Editorials

By Hon. Musa Hassan Bility This week’s Letter from Saclepea comes from Providence, Rhode Island. For nearly two weeks, Liberia’s public conversation has been dominated by drugs and their devastating impact on our country. Yet I…

This newspaper believes the Government of Liberia owes the Liberian people one thing above every other in this historic cocaine investigation: unwavering focus. When nearly four thousand plates of suspected cocaine, valued at hundreds of…

AS LIBERIA COMMEMORATES 179 years of independence, the anniversary arrives at a moment of both national pride and sober reflection. The Republic has preserved constitutional democracy, maintained peace through successive democratic…

ONE HUNDRED AND seventy-nine years ago this month, a small assembly of freed men and women gathered in Monrovia and did what no other people on this continent had yet dared to do: they proclaimed to the world a free, sovereign, and…

SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY HAPPENED this week, and its significance should not be lost in the noise it will surely generate. The Secretary General of Liberia's largest opposition party wrote to the Embassy of the United States asking a…

POWER HAS AN unusual way of changing people. Yesterday's humble politician becomes today's impatient ruler. Yesterday's advocate of accountability becomes today's loudest critic of accountability. Yesterday's victim of official arrogance…

Public confidence in democratic governance depends not only on laws but also on the conduct of those entrusted to enforce them. The recent confrontation between Inspector General of Police Gregory Coleman and Senator Samuel Kogar has…

THE UNITED STATES Embassy near Monrovia celebrated America's 250th independence anniversary on Wednesday at the Executive Pavilion. Chargé d'Affaires Joseph Zadrozny used the occasion to reflect on the enduring partnership between the two…

The Congress for Democratic Change's 22nd anniversary celebration in Zwedru, Grand Gedeh County, last week was far more than a party occasion. It offered some of the clearest evidence yet that Liberia's opposition landscape is shifting as…

THE BOAKAI GOVERNMENT held a press conference celebrating Samuel Tweah's acquittal as a triumph for Liberian democracy. Then, ten days later, it moved to reverse that verdict. Let that hypocrisy settle before reading another word. ON…