WILMER JOEL The Seventh Day Adventist School signed a memorandum of understanding with the College of the Marshall Islands earlier this month to prepare its students for college-level mathematics. The signing ceremony took place inside the school gymnasium in the presence of faculty, staff, and students. The Public School System, CMI, and REL Pacific addressed […]
The Marshall Islands will not accept a “death sentence” from the global climate summit in Dubai, Minister John Silk said during the high-level government segment of the meeting last weekend. “Despite our best efforts, we are far, far off track” (from meeting the Paris Agreement limit of 1.5 degrees), he said. “We cannot pretend otherwise. […]
GIFF JOHNSON The final unofficial election results were issued by the Electoral Administration Tuesday December 12 this week, confirming that 13 Nitijela seats will change hands. Most postal absentee votes either didn’t arrive in time or were rejected for technical reasons, muting their impact. It appeared that only one Nitijela race — Likiep — was […]
GIFF JOHNSON Despite former Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine’s resignation late last week from a key global climate advisory committee and early conflicts emerging over the Pacific Islands’ demand for a phase out of fossil fuels and the COP President’s pushback on this central climate issue, Pacific Islands Forum Secretary General Henry Puna said from […]
GIFF JOHNSON The number of postal absentee ballots that made it back to RMI in time to be counted were fewer than 40 percent of the number mailed to Marshallese overseas — demonstrating the problems inherent in this voting system. On top of only 40 percent arriving — 1,469 ballots of 3,752 mailed out — […]
EVE BURNS Four athletes from the RMI weightlifting team returned home last Friday after medaling in the Pacific Games in Solomon Islands. They left home and their families to train and compete for Marshall Islands, won all 10 of RMI’s Pacific Games medals, but returned to be met with no appreciation at the airport except […]
HILARY HOSIA Even limited to a four-man team, the Environmental Protection Authority on Ebeye continues to ensure drinking water is safe for public consumption on top of its many tasks. Ebeye’s miniature stature EPA (compared to Majuro) is an advantage for the EPA crew when it comes to conducting water quality tests, which EPA does […]
JACOB WOITZEL* US Navy and Marshallese medical personnel delivered a joint effort to eliminate tuberculosis in Aur Atoll during the Pacific Partnership visit earlier this month. “Together, with our Marshallese partners, we are testing all residents of Aur for tuberculosis, and also starting treatment for those who tested positive,” said Lt. Hoel Rupert David, officer […]
WILMER JOEL Election day in the Marshall Islands saw a varied turnout of voters. From seven in the morning until seven in the evening on Monday, young and old Marshallese voters waited at the polling stations. Throughout the day, there were fluctuations in voter turnout, but some polling stations, such as Maloelap, Namo, Aur, Arno, […]
A robbery in broad daylight at the Bank of Marshall Islands’ debit card center resulted in an immediate change to the debit dispenser window, as seen in the photo. The debit card window slot has been modified so that people would have hard time reaching in to the secured area. Police from Kwajalein Atoll Local […]
