The Liberian Investigator

A civil servant can help finance Liberia’s budget twice: first through tax withheld from her salary, then through the fare she pays to get to work, which reflec…

Liberia’s minerals will eventually run out. The question is what Liberians will have when they do: productive businesses, skilled workers and functioning commun…

CAPITOL HILL, Monrovia — House Speaker Richard Nagbe Koon is weighing a 2029 run for the Sinoe County District 1 seat held by Rep. Thomas Romeo Quioh, one of th…

MONROVIA — The National Fisheries and Aquaculture Authority has secured a US$325,000 grant from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to b…

AFRODAD’s assessment of the IMF and World Bank annual meetings reveals a troubling reality: African countries are surrendering a growing share of their revenues…

The reported US$1.8 million petroleum levy shortfall involving Bea Mountain raises a fundamental question: Why should a country struggling to finance roads, sch…

THE QUALITY OF ANY education system begins with the quality of its teachers. Before a child reaches secondary school or university, someone must teach that chil…

BANGKOK – Liberia’s fisheries regulator is using a World Bank-backed project, which has now disbursed more than 80% of its funds, as a springboard to court priv…

United Nations – Liberia has again backed Morocco’s autonomy proposal for Western Sahara, telling a United Nations committee that the plan is the most realistic…

Washington – A partnership could give Liberian students, teachers, and researchers access to faculty and student exchanges, scholarships, and joint research wit…

Liberia does not belong to the men who occupy its highest offices. Neither does the House of Representatives belong to whichever faction can gather enough lawma…

The University of Liberia cannot be expected to accommodate twice the number of students its campus was built for and deliver the quality of education the count…

The exchange rate has moved from about L$190 to L$170 for US$1, but small traders say wholesalers still convert their purchases at the old rate. The government…

MONROVIA – BASA Development Initiatives has become the first Liberian nongovernmental organization based at One UN House, moving its national headquarters into…

Liberians abroad should not have to choose between loving their country and protecting their savings. If President Joseph Nyuma Boakai wants them to invest at h…

GBARNGA, Bong County – There was a time when Johnny Kpehe could not cross Gbarnga without collecting a crowd. Young people called him “J.” Market traders greete…

Liberia stands on the edge of a milestone that once appeared beyond the government’s immediate reach. With reported collections at US$997.43 million as of Sept….

Liberia gave up about US$41 million in rice taxes in 2024 on the promise that the sacrifice would protect poor families. The World Bank now says most of the ben…

President Joseph Boakai should withdraw Alex Chersia Grant’s nomination to the Public Procurement and Concessions Commission.

YEKEPA, Nimba County — All 41 students from the ArcelorMittal Liberia school system who took the 2026 West African Senior School Certificate Examination passed,…

PAYNESVILLE – Former President George Weah accused the Boakai administration of tampering with justice in the drug case against the woman who served as his vice…

Sweden has closed its embassy in Monrovia and ended its bilateral development assistance to Liberia. What has departed is not merely a donor and a diplomatic fl…