The latest MIMRA grant to support local marine-related conservation work was issued earlier in February to the Bokanbotin marine protected area in Majuro Atoll. The Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority’s Protected Areas Network office held a signing ceremony with the Bokanbotin MPA owners for the official activation of their $25,000 PAN Fund Award. “We congratulate […]
Journal 3/1/1983 P1 Kwaj agreement signedThe Kwajalein people may finally reap the benefits of letting the Kwajalein Missile Range use their land for fiscal years 1983 through 1985. A summer of officiation of the land, numerous lawsuits against the Defense Department in support of the occupation, a month of negotiations in Washington, and four months […]
Journal 2/18/1983 P1 AMI doing better financially, may fly southGood, tight scheduling of Air Marshall Islands planes has proved to be working as the airline has turned a corner from losing money to now, for the first time, revenues exceed expenses, according to Bill Capelle, marketing manager. Last year, AMI was losing money because of […]
GIFF JOHNSON A modest new photograph book featuring images of the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau has been published by the prolific photojournalist Floyd K. Takeuchi of Honolulu. The book, “7 Degrees North,” is the author’s “love letter to…a time when nature’s beauty defined the day, and to a proud people, who lived pretty much […]
KAREN EARNSHAW Soccer is bubbling along in Majuro with Marshall Islands Soccer Federation officials pleased to let everyone know that Coach Bitamatang Keakea from Kiribati is on island. According to Soccer Federation officials: “He is returning to coach for MISF. He is working in Majuro Middle School and RES coaching soccer as well as SDA school. Alongside this, he […]
The Ministry of Health and Human Services in partnership with Youth to Youth in Health and WUTMI opened the first HPV Screen and Treat services at the youth program clinic in Uliga, marking an important step forward in the Marshall Islands’ goal to eliminate cervical cancer as a public health threat. This launch supports the […]
GIFF JOHNSON The multiple drug busts and discovery of “narco boats” washed into Pacific Islands demonstrates that the Pacific — and in particular the South Pacific — is a highway for drug distribution to Australia and New Zealand. From the beginning of January through February 12, law enforcement officials have confiscated over 14 tons of […]
Journal 2/11/1983 P1 Bank of Guam opening on EbeyeThe Bank of Guam will open its Ebeye branch on February 13. Bank of Guam President Jesus Leon Guerrero is coming to Majuro this weekend and then will go to Ebeye for the opening. P3 Entertainment center to openChuji Chutaro’s new Likrok Restaurant and Entertainment Center isn’t […]
Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner received her PhD in Australia last week, adding to the small number of Marshallese who have achieved this advanced degree. Her PhD is in Pacific Studies from the Australian National University in Canberra. Her mother, President Hilda Heine, was the first Marshallese to achieve the advanced degree when she received her Doctor of […]
KAREN EARNSHAW The evolution of Marshall Islands canoes this week reached yet another milestone thanks to a small group of people “learning from the past for the present and the future.” This philosophy is a motivating factor for Germany’s Henrik Richter-Alten, who first stepped through the doors of Waan Aelon in Majel in January, 2018. […]
