By Marcus Zoleh

Former TRC Commissioner turned International Peace Builder, Cllr. Pearl Brown Bull has described as rubbish a front page story of the Chronicle Newspaper captioned, “Cllr. Pearl Brown Bull In Trouble With Marketers,” published in its January 28 edition.

Internationally acclaimed Liberian activist, Kimmie Weeks, says the recent beating of student leaders by the Liberia National Police is unacceptable and should be swiftly investigated. Mr. Weeks said that the Liberian government has made extraordinary steps to ensure law and order but that beatings of citizens by law enforcement officers placed a stain on Liberia's human rights record.

By: Jerome Toe

In a wake to provide security for residents of Killepo Kanweaken, a little mining community, the Paramount Chief of the Chiefdom Seyon Sackor is appealing to central government to increase the number of Police officers assigned in that part of the country, from 3 to at least 10 to help strengthen security operations in that part of the county.

By D. K. Sengbeh

The Liberian Government has announced that it will provide employment opportunities for 8,000 youth across the country between February and June this year, pleading for at least US$2 million to finance the initiative.

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has back-tracked her 2005 campaign promises of one term when she Monday announced that she will contest the 2011 presidential election as a “formidable candidate”.

With the gradual draw down of support from Liberia partners, the government has been stepping up to the plate in granting support to the Liberian National Police in improving the security sector including the Liberia National Police that needs more support from government.

The United States Ambassador to Liberia, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, will on Wednesday, January 27, sign grant agreements to provide assistance to several community groups from across Liberia. The grants will be provided under the “Ambassador's Self Help Fund” to implement various community development initiatives in the areas of health/sanitation, education (construction & renovation of school buildings) and income generation projects.

When the United Nations declaration on human rights gave rise to women's rights and gender equity in the world, little did countries around the world especially Africa knows that this declaration was the beginning of the dawn of a new day for Liberian women.
Howbeit, Liberian women have over the years been kept in the back seat especially as it relates to their participation in national politics and economic development.

A five-year old child in the Bardnerville Estate Community is currently experiencing the worse of trauma after she was allegedly tempered with sexually by one Lewis A.A. Leeco. The alleged rapist is said to be the Vice Principal for Instruction at the E. Jonathan Goodridge High School in Bamersville Estate.

The Liberia Education for All Technical Committee (LETCOM) and its partners in collaboration with the Africa Network Campaign on Education (ANCEFA), over the weekend launched a Civil Society Education Funds in Monrovia.