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Monrovia – One hundred and fifty years after their patriarch, John Prince Porte, led his young family and joined 240 other citizens of Barbados, braving the cold and turbulent waters of the Atlantic, the story of the Porte emigration to Liberia has been recorded and published.
The multi-year collaborative project was the brainchild of Ambassador Lorenzo Witherspoon, great-great grandson of John Prince Porte who served as Project Director and Executive Director, and his daughter, Loyce Beryl Witherspoon, as Lead Researcher and Producer.
It was produced thanks to the support of family members across the globe, as well as indispensable contributIons from family elders, Elfric K. Porte, Kenneth Y. Best and Ina D. King, in addition to Rodney D. Sieh and Lindiwe Khumalo. //
the Barbados Minister of Home Affairs, Information and Public Affairs, Hon. Wilfred Abrahams, announced the decision by the government to enact new and transformational legislation that will extend citizenship rights to all direct descendants of citizens of Barbados, irrespective of generation. This is a fundamental change from the current citizenship law which restricts citizenship rights to children and grandchildren. //
The plan hopes to boost its population, currently 290,000, by availing multi-generational diaspora descendants citizenship of the island. The change would mean that, providing they can prove it, descendants of the island who settled in Liberia beginning in April 1865 and after could be in line for citizenship of Barbados.
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Construction work has been completed on the raw water pipeline that will boost quality water supply to about 1M people in Monrovia, helping to address Liberias post-war perennial limited access to safe drinking water by close to 90% of the country
s population.
Owned by the Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation (LWSC), the US$18 million pipeline will draw water from the dam of the Mt. Coffee Hydropower Plant to the White Plains Water Treatment Plant in Rural Montserrado and then to Monrovia.
Remote learning programmes have been crucial to reach populations in underserved communities. One of the most effective channels is the use of radio and audio lessons. An innovative partnership with the Ministry of Education and Street Child in Liberia, has enabled Bridge Liberia to use audio lessons to reach thousands of children across 5 counties in the country.
Street Child has been delivering radios to communities and has so far delivered 1,500 radios to 1,500 ‘households’; meaning a group of 4 children. The radios are distributed alongside timetables showing when parents and students should tune in to hear a daily lesson designed for each age group. In addition school members are constantly engaging the community to remind them of when the lessons are taking place and follow up to see how they go.
The Government of Liberia launches this Friday, October 30, 2020, its first-ever post-war Airline for Liberia called “Air-Liberia”. President George M. Weah, according to a press release from the Ministry of Information, Culture, and Tourism, will do the honors for the launch ceremony scheduled to take place at the Robert International Airport. //
The new national airline of Liberia will be named Lone Star Air, and the motto will be “Wings of Liberia.” The plan is for the airline to initially fly from Monrovia to 11 destinations in West Africa, including Accra, Abidjan, Abuja, Banjul, Bissau, Conakry, Dakar, Freetown, Lagos, Ouagadougou, and Sao Tome.
As Bahn citizens petitioned the County Council for help The demand for electricity connection is said to be intensifying daily in Nimba County, with the latest instance being the citizens of the Ba…
On the morning of the 4th of September 2020, residents of northern Nimba County woke up to the presence of two elephants walking about their community. The sighting of the two forest elephants, which had crossed over from the Ziama Man and Biosphere Reserve in Guinea, was a rarity that captivated the imagination of onlookers. […]
MONROVIA – The Minister of Mines & Energy has laid out the progress the country has made in overcoming constraints in the energy sector. Minister Gesler E. Murray said Liberia’s current energy infrastructures are in deficit, and as a result, have not been able to meet the load demand of the consuming public ... //
the area of generation, we have the Mount Coffee Hydro Power Plant which has been rehabilitated from a pre-war capacity of 65MW to 88MW.” Minister Murray disclosed; noting: “We also have the HFO Thermal generation of 38MW.” //
“In 2003, our energy infrastructures were in complete ruins, relating to all aspects of power systems: generation, transmission and distribution. We began to rebuild the system using 10MW high speed diesel generators, which was quite expensive. Now, we have HFO generation which is less expensive, and hydro generation.
“In 2004, there was zero demand, now in 2020, we have a peak of demand of 40MW, and in 2021, the load is expected to peak at 50 plus MW, and by 2022, we expect to domestically consume all of the generation from Mount Coffee.” //
According to him, the current access rate of 10 percent for Monrovia and its environs, and only 5 percent nationwide is very low, emphasizing “this is very unacceptable, considering that energy is the lifeblood for any economy.”
“We have wholeheartedly embraced the WAPP concept and the agreed ECOWAS Master Plan of which the CLSG and Mount Coffee are a part of. We are working along with WAPP and the World Bank to complete the Bankable Feasibility Study for a 44 MW Mount Coffee extension, a solar plant with the capacity of 90 MW, and the construction of a second Hydropower Plant within the St. Paul River Basin. We are also working along with WAPP to conduct a feasibility study for a 225KVA line extension from San Pedro to Buchanan and we are also considering a joint Tiboto Hydropower project with neighboring Cote D’ Ivoire within the Cavala River Basin.”
