Journal 4/12/1983
P1 New 177: $150m up front
While President Amata Kabua went to Honolulu last month to present an independence proposal to the United States what resulted was a working draft of a new agreement on nuclear testing claims and potentially new life for the Compact of Free Association. The key change is that the US will pay the entire $150 million proposed in the previous 177 subsidiary agreement in the first year. The money would be invested in US securities and at current interest rates of 10-13 parent, each of the groups would be paid at least as much as the highest previous US offer using only the interest in the first 10 years.
P7 Ebb & Flow
Visitors in town: Anthropologist Leonard Mason; Pacific writer Stuart Inder, former editor of Pacific Islands Monthly; and Bob Miller, an executive with United Press International…There is a special flight to Kili tomorrow to take medicine for an outbreak of flu…Talk of AMI buying Twin Otters has prompted old timers to remind us of an earlier proposal by Global Associates to practically give Otters to AMI.
Journal 4/17/1992
P1 NTA first with US phone loan
Ground was broken last Thursday at Delap near the Majuro Comsat station for the National Telecommunication Authority’s new headquarters that is being constructed by PII/McConnell Dowell.
P5 AMI adds second Dornier
The second Air Marshall Islands Dornier arrived from Germany and was christened Monday at Majuro airport.
P15 RMI-Rongelap agreement launches radiation study
An agreement between the Marshall Islands government and Rongelap leaders was signed this week, paving the way for the beginning of radiation studies as part of the resettlement project funded by the US Congress. The studies have three main objectives: To determinate extent of radiation contamination on the southern islands in Rongelap; to decide the expected radiation does that people will receive if they eat a diet of 100 percent local food collected from southern islands; and to estimate the possibility of and risks to residents, especially children, of ingesting radioactive plutonium.
Journal 4/20/2012
P8 Migration keeps population static
The theme that runs throughout the RMI government 2011 national census summary report is the impact of out-migration of Marshall Islanders. “…Due to massive out-migration in recent years, it is estimated that around 11,000 Marshallese have left the country (between 1999 and 2011),” said Minister in Assistance Tony deBrum when he recently transmitted the summary report to Speaker Donald Capelle. As a result the population grew by only 2,318 people to 53,158.
P14 Lice ‘r nice
If you want to point out a major difference between Ribelli women and RiMajol kora, you don’t have to go beyond the the head of the matter, and what a difference. A key function of Marshallese women is ‘akit’. Not cooking. Not washing clothes. Not even bingo. Yep, akit: Squatting behind a friend or female relation, digging hardened thumb nails energetically into the skull after lining up an egg-popping lice bug.That’s entertainment, entertainment even better than you get out of the Entertainment Center cause akit entertainment is free.
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