HILARY HOSIA Miracle workers in the form of Canvasback’s visiting OBGYN team screened close to 600 women at Majuro hospital during their recent two-week visit. The number of patients seen, pap tests conducted, cancers identified and surgeries performed underlined the demand for women’s health services in the Marshall Islands. The team identified 13 cancers and […]
Palau received close to half a million dollars earlier this month from an investment fund established 10 years ago to support conservation work in US-affiliated islands. The Micronesian Challenge Endowment Fund will also be available to support protected areas in the Marshall Islands and Federated States of Micronesia once these nations adopt required legislation and […]
GIFF JOHNSON Award winning public school Principal Baldwin Robert is taking up a new challenge: overseeing a multi-school improvement program for elementary and middle schools in Majuro and Ebeye. After extended stints as principal of Delap and Rita elementary schools, he is now the Project Implementation Unit Director for the Improving the Quality of Basic […]
Journal 2/20/1981 P1 Wave threat subsides Fear of another ‘big wave’ like the ones that hit the DUD area of Majuro in 1979 swept over the Marshalls starting Saturday February 14. Sunday February 15 waves of about 12 feet hit Utrik and Mejit inflicting minimal damage as residents of Majuro and other atolls made preparations […]
GIFF JOHNSON Florence Edwards, MIMRA’s long-time Coastal Division Chief, is now the fisheries department’s Deputy Director, Coastal. She joins Sam Lanwi, Jr., who is Deputy Director, Oceanic, in the two deputy positions at Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority. Edwards’ elevation to the deputy director position fills a key post at MIMRA. MIMRA Director Glen Joseph […]
Bravo fallout survivor Lemeyo Abon died this week after collapsing and going into a coma on February 5. One of the few remaining Rongelap people alive who experienced the “snowstorm” of radioactive fallout from the 1954 Bravo test, she was in the Majuro hospital Intensive Care Unit until her death early Monday morning. “Lemeyo was full of […]
Journal 2/13/1981 P1 Ebeye high blood hunt The high blood hunt in the Marshalls continued as Medex Arata Nathan and Health Planning intern Mike Mueller traveled to Kwajalein to implement hypertension screening on Ebeye. They spent a week on Ebeye training Public Health Field Supervisor Sulikau Yoshikawa and practical nurse Grace Balos Joram. P10 US […]
The first National Risk Assessment workshop for the Marshall Islands held last month in Majuro was a key step for the RMI government to identify money laundering and terrorist financing threats to the nation, as well as beginning development of an action plan to address the risks. The three-day workshop held at the ICC in […]
HILARY HOSIA Patrol vessels Teanoai from the Republic of Kiribati and Lomor from Marshall Islands conducted joint operations and open ocean exercises last week following Teanoai’s arrival in Majuro Thursday. Locals from the Kiribati community and host seafarers serenaded Teanoai’s 19-man crew upon arrival at the Sea Patrol headquarters in Delap. Teanoai’s Captain Ruka Ratieta […]
HILARY HOSIA The spectacle created by Ailuk winning canoe WOLA-I WOLA-O as it glided through the finish line toward a beach full of screaming fans could be taken like those Hollywood happy endings, where people can’t keep their eye off a canoe — dashing through the waves with its outrigger suspended in the air while […]
