Journal 4/9/1982
P2 Head Start specialist visiting centers
Fay Graef, Head Start program specialist from the San Francisco Regional office, is here visiting Head Start centers in Micronesia. Of the Head Start program here, she said she is impressed with the staff, the centers and their work, particularly the Policy Council of the Head Start program in Majuro.
P3 Planning Coop school for Kwaj
Kwajalein is about to get a school patterned after the successful Majuro Cooperative School, Senator Imada Kabua announced this week. He said Jim Duffy, a former principal of the Majuro Coop School, went to Kwajalein recently to make a survey.
Journal 4/12/2011
P1 ‘We shall overcome’
“We shall overcome,” they sang hand in hand with the UNFPA visitors they came to entertain last Friday night at the Marshall Islands Club. Our young people at their best, and this may have been their finest hour to date as the UNFPA group vowed to see their Youth to Youth in Health organization emulated throughout the Pacific…With population growth out of control, we have reached a ‘take off’’ point, these young people are it. Youth to Youth in Health is a dynamic non-profit organization dedicate to health education, solving social problems and practicing and conserving their cultural traditions.— Gerald Knight
P19 Implications of population
What are the implications of our growing population? If the “no-change” situation occurs, it could mean that Majuro by the year 2025 has a population of 85,800. The low projection assumes there will be a faster decline in fertility and a slow decline in mortality, which would mean the RMI could have a population of 66,800.
P21 TT leaving Saipan HQ
The sun is about to set on the last vestige of the historic Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands presence in Saipan. The US Interior Department will move the dwindling headquarters function to Palau, the world’s only UN trusteeship, possibly by October 1. “It’s the last act,” said Sam McPhetres, coordinator of archives and international organizations for the Trust Territory transition office. “We’re fading into the night.” At its peak in 1973, the HQ staff numbered about 800 persons with a $100 million annual budget. The were an estimated 20,000 employees working in the Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, the Northern Marianas and Palau.
Journal 4/15/2011
P6 Bikini reopens
After a three-year shutdown, Bikini Atoll is reopening its lagoon and its fleet of sunken World War II vessels to international scuba divers from May 20. The KBE Local government is reopening the tourism business in partnership with surfing and water sports promoter Martin Daly.
P9 Heine: Woven into fabric of RMI
There are things we choose to remember about a man once he is laid to rest. However, in some ways, Carl Heine was more than a man — he was a piece of Marshall Islands history. Carl played a pivotal role in numerous political structures: the Congress of Micronesia, the Political Status Commission, the Marshall Islands Constitutional Convention, the first to the eighth Nitijela, and as an ambassador to the United Nations and the People’s Republic of China. He was also the first, and so far only, published Marshallese with his book, “Micronesia at the Crossroads.” —Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner