Day: June 5, 2023

Over Lack Of Budget Performance Reports: Samuel Tweah Threatens To Withhold Salaries of Ministers; Concords with Simeon Freeman Declaration

IPNEWS: Finance Minister Samuel Tweah has threatened to hold the salaries of Government Ministers who renege on making financial reports during the accounting period. Minister Tweah disclosed that the Public Financial Management Law gives him the authority to hold back the salaries of Government officials who refused to make financial reports on allotments received from …

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Fiscal Decentralization Surest Way to Engendering and Realizing Full Implementation of Local Government Act of Liberia

The Program Manager for Political and Legal Reforms at the Governance Commission says fiscal decentralization is the surest way to engendering and realizing the full implementation of the Local Government Act of Liberia. Mr. Actebeouson Nyema said the national government has by far too long been operated through a centralized system for decades and has …

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‘No Source Will be Revealed’- PUL Backs FrontPageAfrica In 100M Court Summons

IPNEWS: The Press Union of Liberia says it stands with FrontPage Africa (FPA) regarding a summons FPA received from Criminal Court C on its reporting of the $100 million drug burst in Monrovia. In the face of the controversy surrounding the acquittal of suspected drug lords, involved in the US$100 Million drug case, FPA published …

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OP-ED: Collaboration between government, private sector, and communities key to beating plastic pollution in Liberia

By Louis Kuukpen, UNDP Liberia Resident Representative a.i. IPNEWS: On June 5th, 1972, the first United Nations Conference on the Environment was convened in Stockholm, Sweden where about 150 countries, including Liberia, gathered to develop guidelines for environmental action by governments and international organizations. 30 years later, Liberia took a huge step with the establishment of …

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Death Hits Liberian Media Community –

As Reporter Association Extends “Deepest Sympathy” for the Death of One of Its Members The Reporters Association of Liberia (RAL) is again in a state of grief and is deeply stunned at the untimely death of one of its members, Augustine T. Tweh, Deputy Managing Editor of the Trumpet Newspaper and Vice President of the …

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Richcares Foundation to Adopt Five Liberian Street Selling Kids

— As CEO Prince Aloysius Dennis Promises Future of Hope for Liberian Kids IPNEWS-Monrovia: A non-profit charity and humanitarian organization under the banner Richcares Foundation aimed at catering to underprivileged children and the less fortunate, particularly orphans, physically challenged, disadvantaged youth, through humanitarian assistance over the weekend identified five Liberian children for adaptation for better …

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Market Women Laud MPC Political Leader Freeman for Waiving L$4M Loan

By: Taisiah K. Merfee IPNEWS-Monrovia: Score of women in Montserrado County Electoral District #10, especially those doing business at the Peace Island Market in the Congo Town vicinity, over the weekend expressed delight in opposition leader of the Movement for Progressive Change (MPC), Simon Freeman for waving to them L$4 million previously given as a …

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Liberian Institutions Extol FHI360 — For Supporting Health System Strengthening

Dr. Yatta Sackie Wapoe, Montserrado County Health Officer IPNEWS-Monrovia: Two frontline Liberian institutions leading various aspects of health programs have extolled FHI360, an acclaimed international organization for its commitment to supporting the country’s health system strengthening. For more than four years now, the organization has operated in the country working with relevant Liberian institutions to …

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Chief Justice Yuoh Flexes Muscles on Lawyer for Allegedly Falsifying Deed for 1.5 Lots of Land

Chief Justice Sie-A-Nyene Yuoh –Orders Grievance and Ethics Committee to Probe IPNEWS-Monrovia: When Chief Justice Sie-A-Nyene Yuoh took the oath of office as Liberia’s new head of the Judicial Branch of Government replacing former Chief Justice, Francis S. Korkpor, she sounded a caveat that bad apples would have no place in the Judiciary and the …

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St. John River Bridge Nearing Collapse; As Price Skyrocket

The St. John Bridge is one of the country’s largest that connects Grand Bassa to other counties. IPNEWS: The famous St. John River bridge linking the Grand Bassa County port city of Buchannan is said to be on the verge of collapse. According to the authoritative Independent Probe correspondent in Buchannan, the St. River bridge …

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