In fewer than 10 days, the airport terminal parking lot will be closed until further notice. The RMI Ports Authority made the announcement this week in a post of social media. The closure goes into effect on March 15. “The reason for the parking lot closer is to allow for the commencement of construction activities […]
Power consumers money will now buy less each time they purchase cash power, following MEC’s third tariff increase over the past 18 months. The latest rate hike went into effect on February 9. It was not announced in a public way other than a post on the MEC website. While the company puts out media […]
Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine called Monday’s Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day “a sacred space for remembrance – a space where we pause to reflect upon the nuclear testing years from 1946 to 1958, and a space to rekindle our memory of those who had endured and suffered the consequences of 12 turbulent years that have […]
Japan Ambassador Hirohisa Soma and International Organization for Migration office head Hilary Vanderwey signed an agreement earlier this week that sets in motion a two-year plan to strengthen Majuro and Wotje local food systems. The project, supported by Japan and to be implemented by IOM in collaboration with the Ministries of Education and Natural Resources […]
Fourteen teams entered Saturday’s Biggest Qualifying Billfish Fishing Tournament, but the billfish went into hiding in the deep blue ocean with only two marlin being caught and released by Team Lotujo captained by Danny Paul. This results in the Jakie Jacob Memorial or Majuro Day Biggest Fish being held over to the next derby and […]
The second Enra quarterly distribution has reportedly been pushed back to the end of March — both to complete the registration process for several thousand new applicants and to vet them for actual residence in the RMI. As the Enra — or universal basic income program — is only for citizens living in RMI, a […]
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 […]