“We consider electricity to be a poverty alleviation and wealth creation facility. So it is our desire that everyone should have it as much as possible. It is incumbent on this government to expand the access rate.”
A request from the Liberian government through the Liberia Electricity Corporation, requesting the banking institutions’ views on the potential for a single source leasing out of the excess capacity of the storage tank at Bushrod Island, on a short-term basis to Aminata Petroleum, has been rejected by the global body because it would hurt the capacity of the LEC to deliver electricity. //
LPRC is the state-owned enterprise with the exclusive mandate to refine, store, distribute, and supply petroleum products to the Liberian market.
On July 31, 1989, an Act of the Legislature granted the Liberia Petroleum Refining Company (“LPRC”) exclusive rights for the importation, sale and distribution of petroleum and petroleum products within Liberia.
Section 1 of the Act states that “The importation of all petroleum products for the Liberian domestic market, for internal use within the Republic of Liberia, and/or for transaction through the commerce of Liberia, shall be the sole and exclusive right of LPRC, and that NO entity, individual, concessionaires, public or private corporation nor any governmental entity, foreign or otherwise, shall import petroleum products into the territorial confines of the Republic of Liberia, except with the written consent of the Liberia Petroleum Refining Company duly approved by the President of Liberia”. //
During the presidency of Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, CONEX Petroleum Group, headed by Cherif M. Abdallah was granted the rights for the importation, storage, sale and distribution of petroleum and petroleum products within the Republic of Liberia. This has created a direct competition with LPRC. //
SRIMEX headed by Musa Bility is also in direct competition with LPRC. Like CONEX, they were also given the rights for the importation, storage, sale and distribution of petroleum and petroleum products within the Republic of Liberia.
Tebah is 65 years old and is the only person in her family who has been able to find some work, despite their best efforts. She is living in a tin shack with 16 of her children, grandchildren, her brother and his grandchildren. The house barely fits them all in and when it rains the roof leaks badly. At night time if it rains they have to pile all their mattresses up and all sit in one area of the house which remains the dryest. Tebah is absolutely desperate and so tired of living this way. The family have all lived there since 2012. In 2017 they started building a proper house for them. It's bigger and sturdier, and once completed it will stop the rain falling on their heads. It even has a bathroom! The house will also need doors and windows and proper flooring, but we want to start by getting the roof on so that they can move in and at least be better off than where they are now. Sorry about the sound quality - windy day! Double click the video to see it full screen.
Jerry is really trying his best. He is working full time, earning $4/day and is always looking for any extra work he can find. He is supporting his 3 children, 16yo Jerryln, 13yo Jeremiah and 2yo Cheri. He knows it is important for them to have an education, but school tuition is not cheap. His oldest daughter also needs eye medication for double cataracts. He is also financially supporting his elderly mother. He pays $20/month to rent a room and he needs to pay 12 months in advance. We have asked the landlord to give him some extra time so that we can try to raise the money. Can you help?
2015 Electricity law of Liberia. The Senate and House of Representatives of the Republic of Liberia approved in October 2015 a bill entitled 2015 Electricity Law of Liberia. The new electricity law sets the guiding principles for the power sector organization and gives some guidance on the roles of the different entities without too much detail. The Law offers sufficient flexibility for different institutional approaches regarding rural energy. The Master Plan study evaluated different alternatives, all with pros and cons, and proposes the ones with the potential to be more effective.
Power sector structure. Although now-a-days all power sector activities are provided by Liberia Electricity Corporation, the new Electricity Law structures the power sector in the following different activities which all – except system operation - can now be licensed to the private sector:
- Generation;
- Transmission;
- Transmission system operation;
- Distribution;
- Import and export of electricity;
- Trading of electricity.
Micro-utilities. Micro utilities or operations, such as “Community Current” – common business in Liberia where an entrepreneur operates and distributes power from a small diesel generator – can be exempted from licensing.
LEC. LEC is the State owned Utility which by law continues to be the transmission system operator and the national grid company and is entitled to engage in all other activities at its election. As transmission system operator LEC has to guarantee an instantaneous balance at any given time between the total generation and the total consumption of power taking account of the power exchanges with interconnected foreign systems. The role and scope of the “National Grid Company” is not clearly defined in the Law.
Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy. Ministry is responsible for the formulation and development of national energy policies and the administration of the Law.
Liberia Electricity Regulatory Commission. LERC is the newly created regulatory agency in charge of licensing activities, issuing regulations to implement the electricity law, approving tariff setting methodologies and to establish, monitor and enforce technical, performance and security regulations and standards.
