After years of development neglect, characterized by abject poverty, citizens of Tallah Township in Grand Cape Mount County are now beginning to taste the benefits of modernizations, where a Diaspora Liberian-group has intervened to provide people there with safe drinking water.
   Though distant away from their land nativity, the Tallah Development Corporation (TDC), an umbrella grouping of citizens hailing from the area, has initially constructed several hand pumps that will provide safe drinking water for citizens and residents of the township, as a means of alleviating health risks.
      Speaking to this paper during a tour of the township over the weekend, TDC Project Coordinator, Momolu Gaspa, said the provision of safe drinking water to citizens was the entity's own way of identifying with residents of the area.
     Describing the hand pumps project as a farsighted venture by TDC, Mr. Gaspa says it is unfortunate that NGOs have refused to assist the communities within Tallah Town with safe drinking water.

- Hospital Reject a Patient for Her Tribe; Compels Her to Change Name from 'Matenneh' To 'Tracy' Before Admittance
No patient or sick person running to a hospital for treatment will expect to be confronted with immigration questions of names or identity. No one expect hospitals in Liberia to reflect the country’s age old crises of identity and participation. These identity crises, which sowed the seeds of the many discords, have manifested themselves in an ugly cong-native divide and intra-native ethnicity, tribalism and religious bias. It has left the society divided and paralyzed for so long that a unification policy designed to heal its wounds and unify its people is still a cry in the wilderness.   As Samuka V. Konneh Of Our Staff Reports, the JFK Hospital is being accused of practicing discrimination even at the detriment of a patient’s life; especially so at a time when the St. Joseph’s Catholic Hospital is nearing closure. Many wonder if this is the way JFK would welcome the sick!
While Liberians are gripped with the fevers of national unification, to their dismay, family members of Ms. Matenneh Kamara, have alleged that authorities of the John F. Kennedy (JFK) Memorial Hospital, Liberia's pioneer referral medical center, last week refused to treat their daughter because of her tribe.
      Miss. Kamara was taken to JFK on Tuesday May 8, 2012 by her brother, Amadou V. M. Komara, for severe injuries on her head.

-Most Liberians Still See A Fractured Society, Unification Policy Notwithstanding
     Unification policy was formulated in Liberia of old because of the need to unite the people of the country behind one common national agenda. It must have occurred to the thinkers about the state of affairs then, that a reform of the conditions that existed was direly needed and that such societal wise transformation could come about when a policy is laid out and pursued relentlessly.
    Today after many decades of exerting some effort to achieve the much needed objective of the unification policy, the people are still unsure about the outcome of those efforts. Those expressing this view about unification have pointed to the bloody violence in the turbulent history of the country using it as evidence of the failure of unification. Their argument rests on the tripod of the 1979 rice riot, the 1980 military coup and the decades of civil wars that devastated the country and left scars on the nation that has yet to be completely or satisfactorily healed.
    Largely, the people still remain evidently divided on the outcome of the process of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) which, it was hoped would construct the true story of the root causes of Liberia’s woes through impartial research and heal the wounds inflicted on its people through appropriate recommendations that would address the need for justice or end to impunity.

- Didn't Government Say 'No Bikini For Miss Liberia's Contestants?'
Days creeping in on the official date for the hosting of this year's Miss Liberia Beauty Pageant in April this year at the Centennial Memorial Pavilion in Monrovia, a caveat-message from Liberia was strong and reverberating: 'organizers are warned not to allow contestants wear bikini or any swimming clothes that will expose Liberian ladies.'
      The Liberian government through the Ministry of Information, Culture Affairs and Tourism, said it took the stance to protect the dignity of Liberian women by not allowing them parade virtually strapped in the name of pageantry.
     Assistant Information Minister for Information Service, Atty. Isaac Jackson, in public radios and telephone conversation called on the pageant's chief organizer, Chris Onanugar of CT.Com to respect a Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) with the Liberian government not to make the Liberian ladies 'strape' during the contest.
      Many in the public described the stance by GOL a good one, but with skepticism that such warning as a mere public relations stunt ahead of the main event. Besides the public, Mr. Onanugar, too, saw it as joke.