Liberian Observer - Liberia's First Independent Daily https://www.liberianobserver.com/ Liberia's First Independent Daily en Sun, 28 Apr 2024 22:36:47 +0000 Tue, 14 Mar 2023 06:10:50 +0000 Liberia: Senate’s Neglect Legislative Information Services https://www.liberianobserver.com/liberia-senates-neglect-legislative-information-services — Receives a paltry US$30K out of US$300K budget from 2018-2022 A highly comprehensive work plan submitted to members of the 54th Legislature by the Legislative Information Services (LIS) is revealing that the institution has been severely and embarrassingly underfunded since 2018 to 2022… jbcarter1956@gmail.com (J. Burgess Carter) 797858e7-fd12-4a70-850d-3c61c07ae14e Tue, 14 Mar 2023 06:10:50 +0000 Liberian Observer - Liberia's First Independent Daily Liberia: “Senate’s Evil Pension Bill Not of Govt, CDC” https://www.liberianobserver.com/liberia-senates-evil-pension-bill-not-govt-cdc  — Rep. Frank Saah Foko Montserrado County District #9 Representative, Frank Saah Foko, Jr., has expressed his thanks and appreciation to the House of Representatives for their historic non-concurrence posture, having unanimously voted to ‘reject and return’ the Senate’s bill, which he… lmsonpon@gmail.com (Leroy M. Sonpon 9b8c9f59-9ed1-4d82-a9fe-b1e4b243524f Mon, 12 Sep 2022 06:51:38 +0000 Liberian Observer - Liberia's First Independent Daily Liberia: Chief Justice-Designate Yuoh's Challenge https://www.liberianobserver.com/liberia-chief-justice-designate-yuohs-challenge --- Recovering the Judiciary from Corruption, Manipulation, and Human Right Abuse President George Weah may have nominated Associate Justice Sie-A-Nyene Yuoh to be the country's next Chief Justice but the judiciary branch she is about to inherit is beset with issues of corruption. … dopoejr@gmail.com (Robin Dopoe) 7376e9d2-7f9d-44da-8c45-39b747a1916e Thu, 25 Aug 2022 05:28:59 +0000 Liberian Observer - Liberia's First Independent Daily Liberia: Senate ‘Interfering with’ NEC’s Function https://www.liberianobserver.com/liberia-senate-interfering-necs-function — Says Rep. Fonati Koffa, promises to campaign against the passage of a Senate amendment to the New Election law that declares all election magistrates seats vacant after 90-days.  “It is not the business of the legislature to interfere with administrative matters [of the National… 9af10f61-c6f3-4ac7-a3b0-53f916ee110c Thu, 25 Aug 2022 04:42:59 +0000 Liberian Observer - Liberia's First Independent Daily Liberia: Senate Eyes Monrovia Expansion https://www.liberianobserver.com/liberia-senate-eyes-monrovia-expansion The Senate is expected to use its recall session to debate among other priority legislation including the legal expansion of the nation’s capital, Monrovia.  Such an expansion, as announced by Senate Pro-tempore Albert Chie, would see Monrovia going beyond its original map and… jbcarter1956@gmail.com (J. Burgess Carter) 57e77272-13a4-400f-8fb2-e50723a81eab Mon, 15 Aug 2022 05:30:47 +0000 Liberian Observer - Liberia's First Independent Daily