Rural and Renewable Energy Agency. RREA is an autonomous agency owned by the Government of Liberia with the objective of acting for and on behalf of the Government to promote energy access in rural areas with an emphasis on locally available renewable resources.
Liberia continues to consolidate its democratic gains and rebuild its war-torn economy. Since the end of the Liberian Civil War in 2003, the country has held three national elections generally perceived as free and fair. It has also taken on the difficult task of rebuilding its economy, and strengthening its educational and health care delivery systems. The 2014-2015 Ebola Virus Disease outbreak drained the Government of vitally needed resources, slowed economic growth, and delayed key development projects. The worldwide response led by the United States helped bring the worst of the outbreak under control. Our work helps build confidence in public governance, brings reforms to key institutions and fosters measurable improvements in the lives of average Liberians.
The Government of Liberia is working closely with development partners to undertake ambitious measures to rebuild its electricity infrastructure. Liberia’s civil war, which ended in 2003, destroyed much of the country’s power sector. At approximately 12%, Liberia has one of the lowest electricity access rates in the world. In the capital city of Monrovia, less than 20% of the population has access to electricity. By 2030, the Government of Liberia aims to meet an anticipated peak demand of 300 MW and serve 1 million customers, connecting 70% of the population in Monrovia and providing access to 35% of the rest of Liberia.
Why do some critics fear Americans can’t safely engage in the election process amid COVID-19 when Liberia was able to do it successfully despite Ebola?
Brussels Airlines Routes; first flight arrives in Liberia June 29-Brussels – Monrovia – Abidjan – Brussels 2 weekly A330-300
Monrovia – Rep. Ivar Jones (Independent, District #2, Margibi) says he has written the Ministry of Public Works urging them to relax ongoing demolition of properties along the Robertsfield highway for a period of one month. Addressing legislative reporters Tuesday, the Margibi County lawmaker said, in the wake of the lockdown and State of Emergency, it would not be timely to demolish […]
MONROVIA – Cllr. Tiawan Gongloe, who accompanied FrontPageAfrica’s Managing Editor, Mr. Rodney Sieh, to the conference called by Associate Justice Joseph Nagbe over a traffic fracas on Thursday said the amendment to the vehicle and traffic law which gave the Associate Justice the right to use the third lane needs to be looked into as […]
Monrovia – Cllr. Joseph Nagbe, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia has summoned the editor of FrontPageAfrica, Mr. Rodney Sieh to appear before him on Thursday, May 21, 2020 relating to a traffic incident on Monday, May 18, 2020. In the summons served at the newspaper’s offices on Wednesday, May 20, 2020, the […]
In the last part of the 1970s, the late President William R. Tolbert, who had become increasingly aware of and concerned about the rapidly deteriorating conditions of the Liberian economy, commissioned a “Tax Force” under the chairmanship of the then Minister of Planning and Economic Affairs to make a comprehensive assessment of the many problems […] //
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On Some Of The Aspects Of The Current State Of The Liberian Economy: A Tentative Diagnostic And Assessment
By Dr. Brahima D. Kaba, Last updated May 4, 2020
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In the last part of the 1970s, the late President William R. Tolbert, who had become increasingly aware of and concerned about the rapidly deteriorating conditions of the Liberian economy, commissioned a “Tax Force” under the chairmanship of the then Minister of Planning and Economic Affairs to make a comprehensive assessment of the many problems confronting the nation’s economy, members of the task force included experts from various professional, technical and academic backgrounds and areas.
Dr. Brahima D. Kaba, brakaba@yahoo.com, Contributing Writer
The author of this paper represented one of the areas of the social sciences to help identify some of the sociological impacts of the deterioration of the terms of a change of our main export commodities such as iron ore, rubber, coffee, cocoa, etc., on the world market. These export products constituted then the backbone of our underdeveloped economy.
Dr. Togba Nah Tipoteh was one of the members of the expert panel on economic issues. It must be noted from the onset that the Liberian economy was then emerging from one of the fastest growths of the country’s history. This rapid economic growth, in turn, triggered a period of unprecedented social and political movements and changes in the society.
In effect, from the early 1960s to the middle part of the 1970s, our economy had experienced perhaps the second fastest growth rate in recent world history, second only to Japan. This phenomenal growth had even attracted the attention of a team of economists from a famous U.S University to conduct a study of – and write a book on – this peculiar moment of the Liberian economy. The book, titled “GROWTH WITHOUT DEVELOPMENT”, rapidly became a classic in the study of third world economies as they developed the tendencies of undergoing phenomenal growth which, due mainly to internal and external structural deficiencies, almost always failed to translate into real socio-economic and socio-political development for these countries and their peoples. Simply put, the huge revenues that Liberia derived from, among other things, her immense iron ore exports were not properly invested into her people and the establishment of the needed productive assets and factors of production such as agricultural, road, educational, and health infrastructure.