Two Publishers Qualified For VP Election

The Ad-Hoc Elections Committee of the Publishers Association (PAL) has qualified two candidates to contest the vacant Vice President position of the organization.

According to a press release from the Committee, the Managing Editor of the Corruption Watch Newspaper, Roland Worwee and Sam Dean, Managing Editor of the Independent Newspaper have been qualified to vie for the position.

The release disclosed that the third candidate, Samuel Doe of the Nation Builder Newspaper was disqualified because he did not meet the financial requirement of the Elections Committee’s guideline.

Meanwhile, the PAL’s Ad-Hoc Elections Committee has declared campaign opened and that it will close on April 19, 2018 at 12 midnight. The press release said the election will take place on Friday, April 20; beginning at 8am and will end at 3pm at the offices of the Concord Times Newspaper on Ashmun Street.

The PAL Elections Committee said it invites the Press Union of Liberia and all media rights groups in the country to observe the polls. At the same time, the Committee has released the list of PAL institutional membership as follows:

1 DAILY OBSERVER
2 NEW DEMOCRAT
3 FRONT PAGE AFRICA
4 INQUIRER
5 THE NEWS
6 NEW DAWN
7. NEW REPUBLIC
8. INFORMER
9. HOT PEPPER
10. WOMEN VOICES
11. CAPITAL TIMES
12. HERITAGE
13. INSIGHT
14. FOCUS
15. SANDO MOORE IMAGES MAGAZINE
16. THE INDEPENDENT
17. CONCORD TIMES
18. PUBLIC AGENDA
19. ANALYST
20. LIBERIAN JOURNAL
21. CORRUPTION WATCH
21 DAILY GRAPHIC
22 LIBERIAN EXPRESS
23 CORRIDOR
24 MICROSCOPE
26 NATION TIMES
27 MONITOR
28 THE NEW LIBERIA
29 FRONTIER
30 PARROT
31 THE PEOPLE
32 NATIONAL WATCHDOG
33 INTEGRITY WATCH
34 AFRICA PROBE
35 INDEPENDENT PROBE
36 DAILY MAIL
37 STRAIGHT TALK
38 EVIDENCE
39 NATION BUILDER
40 EYE OF THE GLOBE
41 WEST AFRICA INFO-POST
42 BUSINESS DAY
43 AFRICA WATCH
44 THE ADVOCATE
45 DAILY GUIDE
46 WEST AFRICA PILOT
47 INPROFILE DAILY
48 XRAY
49 MEDIA WATCH
50 CAPEMOUNT MIRROR
51 GNN-LIBERIA
52 BONG TIMES
53 CITY OBSERVERS
54 LIBERIAN NATION
55 NEW VISION
56 CATALYST
57 THE GUARDIAN
58 THE REPORTER
59 NATIONAL ERA
60 THE PUNCH

Signed: Lewis K. Glay
Secretary General
Approved: Lyndon Ponnie
Chairman