Editorial Board

As attacks on merchant ships in and around the Strait of Hormuz hit a record in October, with a container ship sunk, tankers set ablaze, 24 seafarers killed and…

On the last day of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Liberia’s survivors and advocates did what a health system is supposed to do: they told women that cancer is n…

Six months after the House of Representatives expelled Rep. Yekeh Kolubah while a Supreme Court stay order was pending, the full bench has heard his appeal and…

A Senate committee wants US$792,552 in the FY2027 budget for pay raises inside the Senate, with 70 percent going to senators’ personal offices. With half of Lib…

Jos Leijdekkers’ fingerprints are turning up in port after port, patrol after patrol, from Freetown to Tema to a beach in Liberia — not because one fugitive is…

THE GOVERNMENT of Liberia recently received a $200 million signature bonus from ArcelorMittal in connection with the extension of its Minerals Development Agree…

LIBERIA HAS DONE something it has never done before. For the first time in 179 years, the government has raised more than a billion dollars at home in a single…

IN JUNE, THE country watched a vessel — the IB Atlantic IV — sit off Grand Cape Mount County for the better part of a week while officials debated what …

Two opposition alliances in a decade have collapsed for the same reason: leaders who agreed on what they were against, but not on who among them mattered less….

Liberia’s Constitution and Penal Code already say what should happen to a secretly recorded conversation. A precedent set in one courtroom this year should not…

Part One of this newspaper’s series on Liberia’s cocaine reckoning was not really a story about a vessel, a stash house, or even a former Vice President. It was…

One hundred and seventy-nine years ago, seven women stitched a promise into cloth. This Flag Day, as a former Vice President stands charged and a police chief’s…

Arresting a former Vice President took courage. Arresting the serving officers and officials still linked to the same network will take something harder: a will…