The Initiative for Democratic Alternatives awarded L$88,050 (US$554) to 30 girls and 6 boys at two Buchanan schools, the Lower Hardlanville Public School and the Fred Mart Memorial School.  Since 2016, the organization has sponsored programs for children across Liberia. READ MORE  

The Lofa County Community College has warned or suspended several staff, including two deans.  Various offenses include falsifying student grades and issuing a press release deemed “derogatory and injurious” to the college. READ MORE

The Forestry Development Authority has targeted Nitrian in the Kpanyan District of Sinoeas to be one of 30 communities to benefit from beekeeping as an alternative forestry livelihood.  The 24-month project will empower forest communities to fend off commercial logging, palm oil plantation clearing, poaching and illegal harvesting of chewing sticks, rattan [...]

The Grand Bassa branch of the Dacan Institute of Professional Driving has graduated its first class of more than 30 students.  A third of the newly certificated professional drivers are women.  The class was recruited from the Liberia Immigration Service, the Liberia National Police and other institutions across the county. READ [...]

Englishman Daniel Kaye has been jailed by a London court for 32 months after admitting to a Lonestar phone company attack in 2016 that crashed Liberia's internet.  Kaye was hired in 2015 to attack Lonestar by an individual working for Cellcom.  A security flaw in cheap surveillance cameras by Dahua enabled Kaye's [...]

Proposals are requested before February 1 for symposium papers, panels and roundtables related to the theme: "Beyond Transition: Sustainable Development Challenges for Liberia’s New Administration". The symposium will be held held April 11-13, 2019, at the Concordia University, Chicago, Illinois. READ MORE

By July, 2019, communities near the EJ&J logging area will have a new eight bed clinic that will include a delivery room, an outpatient consultation room, a pharmacy and a storeroom. READ MORE

The charity Smile With the Future gave gifts of clothes, toys, footwear, rice and labor saving hand water pumps to over 1,000 children and their families in four towns. READ MORE  

Students at the Marloi Public School in Johnny Tutu Town will return from Christmas Break to enjoy 50 new rattan chairs donated by the Professional Volunteers charity.  The new chairs only begin to fill a need for a proper structure or basic classroom furniture in at least 18  of Grand Bassa's [...]

United States-based young Liberian professionals known as ‘The Gentlemen’s Club" presented on Tuesday, December 11, 2018, a consignment of medical textbooks to the A.M. Dogliotti College of Medicine of the University of Liberia.  The estimated US$25,000 donation culminates a two-year project initiated by the Club in the wake of the Ebola crisis [...]

While overseas staff and volunteers remain on the job, approximately half of the agency’s workforce is furloughed. This includes activities and staff “not reasonably necessary for the safety of human life or the protection of property.” The US Peace Corps has identified the following departments on furlough: the Office of [...]

The dormitory is part of a US$2.45 Million project funded by the World Bank to construct two 48-bedroom dormitories, two fully furnished classrooms and a skills laboratory.  According to UL administration, completing the project will relocate the AM Dogliotti College of Medicine from east of Bernard's Beach to Fendall.