Lyndon J. Ponnie, Sr.

Commerce Minister Nominee Promises Lower Business Costs, Consumer Protection, More Jobs and Greater Opportunities for Liberian Entrepreneurs

Liberia’s alleged role in the regional operations of Europe’s most-wanted drug trafficker, Jos Leijdekkers, as questions persist over the nearly four-tonne coca…

The former president’s sovereignty message raises questions about timing, her own record, and Liberia’s long relationship with Washington

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – Liberia has renewed efforts to attract international investment into its offshore petroleum sector, offering opportunities to explore 29 off…

MONROVIA, Liberia — The Liberian government has announced a major fiscal milestone: more than US$1 billion in domestic revenue collected during the first nine m…

MONROVIA — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is urging the Liberian Government to take a harder look at the generous fiscal concessions granted to mining co…

MONROVIA — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is urging the Liberian Government to take a harder look at the generous fiscal concessions granted to mining co…

MONROVIA, LIBERIA — For nearly two decades, former Liberian President Charles Ghankay Taylor has remained outside Liberia, serving a 50-year sentence imposed by…

The 50-Year Sentence, the Two-Thirds Rule and the Law That Could Eventually Open the Prison Door

The Liberian Progressive Movement began as an intellectual and political challenge to a political order that had dominated Liberia for generations.

MONROVIA, LIBERIA — Liberia’s Freeport of Monrovia is operating under increasing pressure as rising cargo volumes, prolonged container dwell times and delays in…

MONROVIA — Long before Liberia’s current debate over Israel, Palestine and its position at the United Nations, Monrovia and Jerusalem had forged a relationship…

For more than a century, Liberia’s political landscape was dominated by the True Whig Party (TWP), which became the country’s principal ruling political organiz…

Liberia’s Progressive Movement did not emerge overnight, nor was it born from the military barracks.

MONROVIA — For decades, the world has known Liberia as a nation of resilience—a country that survived war, rebuilt its institutions, and continues to fight its…

MONROVIA — Two of West Africa’s most consequential cocaine cases are now unfolding in Ghana and Liberia, separated by geography but connected by a disturbing qu…

MONROVIA — The release of Jerry Nyantee Wrato by Criminal Court “B” has done more than free one man from police custody.

MONROVIA, LIBERIA — The controversy surrounding Vice President Jeremiah Kpan Koung at Brussels Airport may be about more than whether he was asked to remove an…