Bank of Marshall Islands showed its support this week for Marshallese students studying overseas through the United World College program. For the second year in a row, BOMI provided the Marshall Islands UWC National Committee with a donation that assists a student to study in Singapore with an approximately five percent match for her total […]
GIFF JOHNSON For the past two weeks, a lot of the debate at Nitijela has centered on hardships on the outer islands because of shipping woes. Transportation Minister Hilton Kendall acknowledged that of the four operational RMI Shipping Corporation vessels, two needed dry docking and one needed decommissioning — meaning it was ready for retirement. […]
GIFF JOHNSON What happens when a hard drive you own with many years of knowledge, information and documents stored suddenly dies? That is nothing compared to the death of an ocean navigator — a person who has the knowledge and experience in his brain from generations of navigators in his family, giving him the ability […]
The RMI’s 22nd high school student to head to a United World College school abroad was recognized recently by Taiwan Ambassador Herbert Hsu and Education Commission Dr. Natalie Nimmer. Richston Orgen, Jr., an 11th grader at Seventh Day Adventist School in Delap, was nominated by the UWC National Committee of the Marshall Islands to attend […]
Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine called Monday’s Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day “a sacred space for remembrance – a space where we pause to reflect upon the nuclear testing years from 1946 to 1958, and a space to rekindle our memory of those who had endured and suffered the consequences of 12 turbulent years that have […]
KAREN EARNSHAW The evolution of Marshall Islands canoes this week reached yet another milestone thanks to a small group of people “learning from the past for the present and the future.” This philosophy is a motivating factor for Germany’s Henrik Richter-Alten, who first stepped through the doors of Waan Aelon in Majel in January, 2018. […]
The United World College National Committee of the Marshall Islands has been offering scholarships to Marshallese high school students to attend UWC international schools around the world since 2012. They got together for their annual “selection day” program at the College of the Marshall Islands conference room last week with six students from four high […]
Culture week was a great way to showcase canoe culture in local schools. During the week at the end of September, Waan Aelon in Majel (Canoes of the Marshall Islands) Director Alson Kelen and Traditional Skills Trainer Binton Daniel and Public School System staff visited Rairok Elementary School to engage the students in learning about […]
GIFF JOHNSON When was the last time you attended a graduation ceremony in the Marshall Islands and the keynote speaker was a high school drop out? If you answered, “never,” that would be about right. And this point underlines another reason that the Waan Aelon in Majel (Canoes of the Marshall Islands) program is both […]
GIFF JOHNSON There is so much going on at Waan Aelon in Majel that you may be forgiven for wondering if you wandered into a time warp locating you in another country or time period. On any given day, you may find 25 young people learning and hands-on practicing English and math, carpentry skills, sailing […]
