Month: December 2023

Law & Governance, Politics & Society

A Comparative Law Perspective on How to Defeat Liberia’s “Major Public Enemy”

By: Atty Wonderr Koryenen Freeman    Originally Published in March 2014 The United States Government (USG) Human Rights (HR) Report (2013) recently summed up a grim indictment of Liberia’s fight against corruption. According to the USG HR Report (2013), the Liberian Anti Corruption Commission (LACC), the Liberian Government lead agency in the war on graft, during the year (2013), “received 25 cases, investigated 23 cases, and recommended

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Political Economy, Politics & Society

Liberia has a system problem, but the failed politicians want to keep the country-congau debate going – A Critique of the Economic Governance System (Part 2)

By: Wonderr K. Freeman      Originally Published in August 2017 After getting a free pass from the ideologues and adherents of the country-congau divisive politicking, I feel absolutely vindicated and even bullish to move on to part two of my series on Liberia’s system problem. If Liberia is to progress as a nation, its system issues must be identified and addressed, head-on. Scapegoating, prevarications, and obfuscations will

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Politics & Society

Liberia has a system problem, but the failed politicians want to keep the country-congau debate going – A Critique of the Political Administration System (Part-1)

By Wonderr K. Freeman      Originally Published in August 2017 The country-congau chief ideologue, Jay wion, is not going to be a happy man after reading this article, because it makes so much sense he will not have an answer for it. Like Rip van Winkle JAY fell asleep in 1957, and just woke up in 2017. So he finds understanding the present-day Liberia too downright bizarre.

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Politics & Society,

On Behalf Of The “Book People”

By: Wonderr Freeman Originally Published in October 25, 2004 If all the degree holders were to conglomerate in one locality or in one building, I should consider myself fit enough to be a proud gatekeeper, knowing fully well that the degree I have earned is still further down the ladder. Furthermore, it should be considered no disrespect to the bigwigs amongst the “book people” if I

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Politics & Society,

Taking the low road to the Executive Mansion- the case of Liberia’s ruling Unity Party

 by Wonderr K. Freeman, Mon, Lib Originally Published in December 2017 In the Hillary Clinton vs Donald Trump match-up [2016], Michelle Obama made the famous quip that “when they go low, we go high”. Of course, the “low” was a reference to Trump’s bare-knuckle, no-smear-barred style of campaigning.  And the “high” was Clinton sticking’s to the issues and the script. Unfortunately, judging from how the American

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Business & Finance, Political Economy,

NIGERIA and LIBERIA’s Central Banks Thread Separate Paths on Micro-Small Medium Enterprise (MSME) Financing

By: Atty Wonderr K. Freeman,   Originally Published in November 2013 The Central Bank of Liberia (CBL, herein after) and its Governor, Dr. Mills Jones, have been under pressure lately. Its microfinance and SME policy has come under heavy suspicion by the Liberia Senate and other Liberian technocrats. It’s not farfetched to say that most of the senators don’t quite understand that boring subject called economics –

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