Journal 2/12/1982
P1 Budget contains $10.4m for Marshalls
The Marshalls will be about $10.4 million from President Reagan’s $757.6 billion 1983 budget, according to Pacific Daily News. The Marshalls figure is about six percent above that for 1982.
P1 Zeder sailing through hearings
US Compact negotiator Fred Zeder sailed through confirmation hearings by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “I am confident I shall be the last representative any president will need to appoint,” he said.
P2 Kabua moves to new office
President Kabua moved into his new lagoon side office in the Cabinet office building February 11. The public service already moved into the old building following last summer’s fire, which destroyed the downtown administration building.
P4 Among Other Things
Ebeye is a small place with large problems. Problems of over-population, bad roads, water shortages, power outages, a non-working sewer system and plumbing which led to contaminated drinking water are among the obvious ones. Ebeye is also dirty besides. The whole place needs to be painted and planted with trees. —Akio Heine
Journal 2/22/1991
P1 MAKO, Inc. pours in new record
The race is still on and MAKO could be the winner with their motto “Korean style, very fast.” When the Journal brought MAKO’s hotel project to readers last June, there was some interest around town about the first elevator.Whose would it be? Nauru’s Gateway, the Joint Venture’s capital building, or MAKO’s new hotel. But when MAKO’s Yong Ji stopped his five-story hotel project tomato the six-story office block on the old runway, some people scratched him from the race, saying he was too far behind. But the way this Korean tycoon-typhoon fires up energy, anything can happen. And right now his office block is racing toward a July finish. MAKO, PII and MWSC employees teamed up to pour the longest continuous concrete pour in Marshall Islands history. The event took 23 hours…and was said to be “without parallel.”
P6 Businesses unhappy with tax
Businessmen are reluctant to go on record but taxes is a subject they love to talk about. The 1989 net income tax structure for businessmen is bad, they say. The enormous amount of paperwork discourages businesses from opening, especially local businesses, said those interviewed.
P11 Capital can be repaired
Construction on the capital building will begin again in April. Special equipment will be brought in which will enable workers to install pilings inside the building that will go deep under the foundation.
Journal 2/18/2011
P3 Leprosy ‘epidemic’ on outer islands
The Marshall Islands is facing an explosion of leprosy in remote outer islands. According to the Ministry of Health’s latest report to the US government, 10 outer islands have multiple cases of leprosy. No statistics are provided for cases in Majuro, but the report for October-December 2010 notes there are two new cases of leprosy identified on Kwajalein Atoll.