Journal 3/26/1982
P1 Old Gateway Hotel coming down
The old Eastern Gateway Hotel structure is going to be torn down this week one wing at a time, according to Gateway/Nauru Local Government Council Majuro Manager John Bill. Now there are only 30 rooms available for rent at the hotel’s cottages, motel and trailers.
P7 High rate of thyroid cancer
Thyroid cancer was discovered in more than one-sixth of 250 Marshall Islanders who were exposed accidentally to fallout from 1954 hydrogen bomb explosions, researchers said in a Pacific Daily News Story. Forty two natives — 17 of them children — had the disease, according to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Thyroid glands the 42 were surgically removed. All 250 were later given thyroid hormonal tables and recovered, the article said.
Journal 3/22/1991
P9 Majuro gets women’s information office
The 1990s may be the decade of the Pacific Rim, but it will also be the ten years which will see Pacific when leap forward in obtaining equal attainment in rights and positions in the workforce. To assist women’s groups to communicate with each other and with those who they are trying to inform, the World Young Women’s Christian Association has organized a project, the Pacific Women’s Information/Communication Network. Now the Marshall Islands as a Pacific Women’s Regional Communication Network located on the College of the Marshall Islands campus.
P11 US companies target waste for Pacific
Seven Pacific island nations, including the Marshall Islands, have been targeted for hazardous waste exports from the United States as part of a massive global waste business that attempted to export more than 160 million tons of waste to dozens of countries, according to a recently released Greenpeace book, the International Trade in Waste. American Samoa, Solomon Islands,Western Samoa and Vanuatu have each rejected a series of waste proposals, while the Marshalls, Tonga and Papua New Guinea continue to actively consider importing waste for cash, according to the report.
Journal 3/25/2011
P3 Our capital building is falling to pieces
The Marshall Islands capital building suffered a break up of a portion of the ground floor ceiling from a major leak last Wednesday. A ceiling in the walkway between Finance and Nitijela broke open with water pouring out. Government employees working at the capital building were advised to step outside due to the incident.
P7 DeBrum dies in Honolulu
One of the longest serving Marshall Islands diplomats, who anchored this Pacific nation’s Washington embassy for two decades, has died in Honolulu. Ambassador Banny deBrum died Thursday in Honolulu at age 54 after an extended illness. “Ambassador deBrum was one of the Republic of the Marshall Islands’ most dedicated public servants,” said Foreign Minister John Silk Friday.
P27 Marah’s mighty marlin
Wally Milne’s big marlin was attached to the scale at the Marshall Islands Resort’s dock and slowly, slowly raised into the air and then … snap, crash, wallop … down it came again into the belly of Marah. Scott Howe, Rudy Aliven and Provan Crump dashed to the rescue to replace the broken items, with Provan taking the hero’s role of clambering up the shaky ladder and doing the deed. The unusually large black marlin was again lifted into the air, with the crowd oohing and aahing over the 435-pound beast. Fishing on Marah, Wally and his team also brought in a 253-pound blue marlin, giving him first place in Saturday’s Half ‘n Half tournament (biggest qualifying and total pounds).