By Journal on March 14, 2024
Brenda ALik, Claret Chong Gum, Eve Burns, International Women's Day, Jenrok sports field, Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner, KIJLE, Neijon Edwards, Rosalia Mottelang, Sai Turaga, Takbar Ishiguro
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EVE BURNS The Marshall Islands joined countries around the world in celebrating International Women’s Day, honoring the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day serves as a call to action for gender equality and also highlights the accomplishments of women. The theme for this year was ‘women for prosperity and harmony.’ The […]
By Journal on March 14, 2024
Ann MacDonald, APIC, Association for Promotion of International Cooperation, Bryant Zebedy, Giff Johnson, Jack Chong Gum, James Myazoe, Japan Embassy in the Marshall Islands, Jikit Rufus, MIMRA, Nover Juria, Toshinori Shigeie, Won Hai Shien
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The President of Japan’s Association for Promotion of International Cooperation led a delegation to Majuro in late February, hosting Marshall Islands participants of APIC programs to a reunion dinner. Japan Ambassador Toshinori Shigeie, APIC’s president, presided over a dinner at Won Hai Shien for a mixed group of local people who had attended various APIC-sponsored […]
By Journal on March 14, 2024
Ajeltake, Carl Montgomery, Charles Lomae, Delap Elementary School, Ebeye, Hilary Hosia, Jaluit, Jaluit High School, Kili island, Likiep, Mark Canney, Mili
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HILARY HOSIA There is a home behind Delap Elementary School that suffers a fate three times worse than most during ocean inundations in Majuro. The home is sandwiched between a local-government-funded seawall to its left and a riprap structure made by the national government on its right. This leaves a gap through which waves, energized […]
By Journal on March 7, 2024
AJ Nashion Kaneko, Chantelle Rogers-Niedenthal, Chewy Lin, Daniel Lobwij, Dr. Andrew Garrod, Duke Jendrikdrik, Haruka Sato, Heleina Bill, Helton John, ICC, Ilona Bito, Jack Niedenthal, Jamal Latior, KIO Club, Laurence Underwood, Lillia Jack, Mona Strauss, Nica Wase, Oliver!, Ratakin Zebedy, Siana Jetnil
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JACK NIEDENTHAL Everyone’s childhood should be filled with the magic of the world shepherded by loving parents, but this doesn’t always happen. Oliver! is a play about an orphan boy who yearns for a family as he survives the dark underworld of the 1830s London streets. Oliver! has provided director Dr. Andrew Garrod with one […]
By Journal on March 7, 2024
Climate Change Directorate., COP28, Eve Burns, National Adaption Plan, Results, RMI government, sea-level rise
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“The Republic of the Marshall Islands is facing an unprecedented crisis due to climate change,” reads the opening of a brief about the RMI’s new National Adaption Plan being circulated by the Climate Change Directorate. “Acute threats such as rising sea levels, fluctuating temperatures, and inconsistent rainfall are expected to have profound effects across all […]
By Journal on March 7, 2024
Alele Museum, Assumption students, Belwin Langidrik, Bravo Nuclear Bomb test, Claret Chong Gum, College of the Marshall Islands, Henry Puna, Hilary Hosia, Hilda Heine, Kalani Kaneko, Kathy Joel, Ladie Jack, Lance Posey, Lirok Kelen, Mina Titus, Mymy Loeak, Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day, Rongelap survivors, Vicky Capelle, Wilmer Joel
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Bold remarks were made at the 70th anniversary of the Bravo hydrogen bomb test on Nuclear Victims’ Remembrance Day at CMI last Friday. Local and regional dignitaries delivered speeches during the memorial ceremony after a parade from Alele Museum to CMI. US Embassy Chargé d’Affaires Lance Posey said that the legacy of Cold War-era […]
By Journal on February 29, 2024
Emperor Naruhito, Hilary Hosia, Isaac Zackhras, Japan, Kagami Biraki, Kalani Kaneko, Lanny Kabua, Leikman Zedkaia, Tanaka Kazunari, Witten Philippo
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HILARY HOSIA Marshall Islands joined the rest of the world in celebrating Japan Emperor Naruhito’s 64th birthday at the Marshall Islands Resort last Thursday. In the event, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Kalani Kaneko exchanged toasts with Japan Ambassador Tanaka Kazunari, signifying 35 years of political partnership between the two nations. In his remarks, […]
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 […]