{"id":192481,"date":"2025-02-28T15:08:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T13:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-senator-duncan-blames-government-for-rising-cost-of-living-in-liberia\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T15:08:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T13:08:46","slug":"liberia-senator-duncan-blames-government-for-rising-cost-of-living-in-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-senator-duncan-blames-government-for-rising-cost-of-living-in-liberia\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Senator Duncan Blames Government for Rising Cost of Living in Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Monrovia \u2014 Senator Crayton O. Duncan, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Autonomous Commissions and Agencies, has raised concerns over the high cost of living in Liberia, attributing it to the government&#8217;s failure to control commodity prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">He criticized the Unity Party (UP)-led administration of President Joseph Nyuma Boakai for not regulating market prices, which he claims has led to severe hardship for Liberians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">In a communication delivered to the Plenary of the Liberian Senate on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502280270.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 Senator Crayton O. Duncan, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Autonomous Commissions and Agencies, has raised concerns over the high cost of living in Liberia, attributing it to the government&#8217;s failure to control commodity prices. He criticized the Unity Party (UP)-led administration of President Joseph Nyuma Boakai for not regulating market prices, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":192482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,8259,6629,24969,6427,4712,1107,7741,257,6678,7798,254],"class_list":["post-192481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blames","tag-cost","tag-duncan","tag-government","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-living","tag-news","tag-rising","tag-senator","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}