Journal 11/20/1987
P1 Majuro five still alive
Majuro’s five incumbents head the list of vote getters in the final but unofficial vote count for all Mauro election wards. The unofficial results showed President Amata Kabua at the top, Hemos Jack was second, while Phillip Muller and Tony deBrum were a close third and fourth. Henry Samuel was in fifth.
Journal 11/19/1999
P1 Phillip and Tony tumble in Majuro vote upset
In a stunning setback for the majority party, powerful Cabinet ministers Tony deBrum and Phillip Muller were defeated in the preliminary and still unofficial election returns as of late Tuesday. Despite mounting a high-profile campaign as part of a three-way team with Irooj and Vice Speaker Jurelang Zedkaia, 16-year Nitijela veterans Muller and deBrum — previously untouchable office holders — were dropped by voters in favor of United Democratic Party candidates. The two Cabinet ministers are the architects of the Marshalls recent Taiwan recognition. Wilfred Kendall, a former ambassador to Washington, was the top vote-getter. Witten Philippo, a former Chief Justice of the High Court, was second. Zedkaia was third. Brenson Wase, a long-time senator from Arno who switched to Majuro for this election, was in fourth, while former Jaluit Senator Alik Alik took the fifth spot.
P3 New mayor for Majuro
The crowded race for Majuro turned into a two-way contest between incumbent Mayor Tarmile Ishoda and Councilman Mudge Samuel. Samuel is well on his way to being Majuro’s new mayor, according to unofficial results.
P7 Which “day” is it?
Off-island enthusiasts for Marshallese politics have been spared the egregious affront to local ears this past week as listeners were subjected to a strange series of reports emanating from some foreign place in the world called “Day-Lap.” Yes, Steve Whitehead was doing all-night duty translating election returns into Whiteheadese from the counting station in the town of Day-Lap. We overheard one exchange with Steve around 4am on the morning of the count. Someone said to Steve, “It’s Del-lap, Steve, not day-lap.” “Right,” said Steve, “that’s what I said, day-lap.” Go figure.
Journal 11/19/2010
P6 Matt Holly offers fire history
“There have been five major fires in Majuro,” Matt Holly, who helped the response team during Friday’s Uliga fire, said Tuesday. The first big one was when two of the Trust Territory warehouses burnt down. They were where Grant Labaun’s store (Division 7/12) is now. There were three warehouses, but the third one was saved when Stan Riley drove a 966 bulldozer through an office and created a fire break.” Riley was a retired demolition expert who lived in Majuro in the early 1980s.“The third warehouse is still there and is Ministry of Education’s storage place. The second big fire, according to Holly, was the Seven Degrees North/Downtown building where Midtown is now. “Stan Riley put that one out too by using the ‘966’ and crushing the back wall. Three was the supply warehouse located where Cost Price is now and number four was the Cost Price building at the same site.” Holly said that Friday’s fire at the old Majuro Hotel, and more recently Leiroij Takbar Ishiguro’s residence, was number five.
P35 Students check UES tabletops
Is the cleanliness of classroom tabletops related to the level of student absences? This is one of the questions CMI professor of microbiology Gary Patterson and his group of nursing students wanted to answer in a three-month project involving Uliga Elementary School. The project tested the bacteria
left on classroom tabletops after cleaning them with distilled water compared to different types of disinfecting fluids. The experiment found that children in the classrooms that used distilled water as a cleaner were more than twice as likely to become ill than children in classrooms which used ammonium wipes daily.