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Friday, June 20, 2008
| Tom Kijiner new chair of the MIDB Roving Ambassador Tom Kijiner has been named new chairman of the Marshall Islands Development Board of directors. The Cabinet made the appointment earlier this month, as well as revamping the membership of the government bank’s board. Kijiner is a former long-time Cabinet minister who represented Likiep in the Nitijela until 2004. Farewell to Around Town's founder The man who coined the term “Around Town” and made famous a “likatu and lakatu” photo section in this newspaper died in Majuro this week. Grant Gordon died at Majuro Hospital on Tuesday afternoon this week after an extended battle with emphysema. MWSC owes MEC $1m Majuro Water and Sewer Company owes MEC about $1 million in unpaid electric bills. The company, which comes under the MEC board, recently paid off a large debt to MISSA. “We can’t disconnect MWSC,” said MEC General Manager Billy Roberts. “It provides sewer services 24 hours a day, seven days a week.” The latest buzz on Pan Pacific The US tuna company Bumble Bee conducted an inspection of Pan Pacific Food’s loining plant this week. The “audit” of the Majuro fish processing plant was to finish Wednesday this week. Bumble Bee is expected to be a major buyer of tuna processed by Pan Pacific Food’s factory in Majuro. Solo teen sailor headed for Majuro Majuro is the planned first stop in a world record-breaking attempt being made by 16-year-old Zac Sunderland from Los Angeles. Sunderland, who wants to be the youngest person to ever sail solo around the world, left LA earlier this week on his 36-foot yacht Intrepid. |
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Woja: N 07 degrees 04.111
E 171 degrees 05.688
Airport: N 07 degrees 01.690
E 171 degrees 14.690
Bridge: N 07 degrees 02.744
E 171 degrees 21.147.
By GIFF JOHNSON
The RMI Disaster Committee on Monday approved a recommendation to Cabinet that it declare a national state of emergency because of an impending crisis in the energy sector. The Cabinet was expected to meet on the recommendation Wednesday or Thursday. The state of emergency recommendation is based on Majuro and Ebeye’s utility companies being on the verge of financial collapse, and without a big injection of funding are expected to suffer an $18 million shortfall this year. A nine-page report issued late last week by the MEC board of directors to government presents a sobering view of the financial problems facing the Marshalls Energy Company and Kwajalein Atoll Joint Utilities Resources (KAJUR) as a result of the continuing rise in fuel prices globally. The report also says that MEC/KAJUR are facing a July 10 deadline for payment of $6.5 million for the fuel delivered earlier this month from SK Networks.
The RMI Disaster Committee on Monday approved a recommendation to Cabinet that it declare a national state of emergency because of an impending crisis in the energy sector. The Cabinet was expected to meet on the recommendation Wednesday or Thursday. The state of emergency recommendation is based on Majuro and Ebeye’s utility companies being on the verge of financial collapse, and without a big injection of funding are expected to suffer an $18 million shortfall this year. A nine-page report issued late last week by the MEC board of directors to government presents a sobering view of the financial problems facing the Marshalls Energy Company and Kwajalein Atoll Joint Utilities Resources (KAJUR) as a result of the continuing rise in fuel prices globally. The report also says that MEC/KAJUR are facing a July 10 deadline for payment of $6.5 million for the fuel delivered earlier this month from SK Networks.
An outer island health assistant sharply criticized recent shipping service to the northern Ratak islands, saying it appeared that a chicken quarter leg delivery to Mejit was more important than people getting safely to other islands on the Aemman. But Shipping Corporation manager Wally Milne said the schedule was made and publicized before the ship left and, with the exception of a stop at Wotje to drop off human remains, Aemman was to go straight from Majuro to Mejit. Milne said he also was given a letter from the Ministry of Education saying that the Shipping Corporation was not supposed to bring people to Wotje for the Northern Islands High School graduation but was responsible only to deliver students and others back to their home islands after the June 3 Northern Islands High School graduation. But Aerok, Maloelap health assistant Arjen Anni complained to the Journal saying it was the first time that he had seen such a ship schedule dating back to the Trust Territory time. He was amazed to see the captain refuse to go into Aur Atoll, normally the first stop on the trip north. Instead, he said, at 3 am the vessel let people and cargo get off on the ocean side of Aur into small boats from the atoll. “This was very dangerous,” he said.
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