The Africa charity Mercy hospital ship has arrived in Monrovia and docked at the Freeport of Monrovia to provide free quality medical and humanitarian services the Liberian people.

The Acting Minister of Health and Social Welfare, Dr. Mohammed Sheriff says the World Bank has given US$8.5m for Liberia’s health sector.

The President of the Christian Association of the Blind (CAB), Beyan Kota has returned home following the close of the fourth gathering of the African Union of the Blind, with appeals for government to intensify more support for people with disability.

A one day Civil Society forum has ended in Monrovia with the group calling for the increase in the budget by 10% for education and civil servant salary increase by 50%.

The Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Independent Civil and Human Rights Center Incorporated, Mr. Melvin Page says the justice system within the Executive branch of government is deteriorating and has therefore called on the Police Director Col. Beatrice Munah Sieh to resign within seven days.

Devin Corporation is pleased to announce that one of its founding directors and shareholders, Mr. Milton A Weeks will return to Liberia to assume the role of Managing Director of the company as of August 2007.

The United Nations the world over will celebrate International Peacekeepers Day beginning tomorrow, Tuesday, 29 May 2007.

The National Security Forces in Grand Gedeh County have arrested seven persons including a Nigerian for crimes ranging from adoption to cocaine trade. The names of those arrested have been withheld for security reasons, the say.

The Government of Liberia has bestowed one of the nations’ highest honors, the Most Venerable Order of Knighthood of the Pioneers, with the grade of Chain Collar of State on outgoing Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Vice President Joseph Nyumah Boakai is reported to be on visit in the United States where he will engage Liberians in the state of Minnesota on several issues back home.