ROBERTSPORT, July 1 (LINA) -Grand Cape Mount County Senator Abel Massaley is calling on education authorities to use the West African Examination Council (WAEC) certificate as a yardstick for direct entry of high school graduates into universities.

TUBAMANBURG, July 1 (LINA) -The Coordinator of the Liberia Youth Employment Program (LYEP), Saidu Vasco Nyei, says Liberia needs men and women of sound mind and good character to develop the country.

ROBERTSPORT, July1 (LINA) -Police in Robertsport, Grand Cape Mount County have arrested a foster father for allegedly raping his step daughter. According to the Liberia News Agency correspondent in the county, the incident allegedly occurred on June 26 in the Kru Community in Robertsport.

GBARNGA, July 1 (LINA) - A  Liberian women delegation has left the country for Kigali, Rwanda to attend the Global Forum of Women in Parliament (WIP).

The group, headed by Bong County Senior Senator Jewel Howard-Taylor as Ambassador of the Liberian Chapter, includes Senator Geraldine Doe Sheriff, Clarice Alpha Jah and Madam Mallah Gbogar left the country on Monday.

MONROVIA, July 1 (LINA) - President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has applauded the administration of Ricks Institute for responding to government’s call to provide quality education to Liberian youth. She also praised the school’s administration for instilling discipline, respect, and honesty in Liberian youth.

KAKATA, July 1 (LINA) -Nurses at the C. H. Rennie Memorial Hospital in Kakata, Margibi County have abandoned work for fear of contracting the Ebola virus following the death of a patient last Thursday.

According to the Liberia News Agency, the nurses said they lack Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to treat any would-be Ebola patient at the hospital.

MONROVIA, July 1 (LINA) - President Ellen Johnson Sileaf has warned against concealing information about suspected Ebola cases, noting that it is illegal under Liberia’s public health law to expose other people to health hazards such as Ebola.

“Let this warning go out, anyone found or reported to be holding suspected Ebola cases in homes or prayer house will be prosecuted under the laws of Liberia, ” she said.

MONROVIA, July 1 (LINA) -The Health Ministry has reported that 49 persons have died from the Ebola disease in Liberia from 90 confirmed cases as at June 29.

A Health Ministry press release issued here Monday said the dead include five healthcare workers, 27 victims from Lofa County, 20 from Montserrado County and two from Margibi County.

A Professor of Tropical Zoology at the University of Greenwich in the United Kingdom (UK) has urged the Liberian Government to preserve the environment to ensure productive farming in the country.

Commerce Minister Axel Addy has said that the Liberian business community is progressing from one stage to another with commensurate development of the country’s business sector.