Editorials

THE RULING BY the Supreme Court of Liberia over the weekend in the case brought before it by the Speaker of the 55th Legislature over attempts by his colleagues to “illegally” whisked him off from job has added fuel to the fire than…

THERE ARE TIMES when even the journalist known for being impartial has got to rise up, speak out, join forces with appropriate allies, to put vexing national issues to their proper place. That is when the common interest – the national…

PROMINENT LIBERIAN LAWYER Tiawan Saye Gongloe has raised a series of questions he was quick to call “not rhetorical” – questions every well-meaning Liberian must ponder over because they provoke stark wakeup calls that plow deep into the…

UNARGUABLY, THE PRESS Union of Liberia (PUL) is one of few, or the perhaps the only survivor, of Liberia’s iconic progressive and revolutionary organizations that bore the pains of the struggle for multiparty system, for human freedoms,…

WHO DOES NOT want foreign investment to pour into Liberia? Certainly, nobody. Even the fiercest opposition foe would hardly reject. This is so because, like all other developing or poor countries, Liberia lacks the capacity to make use of…

Just in the last seven months, scores of Liberians met on the public job by the Unity Party Government have since returned home to dear families emptyhanded, resorting to playing ludo and checker games. From the Ministry of State for…

THE COALITION FOR Democratic Change (CDC) for three days nursed the nostalgia of its members and supporters, and perhaps a larger section of the public, when they demonstrated what they are historically known for: deviant show of love and…

IN YET ANOTHER colorful commencement ceremony, the Cuttington University on Saturday, June 15, graduated 761 students, awarding them various academic degrees and accolades. Accordingly, the graduands came from the university’s three…

IN AN APPARENT frustration with rice moguls who have been seemingly adamantly pushing for an increase in the price of the nation’s staple, rice, President Joseph Nyuma Boakai walked out of the meeting he convened himself. From hindsight,…

THE TERM “WITCH HUNT” is variously referred pointed to some meanings and contexts, but when used in relation to politics, it refers to a situation where people or groups are unfairly accused and persecuted for their beliefs or actions or…