Journal 4/11/1975 P13 Ponape Legislature approves salaries Ponape District Legislature passed a bill last week setting salaries for the lawmakers annually at $6,000 and $7,000 for the speaker. While legislature observers feel the bill has a good chance of being accepted by Distad Leo Falcam, Falcam’s number two man Bermin Weilbacher said the chances of […]
HILARY HOSIA It looked like a scene for a premiere showing of a new Star Wars film. This was Monday morning at the Attorney General’s office, which looked like the situation in big countries where people camp out overnight to see the premiere showing of a film, a famous music band of the latest Star […]
The mid-year Joint Economic Management and Financial Accountability Committee (JEMFAC) will meet in Majuro this Friday to review US grant funding in preparation for the annual JEMFAC meeting that usually is held in August and approves annual grant funding from the US. Leading the US delegation will be Nikolao Pula, director of the Interior Department’s […]
HILARY HOSIA Turning down a high school trip to Pohnpei in the Federated States of Micronesia is not something eight teens from Ebeye’s Seventh Day Adventist senior class took well. Or so they thought. Traditionally, SDA seniors travel to the FSM capital city as a right of passage before graduation. However, slight changes in their […]
ISAAC MARTY The US Department of Agriculture is stepping in to help solve a two-decade old problem in the capital city of Majuro. USDA Area Director Joseph Diego and Majuro Water and Sewer Company (MWSC) General Manager Joseph Batol signed off on a funding agreement Monday in Majuro through which USDA will provide $3 million […]
The Marshall Islands government had the most spending questioned since 2010 by auditors in the FY2014 audit issued to Nitijela last month. Auditors also listed 13 problem areas, 11 of which were reported in previous year audits and not fixed. In 2012, Finance had reduced questioned spending to a record low of $35,857. It doubled […]
Journal 4/16/1976 P9 The bad news This is a short story, being put in the paper at the last minute because what happened just happened a few minute ago: another young Marshallese man has attempted suicide. He was discovered hanging in a washhouse several buildings from where the paper is printed in Majuro. Fortunately he […]
ISAAC MARTY Two new doctors have been hired and are serving in Leroij Atama Zedkaia Memorial Hospital. They are general surgeon Dr. Rodney Catilo and pediatrician Dr. Miliakere Baleilevuka, who are both happy and serving in their respective posts. Only four weeks into her job and Baleilevuka flew on a chartered flight to Wotje to […]
Over $11,000 had been raised as of Tuesday to support victims of cyclone Winston in Fiji by the RMI March for Fiji disaster relief fundraising group on Majuro. The money was accumulated from donations from companies and friends on island, a Curry Night at the Marshall Islands Resort, and a walkathon from University of the […]
