President Hilda Heine, Cabinet members and diplomats took a tour of the Nitijela’s new but still under construction building Tuesday afternoon with Jerry Kramer and Pacific International Inc. officials. The occasion marked completion of installation of the roof over the building, which will now allow PII to step-up its work operations to complete the interior […]
GIFF JOHNSON Anytime there are westerly winds, Majuro’s downtown area can expect to take a hit. The overnight Sunday into early Monday winds ramped up quickly, turning the normally placid DUD lagoon area into a boiling caldron of waves that upended boats, tore vessels off moorings, and beached several craft. But it wasn’t only on […]
Ten teams took part in the twenty-second Lazarus Andrike memorial tournament, which was combined with the Total Pounds Sailfish Marshalls Billfish Club carry-over fishing tournament and the Total Qualifying Pounds competition. Captain Kyle Aliven and Team Nali grabbed the spotlight on the dock for winning the TQ tourney with 191 pounds of potential sashimi and […]
GIFF JOHNSON Landfill work ongoing between Katoj Park and the airport terminal is to create space for a new parking lot at the airport and also to realign the road. The land reclamation by Pacific International Inc. at the lagoon side of the approach to the airport dovetails with the work that was launched two […]
Of all of the US jurisdictions in the Pacific Islands, the RMI is the only so-called “non-State” to be rated as meeting the expectations for Special Education compliance. “In fact,” said RMI Education Commissioner Dr. Natalie Nimmer, “we are the only one in the Pacific, even if you count Hawaii, Guam, etc.” A US Department of […]
The Australian Defense Vessel (ADV) Reliant traveled 1,300 nautical miles across the Marshall Islands from 20 May to 3 June to deliver more than 120 tons of water infrastructure cargo to four remote atolls in support of the UNDP-delivered Addressing Climate Vulnerability in the Water Sector (ACWA+) project managed by the RMI Environmental Protection Authority. […]
The most tuna transshipments since January 2024 happened last month in Majuro, with 28 purse seiners moving their tuna catches through Port Majuro. But the even better news is that the first week of June may have set a record with 24 transshipments, nearly as many as the monthly totals for April and May this […]
GIFF JOHNSON The latest audit of the College of the Marshall Islands — the fiscal year 2023 audit — was completed and submitted to the US federal government last Thursday. It is nearly two years late, auditors questioned over $1.2 million in spending by the college, and for the second year in a row, the […]
GIFF JOHNSON President Hilda Heine on Tuesday this week signed an executive order declaring a “state of emergency for Ebeye,” enabling a fast track RMI government response to last Saturday’s devastating fire on Ebeye. The fire left over 100 homeless and destroyed two major businesses on the island. As it did in the wake of […]
GIFF JOHNSON A new national strategy to reduce non-communicable diseases in the Marshall Islands was recently approved by government. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) — which include diabetes and high blood pressure — arguably account for most of the illness and early deaths facing Marshallese. Health Secretary Francyne Wase-Jacklick underlined the urgency of action to reverse the […]
