Day: December 9, 2022

For Elections โ€˜2023: US GOVโ€™T TO โ€˜FLEX MUSCLESโ€™

IPNEWS: On Tuesday, December 6, 2022, United States Ambassador accredited to Liberia, Michael A. McCarthy addressed the Liberian media as well as international media correspondents to give an update on his recent tour of integrity institutions, including the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC), General Auditing Commission (GAC), Internal Audit Agency (IAA), Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA), the …

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Bassa CSO Group Rallies Support for ArcelorMittalโ€™s Expansion Project

On November 9, 2022, a local organization in Grand Bassa County -Citizens United to Serve Humanity (CUSH) initiated a series of public sensitization activities on the Phase II Expansion of ArcelorMittal in select affected communities within the operational areas of the worldโ€™s second-largest steel company, ArcelorMittal. CUSH held radio talk shows, community group discussions, and …

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Liberia: Jeety Receives LRAโ€™s โ€˜Real Property-Commercial Highest Taxpayerโ€™sโ€™ Award for 2020/2021

Dr. (LHD) Upjit Singh Sachdeva, CEO of Jeety Conglomerate, including Jeety Trading Corporation and Jeety Rubber Liberia Limited, has been recognized as the highest taxpayer for the fiscal year 2020/2021. In a letter of congratulations to Mr. Sachdeva, who is more commonly known in Liberia as โ€œMr. Jeetyโ€, the Liberian Revenue Authority (LRA) Commissioner for …

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LNP Launches โ€˜Operations 2022 December Festive Season Green Lightโ€™ ย 

ย – As Police Gives Update… By Jacqueline Lucia Dennis The Liberia National Police (LNP) has launched โ€˜Operations 2022 December Festive Season Green Lightโ€™ for this festival. Speaking in Monrovia, the head of communications at the Liberia National Police, Moses Carter on Wednesday November 7, 2022 said โ€˜Operations Green Light Festive Seasonโ€™ is an operation that …

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Diaspora Liberians Name Pres. Weah โ€˜Diaspora Person of the Year 2022โ€™

The All-Liberian Conference on Dual Citizenship (ALCOD), representing over 500,000 Liberians in the diaspora, has voted to name President George Manneh Weah as Diaspora Person of the Year 2022. According to an ALCOD release, this comes in acknowledgement of the Liberian leaderโ€™s sustained and laser-focused leadership in the advocacy for Dual Citizenship for Liberians, who …

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SUP Resists FGM Eradication

–Says They Wonโ€™t Sit and Allow Western Reactionaries Damage their Tradition By Taisiah K. Merfee The University of Liberia Campus-based political party, Vanguard Students Unification Party (SUP) has assured traditional, cultural and indigenous Liberians that they will not sit and watch the tradition of Liberia be eradicated by those they term as western reactionaries. According …

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Former Speaker Nuquay Gets Margibiโ€™s 2nd โ€˜Political Godfatherโ€™ Honor

By Emmanuel Degleh in Kakata, Margibi County The Ministry of Youth and Sports Margibi County Office has awarded former House Speaker James Emmanuel Nuquay as the โ€˜political godfatherโ€™ of Margibi which is unarguably the countyโ€™s greatest political honor just less than two months after the countyโ€™s elder council bestowed the same honor during Nuquayโ€™s 54th …

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PERSPECTIVE: Qatar Should be Commended, Not Condemned

New Thinking with Joe Bartuah Since December 2, 2010, when the tiny Middle Eastern country of Qatar won the bid from the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) to host the 2022 World Cup, all attempts have been made to denigrate that relatively progressive country, for doing the unthinkableโ€”winning a hosting bid against some of …

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Participants Challenged To Utilize Health Education & Research Conference

Participants at a USAID-funded three-day Liberia Health Education and Research Conference (LHERC) have been challenged to take advantage of the learning opportunity and reap maximum benefits through learning and interaction. On Wednesday, December 7, 2022, the Liberia Medical Students Association (LMSA), with support from the USAID-funded BRIDGE-U: Applying Research for a Healthy Liberia Project, convened …

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NPHIL Gets over US$300 worth of IPC Supplies from ADB

The National Public Health Institute of Liberia (NPHIL) has received over Three Hundred United States Dollarsโ€™ worth of Infection Prevention, and Control (IPC) supplies from the African Development Bank under the project-RESULT BASED MANAGEMENT- MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF PUBLIC HEALTH ACTIVITIES IN LIBERIA. A press release issued says, The National Public Health Institute of Liberia …

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