By Martin K. N. Kollie The future seems scared and cloudy under footballing President George M. Weah as a result of massive leadership bankruptcy and increasing hardship. However, besides the high schools built in Monrovia prior to April 12, 1980’s Coup, past and current administrations have not built the Tubman-High type-high schools in Monrovia. April 2001 Editor's Note: The situation in Liberia is getting interesting by the minute.  During his campaign in Liberia, candidate Weah (in Nimba County) badmouthed educated people as those who failed the hapless people of the nation and that the uneducated people had the magic wand to rescue the nation.  Interestingly, President Weah has obtained two honorary doctoral degrees within less than a year, while the economy of the country is on a downward spiral and  while our educational system is in total tatter, broad day stealing of the resources of the country is the staple of the government, making it even worse than the time the so-called “educated elite” was running the country.  What is obvious here is that the Liberian people are now a football that is being played by the soccer legend turned Dr., Dr. Weah. Martin K. N. Kollie Liberia: The Socioeconomic Crisis Deepens There is massive unemployment with no prospect of increasing the productivity of labor through productive economic activities in key sectors of the economy. While female genital mutilation takes different forms around the world, in Liberia it is most commonly the act of partial or complete removal of the clitoris and/or the prepuce. A Press Release Issued by the Universal Human Rights International (UHRI) President Trump should not be swayed by Netanyahu’s duplicitous argument, however convincing it might sound, that he is committed to a two-state solution when in fact he has opposed and will continue to reject in principle the creation of an independent Palestinian state under any circumstances. By J. Yanqui Zaza The competition is expected to produce a queen, who will be the ultimate winner of the pageant, followed by the "first and second princesses". Richard Pankhurst, "The Falashas, or Judaic Ethiopians, in Their Christian Ethiopian Setting". "One Nation, Indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for All": An Empty Pledge in Practical Terms By J. Yanqui Zaza The Government of Sierra Leone, through its subsidiary (i.e., the Central Bank of Sierra Leone-BSL), sells bonds to commercial banks, and also sells bonds to its 100% owned subsidiary (BSL). In order to deal with this topic with some degree of clarity,  I must first begin by raising the issue of whether or not the Liberian media has a role to play in the sustenance of the Liberian democracy. He further taught us that the existence of a social reality which will lead to man’s progressive consciousness (a consciousness that enables men to develop art, science, culture, religion or philosophy) is dependent on how the socioeconomic system of a society develops its productive forces and organizes its means of production. We don’t oppose the people of the South-east- but Weah, Tweah, Chie and Chambers It is obvious that the sudden increase came with the turnover of national leadership. We must seize the moment. By Alfred P. B. Kiadii Sonnie James recovers from going blind; receives L$236,000.00 (US$2,000.00) – The Outcome of Persistency Through Genuine Advocacy 3. As a nation confronted with immense political, economic, security, and development challenges, Liberia has persevered, NEC Commissioner Jonathan Weedor Decries Chairman Korkorya’s Scam That Will Lead To Rigged 2017 Elections In Liberia The Irony and Tragedy of Liberia’s Political Leadership: Promoting Pillagers and Dispossessing the People January 2002 According to a 2009 study, 90% of Ethiopian-Israelis – 93% of men and 85% of women, are married to other Ethiopian-Israelis. For peacefully appealing to the government to pay their teachers, these teenage students were tear-gassed, beaten and the bodies of some students gouged by the ruthless Liberian police. Indeed, our Country had been, and is, a quagmire, as we observed recently, elsewhere that a “quagmire is an awkward, hazardous and complex situation; it is a muddled up, mixed-up, messed-up predicament; a difficulty, quandary, entanglement, imbroglio and a fiasco in many African, socio-economic and political affairs”. Is America Still A Beacon Of Light To Other Nations? If a tree is bad, its fruit will be bad. Both internal and external players have been nurturing their vested interests by prolonging the deadly conflict, hoping to improve their position to serve their