I still need to do a longer article about the subject, but until I get that done, I would just like to quote the New Democrat from the 24th of June.
“Justice has become expensive and seeking it bears all the marks of inconvenience. The aggrieved person (the victim; my clarification) is not only expected to [...]
I was reminded of that apt bonmot by a senior diplomat in Liberia again when I saw photos from the inside of Charles Taylors residence, the so-called White Flower, in a newspaper recently.
As a devout disciple of Christ, Mr. Taylor of course had his private chapel for intimate conversations with the redeemer. Most likely this [...]
An acquaintance of mine, lost her expensive Japanese Luxury SUV a few weeks ago. Well, she did not actually loose it, it was stolen by her houseboy.
His duties of cooking and cleaning did not only leave him ample time to plan the theft in great detail, but also gave him the knowledge of where Venus [...]
There seem to be fewer of them these days, but I recently ran into on of them again. People who have this misguided notion that Africans are born conservationists, since they “live in harmony with nature”. Hearing this, I always have to suppress the Blackadder reflex, asking ” Tell me Mam/Sir have you ever visited [...]
Admitted: The Photo above is slightly unfair. It was taken over a year ago, when the central station of the Liberian National Fire-service had only that junker in the garage. Now, thanks to donations from UNMIL and others the station features a Renault 4×4 tanker truck, specialised for bush fires, a shining Chinese made copy [...]
It seemed to be a custom with the Liberian administrations that came to power by force that they immediately set out to plunder the fallen presidents houses.
And it was not the rank and file that started the looting. In most cases the plundering was led by members of the junta themselves, starting their spree to enrich [...]
The following true story was narrated to me by a friend of mine.
I decided to include it here because it nicely illustrates one of the daily small frustrations. For some reasons one can never get a straight answer to a question. It does not matter if the question is about history, technical matters, or just [...]
As reported before in this blog (see my entry “Scrapped Back To The Stone Age”), Liberia has lost most of her infrastructure to predatory scrapping during the war time. While normal scrap business is a legitimate business activity, and frees the residual value of a machine at the end of its service life, predatory scrapping [...]
I am afraid, that the love for Liberia alone will hardly be sufficient to entice new recruits to join the Liberia National Police. Paying them a living wage on the other hand might go a long way. Alternatively one could think about more thruthful bumper stickers:
I love being paid so little that I have to extort [...]
As reported in the “Plain Truth”, one drinker of the “faked” Heineken reported that he had suffered from constipation, but shortly after drinking the Heineken, his stomach started producing “rivers and streams”, and that “My stomach ran like hell to the extent that I almost die”.
Why anybody would try to fake such bad beer as [...]
