Washington Global economic growth and expanded employment will be a significant part of the agenda at the annual summit of the Group of Eight major industrialized nations in Northern Ireland on June 17–18, a White House economic adviser says.

By Hawa Wesseh,Monrovia Reports have it that Liberia-the national team, Lone Stars and delegation that flew into Kampala on June 6th are enraged over Chadian referee, Adam Cordier‘s handling of the Cranes- Stars match at Mandela Namboole Stadium in Kampala a fortnight ago.

Washington The United States plans to spend $9 billion on nutrition activities through 2014, says U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Rajiv Shah.

Fifty years after President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, American women on average are still making only 77 cents for every dollar a man earns.

By Hawa Wesseh Liberia goes to Kampala for the 2014 Brazil World Cup qualifier with a 32- man team headed by George Weah as the curtains come off the Kampala Namboole Stadium, with the Cranes and their opponents slotting it out in a tango. Reports say it is a crucial tie for the two countries.

By Moses D. Sandy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania A foreign- based Liberian Journalist says there can be no peace in Liberia without the trial of individuals who committed war crimes against humanity and the state of Liberia.

U.S. State Department, Washington, D.C For the first time, the U.S. Department of State’s Rewards for Justice program is offering rewards for information on key leaders of terrorist organizations in West Africa: al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJWA); and the groups known as the Signed-in-Blood Battalion and Boko Haram.

By Trokon Omarley Yeabah, Nanjing, China The world entered the year 2012 facing a stark reality: one in three workers in the labor force is currently either unemployed or poor. That is, out of a global labor force of 3.3 billion, 200 million are unemployed and a further 900 million are living with their families below the US$2 a day poverty line, largely in developing countries. Liberia being among the…

By Mambu James Kpargoi, Monrovia Three young Liberian professionals have released a policy guidance note on the sustainable management of revenue to be generated from Liberia’s emerging oil and gas sector. The policy guidance paper: “Sustainable Oil Revenue Management: A MODEL Consideration for Liberia” is authored by Urias Goll, Environmental Economist currently seconded by the National Oil Company of Liberia to Chevron in Houston, Texas; Mambu James Kpargoi, Public Policy…