KAREN EARNSHAW The building of the Marshall Islands Shipping Corporation’s 150-foot sailing cargo vessel on Geoje Island, South Korea, has reached a milestone: On Friday, May 26, the Asia Shipbuilding company held a keel laying ceremony. The event was attended by a range of VIPs, including Foreign Affairs Minister Kitlang Kabua and RMI Ambassador to […]
The first Marshallese to graduate with a US medical doctor degree in a generation graduated last week in Arkansas. Dr. Derek Alik, son of Dr. Wilfred and Carmina Alik, completed his studies at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine. Numerous family members were on hand to congratulate him at the graduation […]
HILARY HOSIA Nitijela Speaker Kenneth Kedi called on church leaders from around the Pacific to support the government to reach out to the public on issues facing the nation. Speaker Kedi made the remarks during the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC) meeting in Majuro Monday at the Marshall Islands Resort, where Kedi said the influence […]
GIFF JOHNSON The Forum Fisheries Committee — representing the 17 members of the Forum Fisheries Agency — met from Monday through Thursday this week at the Marshall Islands Resort’s Melele Room. While the meeting worked on budgets, policies and often mundane topics from the public’s point of view, every FFC meeting translates directly into the […]
The memory of fallen Marshallese soldier SSG Solomon Sam is bound to live on through the creation of a new scholarship in his name. The initiative is the brainchild of the local US military veterans group Post 22. The scholarship will be given at the College of Marshall Islands. The scholarship will be the second […]
The Marshall Islands is gaining momentum toward the establishment of a National Water Safety Plan following a half-day seminar on water safety at the Marshall Islands Resort last Thursday. The seminar invited government officials, members from the private sector and State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) that sell and provide water to the community. The program was […]
Wesley Simina of Chuuk State is the new president of the Federated States of Micronesia. He was elected by the FSM Congress at its first meeting last week following the national election in March. Joining him in the executive branch is Vice President Aren Palik of Kosrae, who continues on from a term started two […]
High school students engaged in the first-ever moot court competition where they were exposed to courtroom debate organized by the Public School System and the Marshall Islands Law Society at the International Conference Center at the end of April. The schools had only three days of preparation for the moot competition after a briefing about […]
GIFF JOHNSON The first demonstration in Majuro in many years happened Monday at the Kili-Bikini-Ejit Town Hall in Uliga. All demonstrations in the Marshall Islands, a country whose people are noted for “speaking under the waves,” are unprecedented in some ways. They are also relatively few and far between. Hospital staff demonstrated and then went […]
WILMER JOEL Majuro’s first-ever arm wrestling competition, the brainchild of Thomas Forns and the Majuro Arm Wrestling Association, became reality last weekend at Delap Park. The event featured numerous armwrestling competitors around the island for six divisions. Power 103.5 DJ Yastamon co-hosted the competition with Thomas who was also refereeing. There was a goodwill matchup […]
