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Liberia: Margibi County Legislative Caucus, Citizens Want Drug Abuse Become Nonbailable Offense Liberia: Margibi County Legislative Caucus, Citizens Want Drug Abuse Become Nonbailable Offense Share Capitol Hill, Monrovia —  Citizens of Margibi County through their Legislative Caucus are calling for a review of the existing drug law of Liberia to make drug abuse a nonbailable offense. The law is currently under review by the 54 th Legislature for possible amendment. The review comes at a time of an increasing wave of illegal drug use, mostly among young people across the country. Kakata, a ...

LIBERIA: Deputy Speaker Fonati Koffa Vows To Promote Gender Equity Bill At The National Legislature LIBERIA: Deputy Speaker Fonati Koffa Vows To Promote Gender Equity Bill At The National Legislature The Deputy Speaker of the House of Counselor and Representatives, Jonathan Fonati Koffa declared his support to the Gender Equity in Politics Act of 2010 aimed at seeking the increased involvement of women in Liberia’s political process. The bill if passed will mandate that women occupy at least 30% of all national elected offices and leadership positions in political parties, noting that ...

“It was stressful, but also probably one of the things I felt really good about last year,” said Kendra Oishi, the university board’s executive administrator and secretary. To understand how giant these leaps are, consider that until a few years ago clerks processed state employee overtime by hand and calculator and penciled totals in a ledger. Some state government workers must still fill out carbon paper forms to request leave. During the pandemic, state courts went from holding essentially no video conferences to conducting 128,000 cases on Zoom and WebEx between August and December...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   MONTPELIER — The state’s sexual assault criminal statutes are outdated, especially when it comes to defining consent and the role of alcohol and drugs, according to supporters of a bill now before the House Judiciary Committee. The bill, H. 183, had its initial hearing Wednesday and was introduced during a news conference hosted by one of its three main sponsors, Rep. Sarah Copeland Hanzas, D-Orange-2. “No Vermonters should experience rape compounded by the absence of justice,” Copeland Hanzas said. “We need to tak...

Victims deserve justice, not political score settling After 140 female legislators, staffers and lobbyists signed a shocking letter in 2017 denouncing a California Capitol culture where men “leveraged their power and positions to treat us however they like,” the Legislature had a #MeToo reckoning. Talk of this toxic culture — and the lackadaisical attitude toward it — had simmered for years, so the resulting actions were long overdue. Later that year, two assemblymen and a senator resigned from their seats in the wake of sexual-harassment allegations (which they denied). The Legislatu...