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13/03/2017

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Three suspected criminals have been killed in B**g as a result of mob violence in less than one month.

21/02/2017

08/02/2017

Scores of citizens of B**g and other counties gathered in Gbarnga this past Saturday to welcome home Jeremiah C. Sulunteh, Sr., Liberia's former ambassador to United States, Canada, and Mexico afte...

29/01/2017

29/01/2017

As we approach the opening of Voters Registration for the October elections, the Youth Agenda on Radio Gbarnga will today have as guest, Eddie D. Jarwolo, Executive Director, NAYMOTE-Liberia. NAYMOTE is an organization working in democratic governance in Liberia since 2001. The executive director will talk about the organization's involvement with young people during these electoral processes. You can leave your comments for airing. The show starts 3:15 today.

26/01/2017

NAYMOTE-Liberia makes great moves: assists the National Elections Commission in raising awareness on voters registration process slated for February 1 to March 7. Thanks NAYMOTE!!!!!!

26/01/2017

Great being selected along with colleague Philip Singbah of Radio Gbarnga as fellows of Thomson Reuters Foundation/New Narratives Extractives Reporting Project in Liberia. A highlight of our first training that opened this morning in Monrovia.

22/01/2017

Former Gbarnga mayor, Josiah Marvin Cole, has declared that he would be a candidate for representative seat of electoral district three in B**g County in the 2017 Elections.
Cole was recently dismissed by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as mayor of Gbarnga for "not following the city ordinance."
But Cole believes some leaders of the county were behind his dismissal. He says he wants to be representative to ensure "his dream of developing and cleaning Gbarnga is achieved.
He was petitioned on Saturday, January 21 in Gbarnga by group of citizens.

22/01/2017

Ambassador Jeremiah Sulunteh has arrived in the country from Washington DC. The ambassador has officially ended his tour of duty as Liberia's Ambassador to United States, Canada and Mexico. His family members, friends and supporters welcomed him today at the Roberts International Airport in Margibi County. Thanks to Philip Singbah and Selma Lomax of our staff for these photos.

19/01/2017

The Liberia Bank for Development and Investment, (LBDI), in collaboration with the administration of Phebe Hospital has purchased a brand new 350 KVA generator for the hospital in Suakoko, B**g County.

The US$75,000 generator was presented to the administration of Phebe on Saturday on the hospital’s compound.
Under the partnership, LBDI paid US$45,000 and Phebe Hospital will pay US$30,000 for the generator. The generator was presented on Saturday, January 14 on Phebe Compound.

The bank’s president, John B.S. Davies III, said the generator is one of few social cooperate responsibility interventions the bank made in different sectors in Liberia as part of its 50th anniversary celebration as a financial institution in the country.

18/01/2017

East International Group Incorporated has resumed the pavement of streets in Gbarnga after a five-month break on the project.

B**g’s leadership hired the company in January 2016 to pave 2.4 km of streets in the city.

The pavement is being laid on two major streets – Gbarnga Broad Street (1.8 km) and Madam Suakoko Street (0.6 km).

County officials have attributed the delay to the lack of funding to pay the contractor for the project.

The contract signed between the county and the contractor lists the cost of the project at US$ 1.35 million.

The county has already paid half that amount even though the pavement itself has not reached fifty percent.

The project is now continuing because of an allotment in the current national budget.

Rep. Prince K. Moye, Sr., chairperson on the House’s Committee on Ways, Means, Finance and Budget, and Rep. George S. Mulbah, Sr. recently announced at a local intellectual center in Gbarnga that there is US$ l million in the current budget to continue the project.

“As leaders of the county, we managed to convince our colleagues to allot this amount to continue the pavement of the streets,” Moye said.The two lawmakers also revealed that there are negotiations underway with USAID for the pavement of additional streets in the city.

“We are now in serious discussion with USAID to help us pave some other streets in Gbarnga,” Mulbah said. “We as a county are to do some portion of the work that we are negotiating with USAID. As soon as those negotiations are concluded, we will inform you, our citizens.”
During a recent tour of the pavement project, B**g’s County Superintendent Selena Polson Mappy cautioned East International’s contractors to use the proper materials needed to ensure that the pavement is strong.

Mappy noted that in most instances, some contractors implementing projects in the county use substandard materials, thereby reducing the longevity of the infrastructure.

“In 2017, my work as head of this county will not just be in my office,” she said. “I will visit all the projects that are being implemented to make sure they are done properly.”

“These projects are at the hearts of our people and so we must make sure they are done very well to serve them for the longest time,” Mappy added.

Citizens and residents of Gbarnga had been complaining of dust and bad road conditions in the city before the pavement project commenced.