long-term objectives. As you commence the sixth and final session of this august body, we will be submitting a number of bills for your consideration. Cummings Raises Alarm Over Second Postponement Of By-Elections; Cites Possible Cheating And Rigging Of The Elections; Open Letter To Boakai, Brumskine, Cummings and Urey, Female Genital Mutilation and the Curse of Tradition. There is no reason there’s not peace between Israel and the Palestinians - none whatsoever.” Trump’s over-simplification of the conflict suggests he has no clue about what it would take to make peace and why the mere resumption of peace talks is dead on arrival. By Bai M. Gbala, Sr. By Martin K. N. Kollie As a result, a new term arose which was used to refer to this group: "Falash Mura". David A.B. Hagar Salamon, "Reflections of Ethiopian Cultural Patterns on the Beta Israel Absorption in Israel: The "Barya" case" in Steven Kaplan, Tudor Parfitt & Emnuela Trevisan Semi (Editors). Any New Year can only be happy for you when your mistakes are recognized and corrected so that they are not repeated in the New Year. According to the National Election Commission (NEC), the people spoke in a loud democratic tune on December 26, 2017. Dec 2004 When a political party becomes exclusively controlled by the President and his partisan gatekeepers and friends, it spells disaster. One of the much-heralded acts of justice injected into the renegotiated concession agreements of Mittal Steel Liberia and Firestone Liberia was the replacement of discretionary pricing by the concessionaires with “prevailing global/international market prices” for our natural resources.  This provision is supposed to correct the ills of transfer pricing and give Liberia a fair price for the natural resources being exported from Liberia.  Following that revision, all other concessions negotiated stipulate “prevailing global/international market prices” for our resources.  This is considered best practice and deemed fair for both the concessionaires and the host country.Â. One is leaving the presidency with the greatest popularity in the international community as well as a great number of loyalists and power brokers at home. Liberia has two (2) recognized stadia/stadiums. Echoes From The Hill-Top: VP Boakai On “Splitting Point” By Michael Cecil, Esq. At a recent gathering of Liberian dignitaries – the big names, including the US Ambassador accredited to Liberia, USAID Executives, line Ministers and others – at a local hotel, with the Honorable, Dr. Fredrick Norkeh, Minister of Posts & Telecommunications, R. L.., the host in collaboration with the United States Agency for International Development, USAID, the funding partner. [6][7][8], In 1991, the Israeli authorities announced that the emigration of the Beta Israel to Israel was about to conclude, because almost all of the community had been evacuated. By Dr. Alon Ben-Meir By Dr. Alon Ben Meir The genocide of the Yazidis in northern Iraq’s Sinjar District will be remembered as one of the darkest chapters in the rise and “fall” of ISIS. At The Perspective, the premier site and authoritative resource for news and analysis on Liberia, we remember Rev. Yet remaining hopeful with burning eyes of tears. Gaza - A Disaster In The Making This is a party that strives to cling to power - which is not itself unusual - but seeks it at all costs with no scruples and no moral compass. By J. Yanqui Zaza Bravo! It follows that an evolutionary period always precedes revolutionary upheavals. I disagree with this prognosis. The sad irony is that for you, the facts on the ground are freely expungable in your morally distorted universe. Since the 2017 elections, she has been accused of helping Mr. Weah against her VP Joe Boakai. Century Of Moral Decadence, Public Dishonesty & Under-Development Continue In Liberia Referenced resolution of February 1, 2017 under the banner of the Patriotic Entrepreneurs of Liberia (PATEL), in which some burning issues affecting Liberian businesses and the well-being of the Liberian people in general were highlighted and presented to the National legislature and the Executive branch for their intervention to curtail the situation, I hereby again provide some detailed explanations with recommendations that will pacify the situation to wit: Moroccan Cultural Preservation and the Jewish Experience March 2002 The motivations of the civil war itself were unproductive and created unbearable conditions that still impact negatively on the well-being of Liberians. Official corruption continues to be a constant source of local headlines and outrage. In fact, the diseases are preventable and/or curable, and the leading killing diseases are; (1) coronary heart disease, (2) tuberculosis, (3) influenza and Pneumonia, (4) diarrheal, and (5) stroke. We have a dual currency system: the US$ and the LD$.  