The Analyst - For Those Who Strive For Better Liberia

MONROVIA - Public school students have stepped into a standoff between teachers and government. The Monrovia Consolidated School System Students’ Union has given authorities 24 hours to end a teachers’ go-slow. The deadline expires at…

MONROVIA - Mohamed Ali chose an unusual theme for a graduation: the danger of becoming important. The Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation (LWSC) Managing Director told 57 Grand Gedeh University graduates that titles fade and usefulness…

MONROVIA - Musa Hassan Bility has named a fault line most politicians prefer to whisper about. Three years before the 2029 elections, the CMC leader warns of a creeping danger. Tribe and religion, he says, are being smuggled into…

MONROVIA - Liberia’s climate fight is being explained to the public in plain terms, and that alone is progress. Dr. Emmanuel K. Urey Yarkpawolo heads the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He has set out the two pillars of the…

Liberia has paid for this lesson in graves. The civil conflict that consumed 14 years of our national life was not only a war of guns; it was a war of names, of tongues and of where a man prayed. At too many checkpoints, a Liberian was…

MONROVIA - Chief Justice Yamie Quiqui Gbeisay’s call to scrap jury trials has met organized and articulate resistance in the Liberian Senate. Senators Amara M. Konneh and Abe Darius Dillon accept his diagnosis of jury tampering. They…

MONROVIA - The Senate’s resistance to abolishing jury trials now has a reform blueprint. Senator Edwin Melvin Snowe, Jr. has joined Senators Konneh, Dillon and McGill in rejecting Chief Justice Gbeisay’s proposal. His argument rests…

MONROVIA - A dispute over who built a public health emergency center has become a proxy war over NPHIL’s leadership. Dr. Dougbeh Christopher Nyan says Africa CDC, with the African Development Bank, funded a newly constructed operations…

MONROVIA - A perfect WASSCE record in Nimba County says as much about school financing as about student talent. All 41 graduates of ArcelorMittal Liberia High School in Yekepa passed the regional examination. The county education officer…

MONROVIA - Liberia has crossed US$1 billion in domestic revenue, yet a Bushrod Island high school says it has gone weeks without teachers. That contrast is the real story here. Students of D. Tweh Memorial High School marched on October…