Foreign Minister Kitlang Kabua toured the US Coast Guard ship Frederick Hatch alongside US Embassy Charge Jeremiah Knight, Ambassador Junior Aini, Acting Transportation Secretary Waylon Muller, and US Embassy staff. The US and RMI have an agreement for Maritime Surveillance and Interdiction Activities which allows RMI law enforcement officials to embark as “shipriders” aboard US […]
GIFF JOHNSON The boat used by American paralympian Angela Madsen on her ill-fated attempt in mid-2020 to paddle solo from California to Hawaii washed up on a remote atoll in the Marshall Islands late last month. The specially designed boat with her name and “ROWOFLIFE” painted on the hull, washed up on Mili Atoll in […]
The Marshall Islands government filed both criminal and civil prosecutions of the China-based owners and operators of a fish supply ship that ran aground at Taka Atoll over a year ago. The lawsuits seek financial damages from the companies for the vessel’s grounding and release of thousands of tons of oil and diesel. Both lawsuits […]
United States Ambassador to Marshall Islands Karen Stewart awarded the US Coast Guard’s Meritorious Public Service Award to the captain and crew of FV Lomalo last week at the Marshall Islands Resort for a rescue mission in 2015 that saved 36 fishermen from FV Glory Pacific No. 8 north of American Samoa. Pan Pacific Foods […]
Jefferson Bobo, a young man from the island of Ebeye, is thriving in his new career in the US Navy, which follows a couple years of working at the Ministry of Public Works after he became the first Marshall Islander to graduate from the US Coast Guard Academy, with a degree in engineering. After departing […]
