By Staff Writer The jury of Criminal Court ‘A’ on Tuesday came down with a not guilty verdict infavor of Q-Net Independent Representative Yaccuba Sawadogo for allege human trafficking. The jury arrived at the decision in a 11-1 vote, after hours of closed door deliberation. Immediately following the verdict, Judge Roosevelt Willie ordered Sawadogo released…
By: Michae N Baryor The Chair of the Senate Co TVmmittee on Foreign Affairs has called for an investigation into the Ministry of Labor issuance of work permits to non-Liberians. Montserrado County Senator Abraham Darius Dillon also asked his colleagues on Tuesday, to probe why the Labor Minister Cllr. Cooper Krauh, has been in violations…
By Staff Writer Liberia Chief Justice Sie-A-Nyene G. Yuoh is urging President Joseph N. Boakai and the Unity Party to prioritize access to justice for Liberia across the country, while expressing frustration over limited budgetary allotment to the judiciary. Speaking during the formal opening of the October Term of Court of the Supreme Court, Monday,…
By: Morris A. Fatorma fatormamorria@gmail.com Amin Modad, the Minister of Commerce, who was implicated to controversy surrounding the purchase of a luxury vehicle with a market value of over US$96,000 has officially resigned from the ruling Unity Party (UP) headed by President Joseph Boakai. In his resignation letter Modad, who is the former Chairman of…
By Staff Writer State’s lawyers are making the first formal push to have Judge Blamo Dixon of Criminal Court ‘C’ overseeing former Finance Minister Samuel Tweah’s US$8million property valuation bond case be recused and disqualified from the matter. Their decision may have been raised after Judge Dixon recently rejected an effort by state lawyers to…
By Staff Writer Cllr. Jallah Barbu, Dean of the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law at the University of Liberia is among four candidates currently vying to replace Cllr. Jonathan T. Massaquoi, as Executive Director of the Office of the War and Economic Crimes Court for Liberia Besides Cllr. Barbu, who is the former Chairman…
By: Morris A. Fatorma (fatormamorria@gmail.com) Addressing African leaders and top-level Indonesian officials at the Indonesia-Africa Forum recently, President Joseph Boakai says, Liberia values its relationship with Indonesia and remains committed to further deepening the cooperation in areas of mutual interest. Boakai emphasized that the relationship dating back to 1955, which led to the formal establishment…
