Journal 10/21/1983 P1 Alele receives grantA $30,000 grant has been approved for the Majuro Alele Museum, accordion to Alele Curator Jerry Knight. Projects that are to be funded are a museum on Likiep, reproducing over a hundred picture negatives from Joachim deBrum’s collection, and other deBrum artifacts. Portions of the fund will go for taping […]
EVE BURNS Ajeltake Community Development Association led by Councilman Boaz Lamdrik received funding from the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives matched by Majuro Atoll Local Government as well as 50 wheelbarrows from MALGov. The funds received from Canada Fund for Local Initiatives will be used to empower women for a cleaner shoreline. This will support […]
Japan Ambassador Hirohisa Soma joined the official launch ceremony for the Project for Strengthening Local Food Supply, held at the Marshall Islands High School campus. At the ceremony, Japan’s grant aid of 203 million Japanese yen (approximately $1.3 million) for the project was formalized through the signing of the Exchange of Notes. The launch was […]
GIFF JOHNSON The Marshall Islands goal to ramp up its domestic tuna industry led it to dispatch a team of fisheries agency managers and industry representatives for a study tour to the Republic of Seychelles. At first glance an atoll nation in the western Pacific might seem to have little connection to an island group […]
Bank of Marshall Islands showed its support this week for Marshallese students studying overseas through the United World College program. For the second year in a row, BOMI provided the Marshall Islands UWC National Committee with a donation that assists a student to study in Singapore with an approximately five percent match for her total […]
Journal 10/18/1983 P4 Alfred now director of AssumptionIt is seldom that you hear about someone quitting his or her high paying job to take a less paying and probably less glamorous job. Alfred Capelle, for one, did just that. Last month, Capelle quit his job at the Education Department as Chief of Vocational and Post […]
Despite the regular presence over the past six weeks of up to six tuna transshipment carrier vessels in Majuro lagoon, fish transfers have continued at a slow pace. The September transshipment report shows only eight transshipments, the second time this year that transshipments fell to single digits, according to the monthly report provided by the […]
BRETT SCHELLHASE The 34th Annual All Micronesia Fishing Tournament this past Saturday and Sunday certainly had its ups and downs with Saturday’s extreme weather resulting in only 12 of the 14 registered fishing boats to go out. Team Lae Atoll (Lae Fly) caught marlin on both days, leading off with a 106 pound Pacific blue […]
At its 63rd session last week, the UN Human Rights Council adopted the resolution “Technical assistance and capacity-building to address the human rights implications of the nuclear legacy in the Marshall Islands” by consensus. The resolution was tabled by the Republic of the Marshall Islands on behalf of a core group of Pacific Island States, […]
GIFF JOHNSON For the past two weeks, a lot of the debate at Nitijela has centered on hardships on the outer islands because of shipping woes. Transportation Minister Hilton Kendall acknowledged that of the four operational RMI Shipping Corporation vessels, two needed dry docking and one needed decommissioning — meaning it was ready for retirement. […]
