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 […]
The scene at Ebeye Public Elementary School last Friday was typical of any other day of the week: The school’s kindergarten students were in their classroom and ready for action around 8am. Their classroom activity went until 10am, when the students and their teachers took their usual recess break. Moments after leaving their classroom, most […]
WILMER JOEL Hundreds of people from all walks of life converged at Delap Park Monday to celebrate RMI’s 44th Constitution Day – an annual commemoration that honors the founding of the Constitution, which came into effect on May 1, 1979. The theme of this year’s Constitution Day is “Idik Tur Eo” (shake the arsenal or […]
HILARY HOSIA Authorities were able to halt the spread of the fire at Special Restaurant in Batkan last week Friday to avert what could have been an even more serious fire disaster. The police and fire department scrambled to prevent the fire from spreading to the gas station attached to the restaurant while a bulldozer […]
HILARY HOSIA Captain Damien Milne and team Daliah reeled in the winning marlin during the Marshall Islands Development Bank’s 35th anniversary fishing tournament over the weekend. The winning marlin was a whopping 448-pounder with a $2,000 prize tag and was caught in Majuro waters. The event’s second biggest marlin weighed 328 pounds and is valued […]
Since starting its Pacific Flights Program in FY2020, the Australian government has spent over AUD$16.9 million ($11.4 million) connecting 13 Pacific countries and Australia through seven airlines facilitating over 600 flights that have moved over 45,000 people and over 4,000 tons of cargo including critical vaccines and medical supplies. It is currently assisting the Nauru […]
HILARY HOSIA The last time David Collins and Hackney Wase met in the basketball arena was 37 years ago as competitors representing their island nations of Kiribati and Marshall Islands — at an Oceania Basketball Tournament in Fiji in 1986. Fast forward to this week, the two reunited but as colleagues: David as coach for […]
EVE BURNS “There is no excuse to not win the top medal,” said Coach Francis Vicente, referring to the upcoming Micronesian Games. Francis arrived in Majuro last month to take up coaching of the RMI women’s volleyball team, a post he held for the 2018 Micronesian Games in Yap, guiding the RMI team to the […]
The Nitijela is calling on the RMI government to investigate the “Four Atolls,” which have consistently not produced timely audits or shown accountability over their funds.3 A 24-page Public Accounts Committee report to Speaker Kenneth Kedi recommends that the national government “investigate the accounts of the Four Atolls as to why they have financial systems […]
EVE BURNS Hundreds of people turned out for the launch of the new policy for Early Childhood Development (ECD) called Nurturing our Children to Flourish (Inonoki bwe en Didbōlbōl) last week at Delap Elementary School. The Ceremony was led by Miss Marshall Islands Claret Chong Gum. Pastor Jeledrik Binejal gave the invocation. Students from Laura […]
