{"id":1689,"date":"2010-04-30T09:55:43","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T14:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/previous.delicious.com\/url\/4e09130f573af29102d65317b5f65683#tomathon"},"modified":"2010-04-30T09:55:43","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T14:55:43","slug":"liberian-pols-to-convene-town-hall-meeting-in-staten-island-nyc-3-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/04\/liberian-pols-to-convene-town-hall-meeting-in-staten-island-nyc-3-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberian pols to convene town hall meeting in Staten Island (NYC)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. &#8212; A delegation of Liberian cabinet members will convene a town hall meeting on strategies for reducing poverty in the West African nation whose infrastructure remains decimated by war.<\/p>\n<p>The forum is Saturday at 3 p.m. in Christ Assembly Lutheran Church, Stapleton.<\/p>\n<p>The speakers include Liberia\u2019s Minister of Planning and Economic Affairs Amara Konneh; Augustine Ngafuan, minister of finance; Brownie Sumakai, minister of defense; Kofi Woods, minister of public works, and Dr. William Allen, director general of civil service. &#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. &#8212; A delegation of Liberian cabinet members will convene a town hall meeting on strategies for reducing poverty in the West African nation whose infrastructure remains decimated by war.<\/p>\n<p>The forum is Saturday at 3 p.m. in Christ Assembly Lutheran Church, Stapleton.<\/p>\n<p>The speakers include Liberia&rsquo;s Minister of Planning and Economic Affairs Amara Konneh; Augustine Ngafuan, minister of finance; Brownie Sumakai, minister of defense; Kofi Woods, minister of public works, and Dr. William Allen, director general of civil service. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/04\/liberian-pols-to-convene-town-hall-meeting-in-staten-island-nyc-3-2\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[107,135],"tags":[249,93,423],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1678,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2012\/11\/staten-island-in-a-race-for-lives\/","url_meta":{"origin":1689,"position":0},"title":"Hurricane Sandy:  Staten Island in a Race for Lives","date":"November 2, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"As You Know, the Marathon was cancelled within hours of writing this.\u00a0 Promises were made to move their resources to disaster zones. 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