What is most stupefying is that the Government of Liberia will not accept the currency issued by the Liberian Central Bank (authorized by the Liberian Legislature) for the transaction of business but will only accept US$.  If the government has no faith in its legal tender, what are the masses to hope for?Â. The "All Liberians Are Related" Mentality: Will President Weah Go After His Relatives? And as such, he has decided to liquidate the so-called enemies of the state. By Martin K. N. Kollie March 2003 Vision is lacking – no concrete agenda – no realistic strategy – and unquenched greed to amass illicit wealth are new normal under this ruling CDC clique. Since the 1980s, it has also become the official name used in the scholarly and scientific literature to refer to the community. With a crowded field of over twenty Presidential candidates and just about twice as many legislative candidates, no can rule out the possibility of legal challenges arising before the Supreme Court whose credibility was severely eroded by its recent decisions on the Code of Conduct. But just why President Sirleaf has allowed or encouraged such blatant violation of the country’s electoral laws to persist, although being fully aware that Korkoya, as a U.S. national is legally incompetent over the elections, is the question she must answer to posterity. Cllr. Liberia: The “Dictatorship of the Multinational Corporations” Moroccan Agriculture and Rural Development By: James Thomas-Queh For the past several decades, lexicographers and other linguistic organizations have observed a tradition of naming a word, or a group of words, as word(s) of the year. This is a momentous event in American history, especially African-American history ever since 1619. It can be recalled that during the administration of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Weah’s predecessor, critics as well as whistleblowers were brutally murdered under mysterious circumstances.  In recent time, there has been a spate of killings in Liberia in the same fashion. By J. Yanqui Zaza On March 29, 2006, at about 5:00 Pm I told the world press at the Roberts International Airport, speaking on behalf of the Liberian Government, as Solicitor General, that the arrest of Charles Taylor was the beginning of the end of impunity in Liberia. It was necessary to invade Afghanistan to destroy al-Qaeda following 9/11, but once it was defeated we should have departed, leaving behind some residual forces to clean up the mess. By J. Yanqui Zaza I retrospect the divisiveness wrought by the Americo-Liberian supremacy doctrine that birthed confusion, malice, wars, and the resultant gross mistrust and lack of transparency that have become ours. Liberia is in the Guinness Book of World Records for conducting the most fraudulent and rigged elections in modern recorded human history, and the 2017 elections could be a repeat of that history.In the 1927 presidential elections pitting Charles DB King against one Mr. JR Faulkner, there were 15,000 registered voters of Americo-Liberian stock only as natives who constituted 95 percent of the population were denied the right to vote until around 1960, even when natives were, again denied their right to form opposition political parties. To uphold the Constitution and the Rule of Law Kiadii When Greed and Desperation Overshadows Rationality; A Response to Opposition Political Parties Declaration of Support for Jerome Korkoya Now efforts to refine the process must commence. Chairman Korkoya’s statement was in response to the alarming problems associated with the current provisional Registration Roll as discovered during the ongoing exhibition exercise. How James Biney Exploited Pleebo-Sodoken District When He Served As NPP Representative Moreover, this article goes further to conceptualize corruption as a cancer that eats up sound and constructive policies, agenda and transformative goals for the nation. In Hebrew the term "Falash Mura" (or "Falashmura") is probably a result of confusion over the use of the term "Faras Muqra" and its derivatives and on the basis of false cognate it was given the Hebrew meaning Falashim Mumarim ("converted Falashas"). Before addressing that thought, it’s only fair to peruse the following proposal. [6][7][8], The Beta Israel once spoke Qwara and Kayla, both of which are Agaw languages. [108] Unlike Russian immigrants, many of whom arrived educated and skilled, Ethiopian immigrants[109] came from an impoverished agrarian country, and were ill-prepared to work in an industrialized country. A few weeks ago, the administration of the University of Liberia decided to suspend or ban student political activities. Write A Business Plan Before…, Mother Of The Nation: A Tribute To The Mother Winnie Madikizela Mandela, Liberia’s Land Reforms and its Anticipating Pearl for Stability & Development…as I see it. His passing has left an indelible void in the family and in Liberian communities.  