Editorials

WHAT HAPPENED? I turned my computer on, and this headline from the online version of the Daily Observer newspaper came screaming at me; ‘We Acted Wrongly’ – Sen. PYJ. Was I surprised? NO, I was not because this is how we as a people have…

THE VIOLENT PROTESTS across Nigeria by angry youths against police brutality has reached an alarming proportion which if not curtailed in time, has the propensity to spread across the West African sub region. Latest reports from major…

Our Support for Dee-Maxwell Kemayah’s Confirmation WE ARE COMPELLED to do the rare thing of tendering our support for an official of Government for senate confirmation—in this instance, Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Foreign…

THE VIOLENCE THAT characterized the senatorial primary of the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) over the last week in Nimba County is coming too early in the day to dash the hope of the people after the rave commendation that greeted…

THE VERBAL HOSTILITIES that ensued between the Minister of Gender and Social Protection, Hon. Piso Saydee-Tarr, and Nobel Laureate Leymah Gbowee are unfortunate distractions from a vexing social problem—rape. Rape, as well as all other…

IT IS NOW 17 years since our country had a relative rest from the furnace of 14 unbroken years of war—a war that killed over 250,000 people, displaced over a million citizens and sent hundreds of thousands into exile. The war disfigured…

IT IS NOW 17 years since our country had a relative rest from the furnace of 14 unbroken years of war—a war that killed over 250,000 people, displaced over a million citizens and sent hundreds of thousands into exile. The war disfigured…

THE COLLABORATION OF Political Parties which comprises of the four main opposition political parties, the former ruling Unity Party (UP), the Liberty Party (LP), the Alternative National Congress (ANC) and the All Liberia Party (ALP), over…

NO TO PROTEST WHEN THE CRAFTERS of the 1986 constitution inserted Article 15(a) in that sacred document which guarantees freedom of expression for every Liberian, they did so with the anticipation that Liberians will exercise it to voice…

LIBERIANS, ALL AND sundry, had gathered on that sweltering day at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sport Complex in January 2018 to witness the inauguration of Mr. George M. Weah, a man that many considered the savior that would take them to the…