…As Teachers Benefit From Training : By Augustine N. Myers – A major training program to build to capacity of hundreds of Liberian teachers, have taken place in Paynesville, Montserrado County. The 3-day Teachers’ Empowerment Program was organized by the Servants of God Outreach Ministries (SOGOM Harvest) located in the ELBC Community, Paynesville, in collaboration with sixteen Americans from the Harvest Bible Chapel in Michigan, the United States of America. Dr. Paul lectures a cross section of Liberian Teachers at the 3-day exercise The workshop which ran from Monday, June 27 thru Wednesday, June 29 brought together three hundred teachers from Montserrado, Grand... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Monday, July 4th 2011 |
By: Augustine N. Myers – Reports reaching the Monrovia Central Office of the WASH Reporters & Editors Network of Liberia (WASH R&E) speak of poor sanitary condition at the Harper Central Prison in South Eastern Maryland County of the Republic of Liberia, resulting to the death of at least four inmates. Maryland County WASH R&E Member, Arthur Douglas says the four pre-trial detainees reportedly died at the only prison due to an inauspicious sanitation situation, which continues to expose hundreds of the prisoners to serious health hazard. Reporter Douglas further reported that four other inmates out of the eighty-eight... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, June 28th 2011 |
Joshua Milton Blahyi is a murderous Liberian warlord turned evangelical minister in this stirring vérité documentary about the nature of justice and absolution. The man known as General Butt Naked murdered thousands during Liberia’s horrific 14-year civil war. Today this once-brutal warlord has renounced his sadistic past and reinvented himself as evangelist Joshua Milton Blahyi. In a riveting cinema vérité journey that unfolds over the course of five years, filmmakers Eric Strauss and Daniele Anastasion follow Blahyi’s unrelenting crusade to redeem his life. Facing those he once terrorized, preaching where he once murdered, Blahyi is on a quest to save his... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, June 23rd 2011 |
By Augustine N. Myers – Ahead of Liberia’s General and Presidential Elections expected to take place in October, 2011, citizens of Bong County have reiterated their unflinching support to the candidacy of Hon. J. Mike Kollie, Junior Senatorial Aspirant of the County. In a statement of Support by thousands of the citizens under the banner of Concern Citizens of Bong County, they described Hon. Kollie as a prominent Bong County citizen and said they do hereby identify themselves with him, as he has always done for them, in his strive to become the next Senator of the County. Speaking... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Tuesday, June 21st 2011 |
By Augustine N. Myers – The Government of the Republic of Liberia has announced that it has decided to break diplomatic relations with Libya and to withdraw the Liberian Ambassador and diplomatic staff from the Libyan capital, Tripoli. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf A release from the Government of Liberia through its Foreign Affairs Ministry, also says it has suspended the operations of the Libyan People’s Bureau in Monrovia and terminated diplomatic status for its diplomats who remain loyal to Colonel Muammar al-Qadhafi’s regime. According to the release, the Liberian Government took the decision after a careful review of the... Continue Reading
Publish Date: Thursday, June 16th 2011 |
