Residents and travelers along the Fish Town-Harper highway in Southeastern Liberia are experiencing hardship due to the bad road condition in the area.
According to our reporter who just returned from the region, a truck marked BT-1517 and an Isuzu trooper jeep with plate #BC 2679 on Sunday, August 29, 2010 got stuck along the highway at the Jappaken mud, near the village of Nyantienbo, in the Webbo District River Gee County, thereby making it difficult for the passage of both commuters and other vehicles on that muddy route.
As a result of the deplorable road condition, transshipment trucks and other vehicles conveying passengers and business people along the route are also entrapped at the bad mud that is holding vehicles.
The situation was so grave that assessment teams from the Ministry of Education (MOE) and the German Agro Action could not continue their tour of educational and other facilities in the area.
The MOE team was headed by the Deputy Education Minister for Planning, Research and Development, Dr. Kadiker Rex Dahn, while the German Agro Action team was also headed by the Officer-In-Charge (OIC), Philip Cooper.
Both officials told the Daily Observer in a separate interview that they were out rightly frustrated over the deplorable road condition which had prevented them from assessing ongoing educational and other projects in the region.
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Thumbs up, Professor Mayson
Updated: September 2, 2010 - 12:22pm
Thumbs up, Professor Mayson
Dear Mr. Editor:
Please allow me a space in your paper to say thumbs up to Professor Dew Mayson for the launch of his book “In the Cause of the People.” Although I have not read the book, the hints I gathered from the newspapers so far point towards highlighting the contributions of Professor Mayson and other “Progressives” to the struggle for democracy in Liberia.
Congratulations are in order, Ambassador Mayson. I look forward to reading your book. Magna opus!
Alston C. Armah
YMCA OF LIBERIA
Dismal Performance of Students
Dear Mr. Editor
I have read with interest the varying views on the issue of the dismal performance of students in the WAEC Exams and until now, had decided to reserve my comments.
Let it be told that the cause of such failure is wholly and solely the responsibility of the teachers who taught these students and the institutions that these teachers represent.
By presenting a student to the Ministry of Education as being ready for the WAEC Exams what a school is saying in effect is that this student has already attended said institution, been instructed in the curriculum given by WAEC by teachers of said institutions, successfully passed in similar Mock Examinations given by these institutions and thus deemed mentally fit and ready to tackle the WAEC Exams.