Journal 11/5/1976
P9 500 Nauruans to celebrate new Kusaie status About 500 natives of Nauru, the phosphate-rich Pacific island state, will travel to Kusaie early next year to help the Kusaiens celebrate their transition to full district status. Acting High Commissioner Peter Coleman said Nauru Shipping Lines will have two large vessels for the trip. “The plan is to airlift via Nauru Airlines people to Ponape and ships will immediately carry them to Kusaie to ensure no strains to Ponape,” Coleman said.
Journal 11/8/1991
P11 Facilities consultant Lesli Oshiro, soil consultant from Hawaii, stands at the location for the new telephone communications building to be constructed near the satellite antenna dish. He wonders what keeps happening to all the flags he puts out to mark the building site.
P28 2 new Dorniers for AMI AMI will soon be receiving two new Dornier airplanes from Germany. According to AMI’s Don Brugman, the original Doriners that AMI purchased had an ongoing corrosion problem that was costing the airline a substantial amount of money in maintenance. The old Dorniers will be traded in and the new will be arriving in another two to three weeks.
P18 Shipping and sliding One of the most positive developments coming out of the government’s shipping crisis of the late 1990s was and is the emergence of a credible private sector-run shipping service for the outer islands. In the early days of American rule after World War II, such private service existed. It was all but extinguished by the Trust Territory. The TT model was adopted by the Marshall Islands government. It wasn’t until the late 1990s that the government’s chronic lack of maintenance combined with a shrinking budget to totally torpedo outer island shipping services. But every dark cloud has a silver lining. So local businesses started filling the government void by purchasing big and small ships to service outer islands. In the past year, the majority of copra coming to Tobolar has been delivered by privately run boats.
Journal 11/10/2000
P1 RMI rating drops Outspoken Majuro Senator Alik Alik told the Journal this week he gives Kessai Note’s government a B+ after nearly a year in office. The government’s performance has declined from earlier in the year, when Alik said he marked it as an “A”.
P3 Majuro’s triplets star on the Web In July 1999, it was touch and go whether one of the triplets born at Majuro hospital was going to make it. Thanks to round-the-clock attention by hospital staff, the triplets are still a trio. The group — Turner, Tucson and Trevor — is now living in the United States, having been adopted by Americans Kathy and Todd deShon. The couple recently posted their family photo to an Internet group of families that have adopted Marshallese children. The babies, who are the first known triplets to be born at Majuro hospital, were adopted last year.
P4 Great day for our youth Youth to Youth in Health held a grand opening last Wednesday for its new clinic and office, the first phase of a larger youth center development in Uliga. President Kessai Note and a number of Cabinet ministers and senators, as well as senior Ministry of Health officials, were on hand for the event.
P4 Do not let spiders web you Mark Twain was once the editor of a small town newspaper. He received a letter from an old subscriber who had found a spider in his paper and wanted to know whether it was a sign of good or bad luck. Mark Twain replied: “Dear old subscriber, finding a spider in your newspaper was neither good nor bad luck for you. The spider was merely looking over the paper to see which merchant is not advertising, he then can go to that store, spin a web across the door, and lead a life of undisturbed peace forever afterwards.”
P18 Shipping and sliding One of the most positive developments coming out of the government’s shipping crisis of the late 1990s was and is the emergence of a credible private sector-run shipping service for the outer islands. In the early days of American rule after World War II, such private service existed. It was all but extinguished by the Trust Territory. The TT model was adopted by the Marshall Islands government. It wasn’t until the late 1990s that the government’s chronic lack of maintenance combined with a shrinking budget to totally torpedo outer island shipping services. But every dark cloud has a silver lining. So local businesses started filling the government void by purchasing big and small ships to service outer islands. In the past year, the majority of copra coming to Tobolar has been delivered by privately run boats.