Please click the link above for funeral arrangements. [106] Civil war and famine in Ethiopia prompted the Israeli government to mount these dramatic rescue operations. At last, a campaign team for VP Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s bid for the presidency in the ensuing 2017 General Elections has been constituted. When a “saint” becomes stained with sin – The Case of Senator Abraham Darius Dillon and an introspective look at post-Brumskine Liberty Party Failure to Honor an Order of the Supreme Court Undermines the Rule of Law and Threatens the peace, security and development of Liberia    A Rejoinder To Sam Jackson’s 11/06/2018 Article. Why? Reaction by Joseph Johnson ...the Government of Liberia (GoL) should divest itself and privatize LIBTELCO, effective immediately, to desist from the financing of the entity that is potentially lucrative and self-reliant as private-sector administered. The Kroll Report: Is it an Audit Report or a Classified Report? Politics is local, interest-based, race-based and ethnicity-based Instead of minimizing the ominous danger of the virus and ignoring the warning of top scientists about the prospective disastrous consequences it could unleash, he could have mobilized from the onset of this pandemic every national resource to tackle the virus head-on. This is a laundry list for eligible voters in Liberia. The observance of the Holiday Season did not stop many Liberians from using the social media to express their outcry against the obvious theft and looting sprees that have overwhelmed the Weah-led government. Cllr.  Sayma Syrenius Cephus Reacts To LNBA Press Release I Sense A Plethora Of Lawsuits: 2017 Elections Results Could Be Challenged Many Beta Israel believe that they are descended from the tribe of Dan. the antics of the Brooklyn hoodlum - Charles Taylor. Most of the population consists of members of the Maninka ethnic group. President Charles DB King sold natives as slave. By Daniel Chukwuemeka And what if he prompts his supporters to take up arms, converge into the streets, and violently confront the likely massive number of protesters who would demand Trump’s removal from the White House, which could lead to some kind of a civil war? June 2003 Play-play Elections Commission, Play-play Elections, Play-play new government: Obscurity and Cacophony of the 2017 Transition, Analyzing the   Sabu Unit and the Distorted Narrative of Change of the CDC. They do not experience the emotional pains that patriots feel whenever the collective aspiration, dignity, and culture of the people are being abused and exploited by serial rascals. Nelson Mandela - A Legacy of Integrity BIBI: (to himself) Will this be my last visit to the White House? Decapitating Jim Crow Monument: A Movement to Forming a More Perfect Union President Weah Lied Under Oath A more corrupt, poor and hungry nation with abundant resources and vast inequalities. Was it yesterday or today? After their dismal, historic 133-year failure to deliver the Republic of Liberia from the problem political under-development – poverty, illiteracy, hunger, healthcare deficiency, rampant corruption and national transport/communication (the Premier Multiplier Effect) for national economic development;  and after their historic civil war nightmare of Warlords, rebel war graduates of Looters, human rights Violators/Killers with impunity during their 12-year failure to deal, efficiently/effectively, with the problems of the nation’s critical needs, including the-now roaring corruption, the dreaded True Whig Party Rulers now called “opposition politicians” turned to  “SLUM DEMOCRACY”. Their conduct is appalling. In this brief analysis, I have exposed four (4) vicious strategies of CDC and advanced five (5) suggestions to CPP ahead of 2020 and 2023 polls in Liberia. Liberia vs. Sierra Leone: Microscoping CBL Governor designate J. Aloysius Tarlue and CBS Governor Kelfala Kallon - An Unmatched Comparison, Bill would grant some Liberians permanent status and path to citizenship, We Refuse to Accept Second Class Citizenship, Review Of Dr. Ben-Meir's