Journal 5/18/1982
P1 Young vandals break into bottling plant
The TASC bottling plant was broken into May 16 around 10am. The perpetrators were aged from eight to 12 and they caused a great deal of mayhem before the back door of the plant was nailed shut. The police were called and they said they would come over and that they would also get in touch with the TASC people. Early afternoon, the (vandals) were still at it. When told to give up his bottles one boy had the nerve to ask if he could have just one bottle. We got in touch with some of the TASC people to learn that TASC no longer ran the plant and that it was now the responsibility of Jerry Kramer of PII. The police were again called and said they were indeed trying to get in touch with Kramer. There had been an announcement made on the radio (WSZO). Unfortunately, Kramer did not have his radio on. I paid him a visit to inform him about the warehouse. He was at PII and had not been informed earlier. Caps from the plant were strewn all over the downtown area. It will be a long time before they are all picked up. —Brett Schellhase
Journal 5/17/1991
P1 Greenpeace enters missile impact zone
The Greenpeace vessel Vega, a 36-foot catch, entered the impact zone of the US Star Wars missile intercept test May 11 on the high seas north of Kwajalein Atoll. According to Greenpeace missile researcher Martin Gotje, the Rainbow Warrior is expected to join the Vega in the zone later this week. Greenpeace is “protesting against the continued development of missiles and is asking all nations to address the issue of cumulative effects of missile tests on the environment,” Gotje said.
P1 Transshipment – Majuro is the place
Getting Majuro established as a sub-regional transshipment port was a hot topic of discussion this week. Jerry Kramer was found to be among the more active advocates for this concept. Kramer is president of the Majuro Chamber of Commerce. When asked about transshipment, he began ticking off positive reasons for transshipment as though he were selling shares in Majuro Stevedore and Terminal Company. “We have an excellent deep-water port with full facility transshipping, modern equipment, adequate storage space, emergency repair facilities and a capacity to load multiple vessels simultaneously,” he said. —Gerald Knight
P2 Rainbow Warrior returns
The Rainbow Warrior arrived back in port May 12 after spending a week at Mejatto Island in Kwajalein Atoll. The Warrior carried five truckloads of USDA food from Majuro for the Rongelap islanders.
Journal 5/20/2011
P2 RMI teen pregnancy rate high
The rate of babies born to teenagers in Majuro does not appear to be declining based on Majuro hospital statistics for the first three months of 2011 — but Ebeye is a different story. Majuro hospital reports a total of 262 births from January to March, with 49 of those being to women 14-19 years of age. That is a 19 percent rate of births to teenagers in Majuro, which is high compared to other Pacific islands. Of the 183 babies born at Ebeye from October 2010 through March 2011, 20 of them were to mothers 19-and-under. That is an 11 percent rate of teen births, nearly half that of Majuro
P3 PII takes on biggest project
The highest-cost construction project in the history of the Marshall Islands kicked off Friday with a groundbreaking ceremony at the end of the Amata Kabua International Airport’s runway. PII Chief Executive Officer Jerry Kramer said at the groundbreaking ceremony that the project is expected to employ up to 150 workers and inject as much as $2.7 million in taxes into government coffers.