liberia as a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Birth registration remains an essential step for all children to access basic social services such as health care. The disclosure was made yesterday at a one day workshop hosted by the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and the .. read more
|
| powered by Cavallagraphics.. 301-898-2064 Email cavallabs@live.com |  |
All Rights Reserved: About Liberia Today..Since 2006: Contact:  webmaster@aboutliberiatoday.com |
The former chair of Sierra Leone’s Truth & Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is urging the government to implement recommendations soon to come from the TRC. The Rev. Dr. Joseph Humper said failure to implement his own TRC’s recommendations has placed Sierra Leone on the crossroads of returning crisis. He said reconciling Sierra Leone after its bitter recent war has failed primarily because the recommendations of its TRC were ignored, Liberia’s TRC conference was told Tuesday.
The Chairman of the Liberia Anti- Corruption Commission(LACC), Cllr. Frances Johnson Morris says only a sitting President of the Republic cannot be arrested and prosecuted for corruption. Cllr. Morris said according to the Constitution of the Republic of Liberia a sitting President Such as President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is exempted from prosecution but stressed that all other officials of government can be arrested and prosecuted. Explaining about the function of the LACC at a first in series a Public Awareness Forum, Cllr. Morris said the commission was created in August 2008 in a bid to address the perennial problems of corruption in Liberia.
Liberia’s Justice Minister designate, Christina Tah has described the justice system of Liberia as disjointed but vowing to combat armed robbery, corruption and other violent crimes, the task her predecessor, Cllr. Philips Banks fumbled to perform during his tenure at that prosecution arm of the Liberian government.. 
