Journal 12/19/1986 P1 Bing’s new Jenrok store openThe Althea Bing Company opened its new store last Saturday in Jenrok village.The beautiful new store is located across from the high school in what used to be the ABC wholesale warehouse. It compliments two other ABC stores in Rita and Delap. The company started operating April 2, […]
WILMER JOEL Gospel Day, one of the Marshall Islands’ most important holidays, was celebrated in the streets with a parade earlier this month. It honors the introduction of Christianity with the arrival of Congregational missionaries aboard the Morning Star vessel in 1857 on Ebon. Throughout the day, a large number of participants from well-known Christian […]
WILMER JOEL The Seventh Day Adventist School signed a memorandum of understanding with the College of the Marshall Islands earlier this month to prepare its students for college-level mathematics. The signing ceremony took place inside the school gymnasium in the presence of faculty, staff, and students. The Public School System, CMI, and REL Pacific addressed […]
The Marshall Islands will not accept a “death sentence” from the global climate summit in Dubai, Minister John Silk said during the high-level government segment of the meeting last weekend. “Despite our best efforts, we are far, far off track” (from meeting the Paris Agreement limit of 1.5 degrees), he said. “We cannot pretend otherwise. […]
GIFF JOHNSON The final unofficial election results were issued by the Electoral Administration Tuesday December 12 this week, confirming that 13 Nitijela seats will change hands. Most postal absentee votes either didn’t arrive in time or were rejected for technical reasons, muting their impact. It appeared that only one Nitijela race — Likiep — was […]
Journal 12/12/1986 P1 RepMar slices big budgetThe biggest budget ever for the Marshall Islands was introduced into the Nitijela last Wednesday, but major program cuts in nearly every ministry forced repeated delays in Nitijela consideration of the final package as ministers battled for every dollar in the $126,136,800 budget. The Compact is providing $41 million, […]
Students from the College of the Marshall Islands and the Upward Bound program presented their semester-long work at a festival held last week at the Uliga campus. The event heralded the end of the fall semester. “The event aims to celebrate student resilience and determination,” said Library Director Verenaisi Bavadra, who made the welcome remarks […]
GIFF JOHNSON Despite former Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine’s resignation late last week from a key global climate advisory committee and early conflicts emerging over the Pacific Islands’ demand for a phase out of fossil fuels and the COP President’s pushback on this central climate issue, Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General Henry Puna said from […]
GIFF JOHNSON The number of postal absentee ballots that made it back to RMI in time to be counted were fewer than 40 percent of the number mailed to Marshallese overseas — demonstrating the problems inherent in this voting system. On top of only 40 percent arriving — 1,469 ballots of 3,752 mailed out — […]
EVE BURNS Four athletes from the RMI weightlifting team returned home last Friday after medaling in the Pacific Games in Solomon Islands. They left home and their families to train and compete for Marshall Islands, won all 10 of RMI’s Pacific Games medals, but returned to be met with no appreciation at the airport except […]