Development Model As Viewed In Tandem With Morocco's Framework Of Reform, Liberia to Host Miss Africa 2020 Beauty Pageant, Ending US-Iran Impasse Rests Only On Face-to-Face Negotiations, Disclose Liberia Revenue And Bank Balances Of State-Owned Entities. In his first trip to Kosovo after the end of the 1999 war between Kosovo and Serbia, US President Bill Clinton told the Kosovo Albanian crowd greeting him, “We won the war. Are No Match For Armed And Resolute Wickedness” –, Emotion Vs Reasoning – The Case Of A Misguided Liberian Democracy, Liberia’s Democracy in Plummet:  The Rogues VS the RiffraffÂ, The National Elections Commission of Liberia Releases the First Batch of Its "Progressive Results", As Liberians Vote Today - "Virtuous motives, trammeled by inertia and timidity... are no match for armed and resolute wickedness”, Endorsement of the Presidential Candidacy of Joseph N. Boakai By The Perspective, Liberia: Priorities of  an Elected Government - What Must Happen After October 10th, Liberia Holds a Free Election. By Daniel T. Bestman Bishop Dickson and his wife started a school for the deaf in Brewerville which still exists. In this first piece, I have decided to remind contributors to Liberia’s development debate from social media to blogs about the role of Government in Market-based Economies such as the Liberia Economy. The action was taken weeks after the menace was brought into Liberia by the head of the Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia – an agency that should have been at the forefront in protecting Liberians from the pandemic. 80% of the world's income and wealth is accounted for by 1% of the world's population The shock of COVID-19 to the Liberian economy will be enormously dire. A drive on the bush road from Buchanan in Bassa County to Pleebo in Maryland is akin to a trip into the abyss of time past. We are at a place in our national’s life where it is very important for us to begin to speak the language of unity, this language of unity and togetherness is a language that we have used from the founding of this nation. Louis Marcus, "Notice sur l'époque de l'établissement des Juifs dans l'Abyssinie". He never denounced the repressive policies of the Congua-only one party state hegemony that turned natives/tribal or country people into slaves. By: Lekpele M. Nyamalon The fight for the destruction of the symbols that do not fully represent the values, culture, and aspirations of all people in a truly just society is achieving victory across the world.   In this evolutionary struggle for the rights and dignity of black people and the protest against the opposition of equality and social justice, I never dreamed that the state of Mississippi, the bedrock and beacon of American racism, would see its Republican-controlled Legislature vote for the taking down of the Confederate Flag – the symbol of slavery, racism, and the denigration and subjugation of Blacks.  The flag’s supporters have resisted efforts to change it for decades. Let us use an analogy: “Recordkeeping (leading to financial) to a business is the equivalent of the dashboard displaying flight instruments to an airplane pilot.” Or as stated by an expert, it is extremely important to have good accounting, because “…you cannot run a business if you don’t know whether you are being profitable or not. Rex Tillerson Shares Exxon’s Tax Transparency Problems By Steven Karly, Jr. In a bid to be re-elected in 2011, Africa’s first female President signed an official contract with all Liberians through a solemn pledge consisting of twenty promises. Sennacherib's campaign failed and Shebna's army was lost "at the mountains of darkness", suggestively identified with the Semien Mountains. When I chaired the Africa Subcommittee, we worked diligently, and across party lines, to send a clear, unified message - Charles Taylor must be brought to justice. Thousands of demonstrators descended on Liberia’s capital on Friday to protest former soccer star-turned-President George Weah and the sinking economy while critics accused the government of blocking social media. that governments/sovereigns establish as money. Editorial What if he calls on the military to occupy all major American cities while he still is the Commander-in-Chief between Election Day and the inauguration of the new president? An Opened Letter to Cllr. Our Reaction To: “Natives Are Not Perfect…” Open Letter To President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf The best and the brightest who can in fact chart a new path have become disillusioned with politics, making the prospect of renewal increasingly difficult.