Journal 5/20/1983
P1 New Japan-Marshalls fishing agreement on per boat basis
A new fishing agreement is now in effect between the Marshall Islands and Japan’s tuna fishing association. The agreement was signed by Foreign Affairs Secretary Tony deBrum after the Cabinet approved it on April 15. The new one-year agreement provides payments to the Marshall Islands according to the number of Japanese ships that fish in Marshallese waters. Previous agreements provided for payment of a fixed amount to RepMar regardless of the number of ships that fished here.
P1 WCC sends radiation team
A team of five persons will arrive on Sunday to spend two weeks in the Marshalls talking with leaders and interviewing persons affected by low level radiation during the tests on Bikini and Enewetak. They will visit with Foreign Secretary Tony deBrum, Senator Jeton Anjain, Senator Henchi Balos, Senator Donald Matthew, Senator Ismael John, Chief Secretary Oscar deBrum, and Alele Curator Jerry Knight.
Journal 5/22/1992
P1 Belli to bat for Mili
Mili Senator Kejjo Bien has enlisted the support of heavyweight trial lawyer Melvin M. Belli in his quest for World War II compensation from Japan for the southern atoll. Bien said Belli agreed to take the case after a meeting in San Francisco earlier this month. The two believe that Japanese war compensation was inadequate.
P9 AMI prepares pilots for DC-8 jet operations
Air Marshall Islands sent a group of its pilots off for DC-8 training in the US this week in anticipation of taking over operation of the jet service to Hawaii. Marshallese 748 aircraft captains Helbert Alfred and Albon Jelke will spend nearly four weeks at ground training school in Oakland, California. AMI’s contract with Hawaiian Airlines, which currently operates the DC-8, expires in July.
P20 Kabajua nips Ace, Jemeluit II tips MMA
A pitchers’ battle in the Kabajua-Ace game kept the runners off the bases, as Kabajua nipped Ace 3-2. Ace struck in the first, when Hackney doubled and Alu doubled him home. Kabajua pushed two across on a hit batsman and singles by Danny and Daniel in the second. Ace tied it up when pitcher Whitney singled home Biten. Then in the fifth Caston singled home Headly for the winning margin.
Journal 5/25/2012
P3 Census shows 30% of ri-Majol now live in US
Thirty percent of Marshall Islanders now live in the United States and its territories, according to a comparison of the recent US and Marshall Islands national censuses. The RMI census in 2011 reported 53,158 people living in the Marshall Islands. The 2010 US census said there are 22,434 Marshallese living in the United States and its territories.
P10 Noticeable developments
Teenage and 20-something guys in a group drinking — under a pandanus tree, by a seawall, in back of someone’s house where lighting is not good at night — are common scenes in Majuro and Ebeye (except for the pandanus tree scenario: there are not many on Ebeye). But as keen observers of the Majuro scene, we lately have observed behavior amplified from past years. Where Friday and Saturday nights — and the attendant collateral damage of passed out drunks the following mornings — used to be the focus of drinking, we now frequently notice drunks in broad daylight. In fact, a group of likao stumbling down the mainroad with one “water bottle” filled with vodka between them is becoming a regular sight. How about drinking groups around people’s houses all day Sunday? That’s another more regular occurrence that we hardly saw a few years back.