The Marshall Islands is gaining momentum toward the establishment of a National Water Safety Plan following a half-day seminar on water safety at the Marshall Islands Resort last Thursday. The seminar invited government officials, members from the private sector and State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) that sell and provide water to the community. The program was […]
Wesley Simina of Chuuk State is the new president of the Federated States of Micronesia. He was elected by the FSM Congress at its first meeting last week following the national election in March. Joining him in the executive branch is Vice President Aren Palik of Kosrae, who continues on from a term started two […]
Journal 5/16/1986 P1 Wife and child abuse up in Marshalls? A young Marshallese women was severely beaten at home by her husband two weeks ago. Several days later, she was dead of head injuries she received from the beating. This incident once again brings to the forefront questions about wife and child abuse in the […]
Yukiko Muller is expected to be the second Marshallese woman to complete a Ph.D., after former President Hilda Heine, who was the first. She is currently studying in Japan in a doctoral program in Interdisciplinary Intelligent Systems Engineering at the Graduate School of Engineering and Science, University of the Ryukyus. She studied computer science in […]
High school students engaged in the first-ever moot court competition where they were exposed to courtroom debate organized by the Public School System and the Marshall Islands Law Society at the International Conference Center at the end of April. The schools had only three days of preparation for the moot competition after a briefing about […]
GIFF JOHNSON The first demonstration in Majuro in many years happened Monday at the Kili-Bikini-Ejit Town Hall in Uliga. All demonstrations in the Marshall Islands, a country whose people are noted for “speaking under the waves,” are unprecedented in some ways. They are also relatively few and far between. Hospital staff demonstrated and then went […]
WILMER JOEL Majuro’s first-ever arm wrestling competition, the brainchild of Thomas Forns and the Majuro Arm Wrestling Association, became reality last weekend at Delap Park. The event featured numerous armwrestling competitors around the island for six divisions. Power 103.5 DJ Yastamon co-hosted the competition with Thomas who was also refereeing. There was a goodwill matchup […]
Journal 5/8/1987 P1 RepMar inks China pact RepMar signed it first business pact with the People’s Republic of China last Thursday before a large gathering of government and business leaders. The new agreement sets up the Joint Investment Corporation of the Marshall Islands, a joint venture between Marshall Islands Development Authority and Macao Zhuhai Development […]
This here is the iron pot. The kitchen is its home as it doesn’t travel a lot. But for this particular night it has a special spot, To amplify the screams of the cheering lot. Because of this particular iron pot, Assumption Saints made the number one spot. — Hilary Hosia reporting on Assumption High […]
The scene at Ebeye Public Elementary School last Friday was typical of any other day of the week: The school’s kindergarten students were in their classroom and ready for action around 8am. Their classroom activity went until 10am, when the students and their teachers took their usual recess break. Moments after leaving their classroom, most […]
