Journal 3/1/1983
P1 Kwaj agreement signed
The Kwajalein people may finally reap the benefits of letting the Kwajalein Missile Range use their land for fiscal years 1983 through 1985. A summer of officiation of the land, numerous lawsuits against the Defense Department in support of the occupation, a month of negotiations in Washington, and four months of haggling on dividing up the payments finally culminated in a 6pm signing in the office of the Clerk of Courts. The first two payments for FY1983 — a sum of $3,750,000 — could by telegraphic bank transfer reach the RepMar receiving account in Hawaii very quickly. However, the Army reportedly wants physical possession of the signed documents before releasing the money.
P1 Water almost gone
There are about 300,000 gallons of water left in the government reservoirs and Public Works working around the clock digging wells, according to Noel Bigler, secretary of Public Work. Contact Public Works if you want a well dug for no charge.
Journal 2/28/1992
P1 Reward for good job
Private schools in the Marshall Islands will soon be receiving their first government funding to build classrooms and other school facilities, following a meeting earlier this month between Ministry of Education officials and private school principals. The private schools will divide $500,00 for 1992.
P3 Hilda moves to Education
The Ministry of Education has a new secretary: Hilda Heine-Jetñil. Education Minster Phillip Muller said she is “most familiar with what we are doing.” Until last Friday, she was president of the College of the Marshall Islands.
P4 What a complaint
We’ve heard about complaints when the electricity goes off, but when it goes on? Last Thursday’s planned all-day outage ran so smoothly that the electricity came back on at 1:30pm, three-and-a-half-hours early. MEC staff were startled to get phone calls from people demanding to know why the power was back on early when MEC had said it wouldn’t come on until 5pm. MEC GM Billy Roberts said the complaints were apparently from small store owners who may have sent their employees home for the day when they heard the outage would run to 5pm. You can’t win in Majuro.
P5 The Prez
Kirt Pinho is MBC’s new president, elected during their annual meeting last month. Billy Roberts is the VP, Bill Graham, last year’s president, is secretary, and John Paul Jones was unanimously reappointed as treasurer, a position, the newsletter observed, “he has held since time began.” Mike Trevor was once again named the official weigh master and Mike Case was handed a new position as tournament coordinator.
P10 RMI should not give money to local governments
The Auditor General’s latest report to Nitijela urges that the government stop giving money to local governments, except Kwajalein and Majuro, because the financial recordkeeping and accounting is so poor.
Journal 3/2/2012
P3 Auditor finds 7 more fraud cases
The Auditor General’s office is devoting more than half of its staff to the ongoing investigation of fraud and theft involving RMI government funds, and it is paying off. Auditor General Junior Patrick said the initial investigation “led to the discovery of over $500,000 in government spending being linked to fraud.”
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