The Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Alan Doss, has declared open the newly-renovated Central Market in the coastal city of Buchanan, in eastern Grand Bassa County. The construction was financed by the United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), through its Quick Impact Projects.

As the biblical saying goes that “what a man plants, so shall he reap”; so was the fate of a notorious criminal, Cyrus Nimely, Jr. when was severely flogged by an angry mob why attempting to take away a stolen tiger generator and a stabilizer.

By: Isaac B. Menyongai The Circuit Court in Margibi County has granted a motion for continuance in a land case involving a Lebanese trader and a Liberian businessman in Kakata. The case has lingered in the Circuit Court for over one year.

The Rice Dealers Association of Liberia (RIDAL) says it takes serious exception to comment by some members of the House of Representatives including Elijah Seah, Bhofol Chambers and Dickson Yarsiah insinuating that the Rice Dealers booed and ridiculed the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Madam Olubanke King Akerele when she appeared before the plenary of the House last Tuesday, August 22, 2006 as reported by the New Democratic in its August 24, 2006 publication.

Recently, the Ministry of Public Works started a road rehabilitation project in Montserrado County to the pleasure of the entire citizenry.

The Liberia Media Center (LMC) will, on Saturday 26 August 2006, commemorate its first anniversary. The LMC was commissioned a year ago as a center of media excellence and professionalism with the aims of facilitating capacity building and rendering professional services to the media community and broader civil society.

The Ministry of Finance is alarmed by the “incorrect and misguided reports” in the Monday, August 21, edition of the Plain Truth Newspaper, insinuating administrative malpractices at the Ministry.

Legislators representing River Gee in both houses have been accused by their kinsmen of abandoning their county since they were placed in the position some time last year. Our reporter who visited Glaro, Tiempo, Sarbo and Palibo Districts in River Gee said, citizens in those areas regretted why they have to vote for people who do not care for them.

Liberia Petroleum Refining Corporation, (LPRC) Managing Director Harry Greaves has addressed wide range of developments at the entity including its 150 days deliverables; swell up in profit margin and the entity’s investment plans.

By D. K. Sengbeh The University of Liberia Student Union (ULSU) has called on President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to immediately remove the president of the University of Liberia (UL) Dr. Al-Hassan Conteh.