By: Robert K. Bolay, Jr. In Lofa
Ahead of commencing logging activities in the county, Texas International Group (TIG) has embarked on the rehabilitation of a 40-KM stretch of road in Voinjama District.

The Smythe Institute of Management and Technology (SIMT) will today observe its 11th anniversary, after years of providing quality education to the public.

Sierra Leone’s Special Court Registrar Binta Mansaray and Internal Affairs Minister Dauda S. Kamara have signed a Memorandum of Understanding which formally allows the Government of Sierra Leone to take physical possession of the Court’s former detention facility.

A group of women claiming to be widows of dead soldiers of the former Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) yesterday besieged the capital, Monrovia, obstructing normal flow of traffic and business activities.

A local advocacy group Action of Churches Against Torture (ACAT-Liberia) has called on the Liberian government to abolish the death penalty and the Liberia Council of Churches to declare its unconditional opposition to the capital punishment.

The Managing Director and President of the Third World Commercial and Construction Enterprise Ltd. on Carey Street, Mr. Hafiz M. Jawhary says the slow pace attitude within the judicial system in Liberia is causing more harm than good in that people accused are sometimes imprisoned even beyond the statutory period. He made these remarks yesterday when he addressed journalists on the judicial system in the country.

The Media Relations Office of the Liberia Marketing Association (LMA)
has sharply reacted to corruption allegation against the interim management. The office says it is not true that the interim management headed by Lusu Sloan is corrupt and that the lawmakers have rejected the bill seeking the transformation of the entity as claimed by Madam Lorpu Mulbah

A local non-governmental organization known as Peace Interaction Network (PIN) yesterday launched its campaign to fight corruption in the Liberian society.

The World Health Organization has praised Liberian progress on MDGs relating to public health, in a document published for its 63rd World Health Assembly in Geneva this week.

The Ministry of Public Works has rolled its sleeves, instituting several measures, to fast-track completion of construction work on the Belle Yella road, following reports that the newly constructed road was in a deplorable state.