A delegation of the Make Group, a South Korean-based investment company specializing in Africa’s development, last week paid a courtesy call on President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Vice President Joseph N. Boakai with a pledge that they will invest US$695 million in the construction and development of a Millennium Village Complex.
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LBS Ghanaian Employee Resigns
Mr. Isaac Laryee-Nii Tetteh, the Ghanaian Sales and Marketing Director of the Liberia Broadcasting System, who has been the subject of intense controversy between the workers and management has resigned following a request from the National Legislature.
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Baccus Matthews’ Foundation Keeps Alive
A foundation named in memory of grassroots’ political conscious leader Gabriel Baccus Matthews will seek audience with heads of government agencies soon to inquire into their activities since President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf assumed power in 2006.
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ECOBANK Sues LIBERCELL for U$3m Debt
Ecobank Liberia Wednesday ran out of patient and issued a lawsuit against the Managing Director of Atlantic Wireless Liberia Limited Azzam Sbaity for over U$3 million debt owed the bank a week after the GSM Company was accused by the Tax Court of owing government over U$1million.
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Prayers For Tom
The St. Augustine Episcopal Church in Bardnesville Sunday had prayer services for the late Tom Kamara, veteran journalist and publisher of the New Democrat Newspaper who died at the St Luc University Hospital in Brussels on June 8, 2012 while en-route to Amsterdam, Holland for urgent medical treatment.
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ECOBANK Sues LIBERCELL for U$3m Debt
Ecobank Liberia Wednesday ran out of patient and issued a lawsuit against the Managing Director of A...
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Liberian
government Wednesday signed a $45 million grant agreement aimed at building the capacity of key government sectors in five years.
Under the agreement code-named “USAID Governance and Economic Management Support (USAID-GEMs)”, thousands of civil servants are expected to benefit from various capacity building initiatives in selected government ministries and agencies.
USAID Mission Director in Liberia, Ms. Patricia Rader told New Democrat following the signing that proper utilization of the program would help reinforce good governance and bring about growth and development.
“This program is designed to address the Liberia’s needs at the critical intersection of governance and economic progress. Those needs are pressing, and will determine Liberia’s future,” she noted.
She said USAID would manage the fund in close collaborating with government as implementing partner.
Finance Minister Amara Konneh, who signed on behalf of the government, thanked USAID and Washington for their enormous support toward capacity building and other initiatives in Liberia aimed at fast-tracking post-war recovery in the country.