By Journal on March 23, 2023
2024, Asia Pacific Airlines, Covid, Delap, Giff Johnson, III, Joey Miranda, Micro Games, National Olympic Committees, Pacific International Inc., postponed, sports federations, Tony Muller, US Federal Aviation Administration
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GIFF JOHNSON The Micronesian Games were postponed last week, the second time in two years for the regional sports competition to be delayed. As the July 22 opening of the Micronesian Games began to loom large — the daily countdown sign in Delap had ticked down into the 120s — it became increasingly clear in […]
By Journal on March 16, 2023
Chris deBrum, Likiep, Likiep Atoll, US Department of Interior
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A new dock at Likiep Atoll is nearing completion. The funding for the dock was provided by the Department of Interior through its Maintenance Assistant Program. Likiep Local Government advisor Chris deBrum estimated that the work is 90 percent complete for the dock. “Our local guys are working day and night to complete the project,” […]
By Journal on March 16, 2023
Jack Chong Gum, Marshalls Energy Company, US Army Corps of Engineers
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The most pressing problem facing MEC is the construction of a replacement building to house new generators that will be installed in the first power plant, originally built in 1982. Many of the Marshalls Energy Company’s improvement plans hinge on a new power plant building to house two or three new engines that are to […]
By Journal on March 16, 2023
Barbara Ned, Marshall Islands High School, Marty Mark, MIHS, Wilmer Joel
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WILMER JOEL Students at Marshall Islands High School are being denied entry to their classes after 8:15am. The school gate still remains open, but the school administration has advised teachers to send students home and not let them in. According to a MIHS administrator this is not a new policy and it is to discipline […]
By Journal on March 9, 2023
“Tobwe Mili”, Education Week, Laura Elementary School, MauLow’s band, Miss Kwajalein Dorine Korwan, Miss Marshall Islands Claret Chong Gum, Rita Elementary School, visited various schools, Wilmer Joel
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WILMER JOEL To the delight of countless students across the capital city, Miss Marshall Islands (MMI) Claret Chong Gum alongside the other misses visited various schools during Education Week. They got to see firsthand the talents, skills, and creativity of the rising generation of this nation. This is the first Education Week to really involve […]
By Journal on March 9, 2023
Covid, Hikoyuki Ukai, J-PRISM3, Japan International Cooperation Agency, Makoto Watanabe, Moriana Phillip, Regional Initiative on Solid Waste Management in Pacific Island, RMI Environmental Protection Authority, Yoshiki Narita
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The Marshall Islands and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed an agreement last month for the third phase of a Marshall Islands and Pacific regional solid waste program to move into gear. The program is officially known as the Project for Promotion of Regional Initiative on Solid Waste Management in Pacific Island Countries Phase […]
By Journal on March 9, 2023
Alson Kelen, Amata Kabua, Andrew Williamson, Antari Elbon, Berlida deBrum, Bravo bomb, Carnie Reimers, David Kabua, Dr. Martin Luther King, Ellen Chong Gum, Henry Kissinger, Hiroshi Yamamura, Josen Teico, National Nuclear Commission, Nuclear Victim Remembrance Day, Roxanne Cabral, Wilmer Joel
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WILMER JOEL One of the darkest chapters in our nation’s history was observed nationwide during the 35th Nuclear Victim Remembrance Day and 69th anniversary of the Bravo hydrogen bomb test last Wednesday — March 1 — focused on the theme “kūrtiplọk” or perseverance. This annual event commemorates the devastating repercussions and injustices experienced by victims […]
By Journal on March 2, 2023
Asian Development Bank, Jack Niedenthal, Mental Health Iakwe Ward, Ministry of Health and Human Services, The US Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
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The first mental health facility of its kind in the RMI was opened last Friday with much fanfare.Speeches, ribbon cutting and a live band last Friday afternoon at Majuro hospital highlighted the opening of the country’s first “Mental Health Iakwe Ward.” The need for a crisis holding facility at the hospital was known for many […]
By Journal on March 2, 2023
“Etak in Wa”, Education Week, Majuro Local Police Force, Marshall Islands High School, Timoci Ratidara, Wilmer Joel
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WILMER JOEL MIHS got off to a rocky start with no organized school-based activities for Education Week, while other schools were marching along with theirs throughout last week. The largest high school in the country was still in instruction mode. However that changed when the school administration conceded to the student leaders request for a […]
By Journal on March 2, 2023
Betty Chung, Irene Taafaki, Jeremiah Knight, Pacific American Fund, USAID
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The US government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has awarded $1 million to the College of the Marshall Islands (CMI) to provide 24,000 local language, place-based books to public schools, libraries, and learning centers across the Marshall Islands. The Pacific Sustainability Readers series of 24 books will address critical issues such […]