ISAAC MARTY Jabat Victor Olea Taneti, six pounds and two ounces, and Sam Lojeto Joiji, six pounds and four ounces, are the 2016 New Year’s Day babies. Both are a blessing to their families, but Jabat’s birth was also a blessing in itself as it took place without a nurse. Jabat’s unexpected arrival was a […]
Nauru Airlines and Solomon Airlines have joined forces to promote new passenger and cargo links to the north Pacific. Effective this Friday, Nauru Airlines northbound flights operating via Honiara every Friday will allow travelers seamless connections on “same plane” services through to Nauru, Tarawa, Majuro, Kosrae, Pohnpei and Chuuk. Southbound flights operating every Sunday will […]
Majuro-based private schools have scored the highest marks on CMI’s annual placement tests, according to data contained in the college’s Fact Book 2015. In last year’s English placement test, Assumption High School’s 16 students taking the test had the highest percentage — 31 percent — achieving credit level test stores. Majuro Coop School was at […]
The level of violence against women in the Pacific is double the rate in the rest of the world, which is the sign that Pacific societies need to change social norms in order for development to progress, said a United Nations official. Speaking to Radio New Zealand International, UN Women’s Deputy Representative for Fiji, Nicolas […]
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CAROLINE YACOE Woven mats, hats, purses, baskets, fans, wall hangings and jewelry from the Marshall Islands, Hawaii, French Polynesia, Nauru, Guam and Kiribati festively adorned the new space at Long Island Conference Center now part of the University of the South Pacific campus in Majuro. As the third such gathering of Pacific weavers it demonstrated […]
HILARY HOSIA Marshall Islands Acting President David Kabua presided over the christening of the new oxygen generator at Leiroj Atama Zedkaia Hospital in Majuro last Friday. The $239,000 equipment can produce 50 oxygen tanks on a daily basis, which engineers at the biomedical department within the ministry said will save the hospital thousands of dollars. […]
The Assumption High School Band will be stepping out in style this Saturday as they take part in the annual Chamber of Commerce Christmas Parade. The band has grown substantially over the last year thanks in part to the enthusiasm of band leader Ashley Wright. As well as performing at Assumption talent evenings, the band […]
HILARY HOSIA If you’d personify the number of years Asmon Langidrik, Jr. spent as a teacher in the Ministry of Education, Asmon would’ve been a 13-year old teen. The beloved special education teacher died last Wednesday, three hours after he reportedly left Majuro Middle School due to what his coworkers said was chest pain. He […]
While dozens of RMI representatives were dispatched to Paris for the two-week climate summit, the RMI’s Senior Climate Change Advisor is not among them. Oddly, too, Dr. Riyad Mucadam, the RMI’s senior climate advisor, was the only RMI government representative sent to attend the High Level Support Mechanism Meeting last month in Apia, Samoa where […]