Wade's Report

 “Some of the students ran in my house for rescue, the police ran to the house stepped the door, they went on the children and start beating the children. All my doors them, half of my doors them they burst it, throwing rocks all over the building”. - Watta McGill, a resident of the Bassa Community Wade C.L. Williams wade.williams@frontpageafricaonline.com Bloody Tuesday Police Rain Havoc On G.W. Gibson High School Twenty Seven Students Sustain Severe Injuries 25 Arrested B lood running down his head, Varney Sherriff, hid himself in the bathroom hoping to escape the wrath of angry police wielding batons. But on this Tuesday, Sheriff, a 10 th Grade student at the G.W. Gibson School on the Capitol Bye Pass would not enjoy the luxury of an escape as officers of the Liberian National Police followed a trail of blood and wreaked havoc on the young lad in his temporary hideout. This was the scene Tuesday at several points in Monrovia when police officers tried to quell...

Police Brutality Surfaces In Peaceful Assembly by Students              Police blocks student from demonstrating before the Ministry of education on Monday A student protesting police brutality Student diaplay placards demanding government pay their teachers Wade C.L. Williams Monrovia's main street, Broad Street was a scene of chaos when riot police armed with sticks resorted to violence to disburse a crowd of protesting students. Students of the Matilda Newport Junior High School on Newport Street garthered Monday morning as early as 8:00am before the Ministry of Education to demand why teachers were boycutting classes.   The students told reporters on the scene that they were told by their teachers that they (teachers) have not received their salaries from the Liberian government for several months now. "The main reason that we are on the street is because our teachers are saying they have not been paid therefore the...

Students say they were protesting the continuous absence of teachers from the classroom Riot police chase students beating them with sticks One of the students who was beaten by the police                                    MOE’s Deputy Communications Director J. Shannon Goe                        Principal of the Matilda Newport Junior High School Mr. Steven George  Police Brutality Surfaces In Peaceful Assembly of Students Wade C.L. Williams Monrovia's main street, Broad Street was a scene of chaos when riot police armed with sticks resorted to violence to disburse a crowd of protesting students. Students of the Matilda Newport Junior High School on Newport Street garthered Monday morning as early...

The Children of the deceased described their father as an outstanding person, a man of principles with strong family values. The Government of Liberia in its lamentation said Liberia has lost a dedicated public servant. The Children and sympathizers watch as the mortal remains of Mr. Tubman is being lowered into the grave                  Mrs. Rachel Tubman wife of the deceased being consoled by her siblings The body of the deceased being carried by his fellow masons  A cross section of sympathizers including Musa Bility of the LFA Cllr. Winston Tubman and other family members listen to the eulogy, saddened by such great loss                                       Aquilla Cox and William V.S. Tubman Jr.at the fun...

Site of the Du-Port Road Massacre Jackson Gbeyor, an ex-combatant ‘Dry Bones Cry’   Time to Bury Liberia’s War Dead?   Wade C.L. Williams Two white stars painted on the basketball court at the Lutheran Church on 15th Street are all that mark the buried remains of more than 500 people killed in the infamous 1990 massacre here. On that July night, Liberians fleeing for their lives thought they had found a safe haven in the church compound. Surely, they believed, troops would never storm a place of worship. But the Liberian army forces serving President Samuel Kanyon Doe proved even holy ground would not stop their effort to smoke out rebels. Samuel Mehn, 41, a security guard with Liberia’s Mennonite Church, narrowly escaped the massacre at the Lutheran Church. He says it was a brush with death that he can still recall vividly.   “The entire compound was surrounded by men who had guns, cutlasses and axes,” Mehn says.   “They said, ‘Finally we have gotten these rebels....

Positively Impacting Education J.J. Roberts Foundation commemorates Founder’s 202nd Birth Anniversary  Wade C.L. Williams Programs marking the celebration of the birthday of the Late President Roberts began from the College of West Africa , Ashmun Street , at 8:30 A. M. on March 15 with a parade of the Foundation’s scholarship students from high schools, colleges and technical institutions to the Center Street grave site where they laid floral designs in memory of their benefactor. Thereafter, the students marched to the Ducor Hillside Monument for the laying of floral designs and back to the First United Methodist Church for the indoor program which began at 11:00 A.M.  Joseph Jenkins Roberts, the first and seventh president of Liberia (1848 – 1856 and 1872 – 1876), established in perpetuity the “Joseph Jenkins Roberts Educational Foundation” in his LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT admitted to Probate 6 th day of March A.D. 1876 leaving his entire estate (coffee farm) and a Un...