Journal 4/8/1983
P1 President returns
President Amata Kabua arrived April 6 from Honolulu where he went to present to the United States the proposed treaty —Mutual Security between the US and the Marshall Islands. Government dignitaries, an honor guard and many other people were at the terminal to greet the president. Attorney General Carl Ingram accompanied Kabua to Honolulu. In connection with Irooj Joba Kabua’s death, the President of Nauru Hammer deRoburt and various government officials came on Air Nauru just a few minutes before Air Micronesia.
P2 Among other things
The “kokan” have moved to the new new dock. The ladies of the nights are now using as shelter two empty containers. They sleep in them, eat in them — doing everything in them. One reason for this new move has to do with the fact that one of their base of operations, the Blue Pacific, has been closed down. The other reason is they are not allowed to go on the ships anymore. —Akio Heine
P4 Katsuobushi factory under construction
The day when you can sit down and munch on a real katsuobushi or smoked-dried bonita is sooner than you know. The Nankatsu Corporation katsuobushi factory now being built at Long Island is expected to be finished by the end of April.
P4 New Head Start
The Head Start program will now be run by a separate corporation organized for that purpose, according to Rick Bush, executive director of the Marshalls Community Action Agency, which used to run the program for pre-school children. Head Start employees will be transferred from MCAA to the Marshalls Head Start Program, Inc.
Journal 4/10/1992
P4 An afternoon at Majuro hospital
Some people have the afternoon hospital clinic system down to a “t”. To be seen by a doctor, one has to register at the front desk, pay a $2 fee, and get a number. What a lot of smart people do to beat the crush at 1pm when the clinic opens is to go in the morning when no one is around and register, then go home until it’s time for the clinic. We can attest to this because we arrived the other day at 1:05pm and were given number 43. That number you’re given on a tiny piece of paper about the size of your thumbnail. Lose it or forget it and you’re history. Nurses use it to call you through each stage of the checks. We have never noticed that people here are concerned with time. But at the hospital clinic, it’s a different story. As the clinic progresses and patients move (slowly) from one station to another, we notice that many keep casting glances at their wrists. And then there was the older fellow who had everyone chuckling. The clinic was packed with patients, standing room only, when in swaggers this gent with a boom box playing rap music. That brought the house down. It was playing loud enough that he eventually had to turn it off because the patients couldn’t hear their doctors calling their names.
Journal 4/13/2012
P2 Nitijela quotes
“He (Senator Kenneth Kedi) knows the answers to all the questions he’s asking me. Maybe he’s just testing me to see if I know my job.” —T&C Minister Rien Morris. “We are like third world citizens on our own lands…isn’t it enough that they tested nuclear bombs on us?” —Kwajalein Senator/Irooj Mike Kabua on how Marshallese are treated by the Americans at USAKA.
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