GIFF JOHNSON The Marshall Islands government was forced last month to take out a bank loan to meet a $1.2 million loan payment to the US Rural Utilities Service for the National Telecommunications Authority. Despite it being early in the new fiscal year, a cash flow shortage prevented the Ministry of Finance from making the […]
HILARY HOSIA If you’d personify the number of years Asmon Langidrik, Jr. spent as a teacher in the Ministry of Education, Asmon would’ve been a 13-year old teen. The beloved special education teacher died last Wednesday, three hours after he reportedly left Majuro Middle School due to what his coworkers said was chest pain. He […]
While dozens of RMI representatives were dispatched to Paris for the two-week climate summit, the RMI’s Senior Climate Change Advisor is not among them. Oddly, too, Dr. Riyad Mucadam, the RMI’s senior climate advisor, was the only RMI government representative sent to attend the High Level Support Mechanism Meeting last month in Apia, Samoa where […]
HILARY HOSIA The long-awaited Dornier 228 — purchased over a year ago by the RMI government from a Nepal airline — landed smoothly at the Amata Kabua International Airport Tuesday evening following a three-day-two-night journey from the Philippines. Air Marshall Islands’ Captains Vili Lomaloma and Iosabata Namakin and engineers Ishoda Allen and Dan Fitzpatrick flew […]
It took Electoral Administration staff 20 hours of non-stop work from Tuesday morning to early Wednesday to sort, review and approve or reject all incoming postal ballots. The tabulation of postal ballots was scheduled to begin about 5pm Wednesday at the ICC in Majuro. Chief Electoral Officer Robson Almen said Electoral tabulators would begin by […]
The Marshall Islands Electoral Administration released the final, unofficial domestic vote results today, December 1, 2015 (click the link below). This morning, CEO Robson Almen and Electoral Administration officials opened postal absentee ballot boxes to begin the process of checking the incoming affidavits to ensure they meet voting requirements before the ballots were separated from […]
In a landmark ruling, the RMI Supreme Court upheld a High Court ruling that land created by government landfill on submerged areas below the high water mark are owned by the government. The order was issued last week in the case brought by the late Jurelang Zedkaia and Tolbwij Toring against the Marshalls Energy Company […]
GIFF JOHNSON This month, Majuro has been treated to a visit by an all-star music cast of Les “Yungstar” Anjolok, Yasta “Yastamon” Bolkeim and Clanny “Flavah C” Glanry — all of them famous in their own right and combined, a musical powerhouse. What stands out when talking to the three about their musical interests and […]
HILARY HOSIA The RMI-USP Joint Education Program in Majuro graduated 17 students during its 19th award ceremony at the Marshall Islands Resort’s Melele Room Tuesday night. The venue was packed beyond comparison with most of the audience standing in the back through the 45-minute event. But with the lively Pacific island dance performances in between […]
Kwajalein Atoll Development Authority (KADA) Executive Director Carl Hacker provided an update this week about ongoing work to improve conditions for the community on Ebeye and nearby islands. Among key developments: • Relocation of families for the Ebeye Elementary School Project. For the project to proceed, there is a need to relocate three families. Majuro […]
