MONROVIA-The Minister of State for presidential Affairs, Mr. Sylvester M. Grigsby has died in America following a protracted sickness, members of the family have mentioned.
Minister Grigsby was a longtime pal to president Boakai, spanned from their college days on the Faculty of West Africa. He was in Texas, USA the place he has been present process therapy.
This paper not too long ago listened to a phone dialog between him and a senior official the place he mentioned, he didn’t know when he would be again to Liberia.
“I have no idea after I will probably be again however after I get again, I’ll name you in order that we are able to look into a few of these issues,” he advised the official.
He has been in public service for greater than forty years. He was identified for his strategic position performed within the diplomatic discipline.
Previous to his dying, he held numerous positions in authorities, as Deputy Minister of Worldwide Cooperation, Deputy Minister of Overseas Affairs and later minister of Overseas Affairs, in the course of the regime of former president, Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
Previous to that, he was Liberia’s Ambassador to Belgium and the Benelux nations and performed a pivotal position in the course of the Interim Authorities of Nationwide Unity(IGNU), headed by the late, Dr. Amos C. Sawyer.
A few of his college mates from CWA referred to him as “Grego”, a brief type for his final title.
Alphonso Toweh
Has been within the career for over twenty years. He has labored for a lot of worldwide media shops together with: West Africa Journal, Africa Week Journal, African Observer and did occasional reporting for CNN, BBC World Service, Sunday Instances, NPR, Radio Deutchewells, Radio Netherlands. He’s the present correspondent for Reuters
He holds first MA with honors in Worldwide Relations and a candidate for second grasp in Worldwide Peace research and Battle Decision from the College of Liberia.
