DECEMBER 19, 2007   WILLIAM V.S. TUBMAN COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY MAY NOT OPEN IN 2008 Marylanders dissappointed as new administrators tour facilities.   The hopes of the residents of Maryland were dashed when the Vice Presidents for Administration and Operations of the William V.S. Tubman College of Technology said the College will not open in 2008. The opening of the William V.S. Tubman College of Technology is tentatively 2009. The Interim Vice President for Administration, Mr. T. Dahn Bestman and the Interim Vice President for Operations, Mr. Mason Goe disclosed this information to the residents of the County during a Mass citizen meeting. T. Dahn Bestman, Interim VP The meeting was called by the County Superintendent Sie Teba Neufville to officially introduce them to the people of the County. Mr. Bestman and Goe brought along with them some engineers to access the College facilities. They said their mission to the County was to carry on assessment of the college facilities and advance some recommendations to the Government. They did not say what the recommendations will be. However Superintendent Neufville told them that the tentative time schedule for the opening of the College should be re-examine. He said the LOIC building opposite the College campus could be used for classes while the main campus is under renovation. Mr. Bestman said with the new development of the Superintendent suggesting that the LOIC building should be used for academic purposes there is likely hood that there could be adjustment in the schedule time but however, upon their return to Monrovia, it will be discussed among the hierarchy of the College. There are two major problems that are the stumbling blocks to the progress of Maryland County. They are the lack of good roads and higher institution of learning. TC bldg. before clearing During the visit of the President of Liberia, Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and her Cabinet Ministers in April 2007, the people of the County requested for the speedy renovation and opening of the Technical College. In her response to the people, she said plans were underway to renovate and reopen the college but the youths of the County should start to cut the bushes on the campus and uproot the trees that were growing in the classrooms. With that statement from the President, an independent committee chaired by Reverend Cyrus Tugbe immediately started the cleaning up exercise. The Rubber Planters Association of Liberia of Cavalla Rubber Plantation made cash contribution through the Maryland Progressive Alliance to the Independent Committee and Mrs. Willette Freeman of New Jersey U.S.A. also made cash contribution to the Committee. The contributions were used to feed the workers on the campus. The Committee cut the bushes and trees but they are growing back because no work has been done on the buildings up to the time of this story. TC bldg. after clearing Observers believe that the Government is not yet ready for the renovation of the College because they believe that when the Government is ready, it will provide motor graders or machines for the cleaning up of the campus as it has provided four-door pickups for the Interim Management of the College.

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