Liberia - 4th impressions

This is the Peet family's fourth time in Liberia since we first arrived here in early 2005 on the Anastasis. Today I delivered a couple of the ship's non-running vehicles to local garages for repair work, and walked back to the ship past deep garbage, raw sewage, burnt-out buildings, broken pavements and desperate people which we are so used to and take for granted. It seems that little has happened to improve the country in the two months we have been away. My daily google alerts tell me that there is increasing new investment in the country, but so far I can't see it and neither can the 85% underemployed here. Olly