KAKATA, June 27 (LINA) - A student of the Kakata Rural Teacher Training Institute (KRTTI) has died of the Ebola at the Charles Henry Rennie Memorial Hospital in Kakata City, the provincial capital of Margibi County.

MONROVIA, June 27 (LINA) - Bong County Senior Senator Jewel Howard Taylor has advanced a four-point recommendation to robustly fight drug use and trafficking in the country.
She recommended adequate funding, creation and implementation of an aggressive information, education and dissemination program which encourages prevention of drug use by the ever-growing population of young people.

UPPER DARBY (USA), June 27 (LINA) -The Liberian Association of Pennsylvania (LAP), in collaboration with the Liberian Embassy in Washington DC  and the Union of Liberian Associations in the Americas, will celebrate Liberia’s 167th Independence Day in Pennsylvania.

GBARNGA, JUNE 26, (LINA) -  Deputy Public Works Minister for Rural Development and Community Services, Jackson J. Paye, is urging rural dwellers to take ownership of existing safe water facilities for sustained access to clean water.

MONROVIA, June 27 (LINA) -Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal Affairs, Cllr. Boakai Kanneh, has disclosed that government is developing mechanisms to prevent the commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Liberia.

MONROVIA, June 27 (LINA) – The Ministry of Internal Affair has lauded the level of work being done in connecting Sinoe and Grand Kru counties by motor road for the first time.

MONROVIA, June 26 (LINA) - President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has donated a motorbike to the Suakoko Leprosy Center in Bong County to help ease the transportation problem at the center.

By Ballah Kollie, LINA Bong County Correspondent

GBARNGA, June 26 (LINA) - The Commissioner of Panta District in Bong County has lauded the prompt intervention of Agriculture Ministry authorities in containing the spread of caterpillars in the district.

MONROVIA. June 26 (LINA) -The Coordinator of the Multilateral Environment Agreement and Climate Change Enabling Activities at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has warned Liberians to stop building houses in wetlands.

MONROVIA, June 26 (LINA) - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has received from the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) a grant of $US415,000 to conduct analytical research on climate change on two of Liberia’s economic landscapes.