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MONROVIA, October 29 (LINA) - President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has asked the Senate to ratify a six-year US$150 million partnership agreement signed between the Governments of Norway and Liberia.
The partnership, which runs from 2014-2020, seeks to ensure that 10 percent or more of the Liberian forest is reserved while providing programs to build capacity and strengthen governance in national entities concerned with forest management.
In a letter to the Senate October 28, President Sirleaf stated that the agreement would cover the allocation of direct pilot payment to communities for protecting their forests and ensure full compliance with the law.
She said,70 percent of the agreement value will be paid between 2014 and 2015 while the balance will be settled between 2016 and 2020.
She clarified that the cooperation will not restrict commercial forestry outside the 10 percent reserved forest.
Liberia currently has around four percent of its land in forest reserve with much of it in Sinoe County.
Meanwhile, the senate has mandated its Committees on Forestry, Agriculture and the Judiciary to review the document and advise the body.
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MONROVIA, October 28 (LINA) -The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, arrived in Liberia Tuesday as part of a tour of the three countries hardest hit by the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.
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ROBERTSPORT, October 27 (LINA) - The Joint Security in Klay, Bomi County, has arrested an officer of the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization (BIN) for allegedly possessing 20 kilograms of marijuana.
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MONROVIA, October 28 (LINA) - The Vice President of the Liberia Business Association (LIBA), David K. Sembeh, has called on government to empower Liberian-owned businesses to enable them meet their corporate social responsibilities.
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MONROVIA, October 27 (LINA) -The Commander of the Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization (BIN) detachment in Grand Cape Mount County says the detachment has generated about US$500,000 from alien registration.
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MONROVIA, October 28 (LINA) - President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will not officially celebrate her 76th birth anniversary tomorrow, October 29, due to the national health crisis occasioned by the Ebola outbreak.
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MONROVIA, October 24 (LINA) - President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has congratulated the Government and People of the Federal Republic of Austria on the occasion of that country's 59th National Day.
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MONROVIA, October 27 (LINA) -The Ministry of Information, Cultural Affairs and Tourism (MICAT) and the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) have signed a memorandum of understanding, establishing protocols and requirements for the registration of media institutions and individual journalists.
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MONROVIA, October 24 (LINA) - The Executive Branch of Government has begun a study that would lead to a more uniformed and equitable compensation scheme among state-owned-enterprises (SoEs) and autonomous agencies.