Despite Ailuk Atoll being an inhabited location, its reef system is in immaculate condition, according to the National Geographic Pristine Seas visit there earlier this month, the first stop on a three-month survey of numerous northern islands, both inhabited and unpopulated. “Ailuk is not an untouched atoll,” said Marshall Islands expedition science lead, Juan Mayorga. […]
Every day in Majuro since early April has featured softball, volleyball and basketball games as part of the Constitution Day sports competition. But this past Saturday belonged to the canoe paddlers. They turned out in large numbers for a series of races that may have left the audience on the lagoon shore by Marshall Islands […]
GIFF JOHNSON Important facts emerged from the first two weeks of the Covid outbreak, as of Tuesday this week: • 12 of the initial 14 deaths from Covid were dead on arrival (DOA) at Majuro or Ebeye hospitals, meaning the 12 did not seek or receive medical care for their condition. It also means only […]
GIFF JOHNSONMarshall Islands police incinerated over 1,400 pounds of cocaine in Majuro on December 15 after the cache of drugs drifted into Ailuk Atoll last week. Police said it is the largest volume of cocaine to ever wash into the Marshall Islands, which has seen hundreds of kilos of cocaine wash into multiple islands over […]
Journal 3/20/1981 P2 Ailuk to get airfield soon One of three government landing craft utilities left Majuro last week for Ailinglaplap with personnel and necessary equipment to compact and extend several hundred feet of Bakilkil airport at Ailinglaplap. Secretary of Resources and Development Hemos Jack said after completion of the Ailinglaplap runway renovation, the LCU […]
SEIICHIRO TAKEMINE Ailuk islander Tempo Alfred, 77, died in Majuro earlier this month. One of a dwindling number of elder Marshallese survivors of the US nuclear weapons testing program, Tempo was born on Ailuk. As a 13-year-old boy, he was an eyewitness to the March 1, 1954 Bravo hydrogen bomb test. He remembered a flash […]
HILARY HOSIA The spectacle created by Ailuk winning canoe WOLA-I WOLA-O as it glided through the finish line toward a beach full of screaming fans could be taken like those Hollywood happy endings, where people can’t keep their eye off a canoe — dashing through the waves with its outrigger suspended in the air while […]
HILARY HOSIA Like many years past, it rained cats and dogs hours before the 17th Bank of Marshall Islands Ralik Ratak Shootout kicked off last Friday at the Staff Sergeant Solomon Sam Sports Center at the College of Marshall Islands. Following four days of back-to-back action, Lae placed itself on top of the food chain […]
Distribution of drought emergency supplemental food to the outer islands starts this week, with the MV Kwajalein being loaded at Uliga Dock for a Thursday departure to 10 atolls and two single islands. A total of 4,747 people living on remote islands will receive supplemental food supplies paid for by the US Agency for International […]
Ailuk Mayor Rufina Jack is always on the lookout for projects that will benefit the atoll. In 2014, she approached on-island grant writer Bonny Taggart about seeking funding to initiate a sewing training project on Ailuk – using machines that don’t need electricity. Bonny found a vendor in the US for the machines and treadle […]
