Editorials

EDITORIAL Mr. President, Your People are Not Feeling the Promise ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, world leaders converged in New York, the United States of America to attend the United Nation’s 74th General Assembly, brainstorming on the…

EDITORIAL - Liberia’s Economic Dialogue Recommendations – Let’s Do it Right LIBERIA IS AT a critical crossroad again, after a decade-long period of post-conflict stabilization efforts exerted by our international development partners…

WHAT WAS BECOMING a spurring democratic space, replete with aggressive opposition, tolerant political will and diverse media is now running into trouble with sporadic electoral violence and popular anger amongst the population. This is…

ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE Council of Patriots (CoP) to return to the streets of Monrovia in protest against Government is the most bizarre and unpatriotic thing any Liberian can do. Even the most radicalized militants, who willfully maim and…

THE POLITICAL AND economic capital of Liberia, Monrovia, along with its environs, is gradually being swallowed up in dirt and chaos in human filth. Very soon, when nothing is done, the entire city would be a kind of…

IT IS NO EXCUSE that the government of Liberia is experiencing serious macroeconomic paralysis. The writing has been on the wall since the inception of the Weah-led government in January 2018. One does not have to be a super economist to…

BECAUSE THE NATIONAL discourse preceding the June 7 protest was rather riotous and warlike, many people at home and abroad had thought the day would be an apocalypse, chaotic and disruptive. This claimed the attention of Liberians and…

AT LONG LAST the self-styled Council of Patriots has sat face to face with the President George Manneh Weah and his Government over why the planned protest by the group should or should not be held. Many well-meaning citizens had craved for…

AS THE LIBERIAN parlance goes, “You can see your friend’s gari and pour sand in it.” As journalists ourselves, knowing what it means to rent or lease an office space let alone to furnish it properly and make ourselves look representative of…

LIBERIA’S HARD-EARNED peace, stability and democratic consolidation over last 17 years is now left with chance as the people brace themselves for street protests and demonstrations threatened by citizen groups, reportedly including major…