By Journal on February 29, 2024
AJ Kaneko, Andrew Garrod, DAR Cafe, Dartmouth College, Helen Claire Sievers, Karen Earnshaw, Laurence Underwood
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KAREN EARNSHAW The lives of many hundreds of Majuro’s youth were dramatically changed for the better over the past 20 years because a woman in New Hampshire was expanding her family. “One of my colleagues was adopting a Marshallese child,” Professor Andrew Garrod said at Dar Café Monday morning. “To do this, she flew to […]
By Journal on February 29, 2024
Amata Radewagen, COFA, Compact of Free Association, Ed Case, Mike Johnson, Sabrina Singh, Steve Womack
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Everyone, it seems, wants the US Congress to pass the Compact of Free Association legislation for the RMI, Federated States of Micronesia and Palau — even most members of the Congress itself. But that hasn’t helped get the stalled legislation onto the Congress’ legislative calendar in a form that will make it passable. Over five […]
By Journal on February 22, 2024
Alele Museum, Chargé Lance Posey, College of the Marshall Islands’ SGT Solomon Sam Basketball Court., Education Week, Hilda Heine, Joe Bejang, Kalani Nii/Office of the President, Ladie N. Jack, Tanaka Kazunari
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President Dr. Hilda Heine participated in Friday’s Education Week opening ceremony at the College of the Marshall Islands’ SGT Solomon Sam Basketball Court. Heine delivered empowering remarks during the ceremony highlighting the importance of the Education Week. She mentioned that Education Week is an opportunity to celebrate public education, inform the community of the accomplishments […]
By Journal on February 22, 2024
Ambassador Steve Hsia, Arno and Ailinglaplap, Bruce Loeak, David Paul, Donated forty thousand, Gerald Zackios, Isaac Zackhras, RMI government, Taiwan
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Taiwan Ambassador Steve CC Hsia donated $40,000 to the government of the Marshall Islands last week for aid to Arno and Ailinglaplap atolls that were hit by strong waves last month. Hsia said the contribution is to be divided equally between the two atolls to provide emergency humanitarian assistance to the two atolls affected by […]
By Journal on February 22, 2024
1, Amata Kabua Blvd., Batkan, Ebeye, Giff Johnson, improvements, Jenrok sports field, Lojkar, Majuro, Micronesian games, MIHS, mobile phone network, NTA, Rita, Tommy Kijiner
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GIFF JOHNSON Dropped calls and calls that don’t go through. That’s been a way of life for cell phone users in the Marshall Islands. The upcoming Micronesian Games is not only improving and expanding sports facilities that people here will enjoy long after the games, but it is leading to what is hoped to be […]
By Journal on February 15, 2024
Andrew Garrod, Bonny Taggart, Charlie in The Music Man, Fiddler on the Roof, Germaine Muller, ICC, Karen Earnshaw, Musical, Oliver!, Wilmer Joel, Youth Bridge Global
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KAREN EARNSHAW “When I was a kid, my father told me there was to be a play and that we should go see it,” said Wilmer Joel, then a Rita Elementary School student. It was 2014 and the musical was Fiddler on the Roof: “I was captivated. I felt a magical tingling feeling as I […]
By Journal on February 15, 2024
Ebeye, Ebeye Pier, Enen Jabro, KADA, North Loij, PII, Road
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HILARY HOSIA Kwajalein Atoll Development Authority is paving the way for the future of Ebeye — quite literally. The KADA-designated contractor Pacific International Inc. has been on the roll with the Ebeye paving since the end of January. Last week, PII was paving the busiest intersection that connects the main traffic and commuters to and […]
By Journal on February 15, 2024
Bikini Town Hall, Jack Niedenthal, KBE, KBE Local Government, Kili Bikini Ejit
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The KBE Local Government handed out the first quarterly compensation payments to Bikinians in 14 months this past Friday. Since the late 1980s, quarterly payments had been provided to Bikinians like clockwork, based on the Bikini Claims Trust Fund, which was capitalized by the first Compact of Free Association’s nuclear test compensation section. But money […]
By Journal on February 8, 2024
Air Marshall Islands, Asterio Appi, Bremity Lakjohn, Chewy Lin, Kenye Mike, Nauru Air Corporation
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The idea of Honolulu air service has been discussed within the Marshall Islands Cabinet-appointed Aviation Task Force, as well as with Nauru Airlines officials, for a number of years. Minister for Nauru Air Corporation Asterio Appi and Minister in Assistance to the President of the Marshall Islands Bremity Lakjohn signed an air services memorandum of […]
By Journal on February 8, 2024
Andrew Garrod, Bonny Taggart, Charles Dickens, Gary Erhsam, Ilona Bito, Karen Earnshaw, Marshall Islands High School, Oliver!, Rehearsal
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KAREN EARNSHAW Rehearsals for the musical Oliver! are in full swing and going well at the Marshall Islands High School library each weekday afternoon and on Saturdays and we hear that the construction and painting of the sets is also coming along nicely. Producers Professor Andrew Garrod and Bonny Taggart and the rest of the […]