Biggest news since Bravo

Biggest news since Bravo

Journal 4/24/1987 P18 Youth OptionsOver a dozen young boys are taking a brush up course in elementary English and math at the Private Industry Council/Marshalls Community Action Agency Youth Options Center in Uliga. After school in the morning, the boys are learning the fine art of net mending from instructor Ring Nook. This is just […]

USP makes students happy

USP makes students happy

EVE BURNS An exciting and new development took place at University of the South Pacific earlier this month — blessing ceremony in celebration of the first ever student lounge. Witnessing the ceremony were USP alumni, staff, students, National Training Council Director Julius Lucky and Ministry of Education representatives. The idea for a student lounge came […]

Athletes join Games teams

Athletes join Games teams

Many Marshall Islands Micronesian Games teams will receive a boost from talented Marshallese athletes living in America. Multiple sports are expected to see incoming athletes join their teams.The Micronesian Games Organizing Committee “will cover most of expenses for these athletes (i.e. travel and transit accommodation, including stipend),” said MGOC Co-Chair and Minister Tony Muller. “Once […]

Taxis criticized for rate hike

Taxis criticized for rate hike

WILMER JOEL The Majuro Taxi Drivers Association was accused last week by EPPSO director Fred deBrum of violating the Retail Price Monitoring Act of 1992 by increasing taxi fares over the 25 percent price baseline. “What the taxi drivers did, they instantly went up to 30 some percent,” said deBrum. “They told me the reason […]

Hilda checks out hospital

Hilda checks out hospital

HILARY HOSIA President Hilda Heine led a high-level visit to the Ministry of Heath and Human Services last Friday. The visit included a tour of the facility with the hospital leadership team followed by a program at the Wellness Center to recognize female outer islands health workers and recent graduates from Fiji National University. President […]

Cleaning up Enewetak $

Cleaning up Enewetak $

Journal 4/17/1987 P3 Best in the westMajuro’s weather station men are the best in the west. The Pacific region director for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Richard Hagemeyer presented them with the “Surface Observatory of the Year” award at a ceremony last week at the Chief Secretary’s office. Hagemeyer presented a plaque to weather […]

CMI opens its doors

CMI opens its doors

WILMER JOEL High school students were invited to an open house at the College of the Marshall Islands last Tuesday to kick off the College of the Marshall Islands’ anniversary month. CMI President Dr. Elizabeth Switaj told the Journal that one of the main purposes of the event is “to reach out to high school […]

MicSem finds home in Yap

MicSem finds home in Yap

Tens of thousands of dollars are headed to Yap to re-open the Micronesian Seminar Library, now situated on the campus of Yap Catholic High School.Over four decades, Micronesian Seminar built an internationally recognized library of over 120,000 documents, photos and recordings. But a dozen years ago, the Pohnpei-based organization, better known as MicSem, was shut […]

Fishermen rescued by Majuro vessel

Fishermen rescued by Majuro vessel

GIFF JOHNSON Twenty-two fishermen and one fisheries observer were rescued Sunday morning April 14 as their vessel was sinking in the South Pacific. The FV Marielle, a purse seine fishing vessel owned by the Caroline Fisheries Corporation in Micronesia, put out a distress signal Saturday night after one of its engines caught fire and the […]

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