The final installation under the Emergency Communications Network project was completed earlier in the month in Bikarej, Arno Atoll. The World Bank-funded Pacific Resilience Program Phase II (PREP II) is managing the project on behalf of the National Disaster Management Office (NDMO), with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) contracted to undertake the installation and […]
Youth to Youth in Health celebrated its 40th anniversary last Thursday evening with a dinner, music and drama at Jitak. The event featured music, dancing and drama presented by youth peer educators, a presentation by President Hilda Heine, and remarks about the past and future of the program by board chair Giff Johnson and Director […]
Journal 1/14/1983 P1 MCAA to run major new job programA new job training program will begin operation here February 7 run by the Marshalls Community Action Agency. It will focus on providing skill training and work experiences to currently unemployed individuals. Two staff, Ione Heine, coordinator, and Ringo Betti, employment specialist, will be handling the […]
GIFF JOHNSON A major new educational program is expected to connect educators and students on every atoll and island in the country to step-up the use of technology in education. The new program, known as the Rebbelib Project, will roll out internet connections, laptops and training and educational programs to all public schools in the […]
GIFF JOHNSON It would take a Herculean effort by the Marshall Islands Shipping Corporation and copra makers to hit the 7,000 ton mark by the end of the fiscal year September 30. Four weak months of copra deliveries to the Tobolar Copra Processing Authority in Majuro put the nine-month total tonnage at 4,480 tons, according […]
Nine-year-old Rana Widjaj from Arno is all smiles after having her dislocated elbow fixed by the Canvasback Mission orthopedic surgeons on March 28. The problem with her arm had been spotted in 2023 during an earlier orthopedic visit so Canvasback co-founder Jacque Spence and the team organized, with help from the Arno Mayor, transport to […]
WILMER JOEL A 20-foot passenger and cargo boat sank in heavy seas near Arno Atoll just before the New Year, with four passengers still missing and presumed lost. Only three of the seven people on the small boat that sank December 30 were able to use ocean currents to swim into Majuro. The three washed […]
EVE BURNS Nito’s Wings founder Deborah Yoder was a volunteer nurse in Majuro in 2016 and worked with Nito’s family in an attempt to save Nito’s life. She told the Journal she later contacted the late Ambassador Tony deBrum requesting to start a California based non-profit in honor of Ceihera Toni Miyoko “Nito” deBrum Kedi. […]
WILMER JOEL A Japanese man ran the Majuro equivalent of a marathon — the 30 mile distance from Laura to Rita — this past Saturday. The run was timed for his birthday. Makito Murai, 41, who is from Tokyo, Japan, completed a six-hour Laura-Rita run as a way of saying farewell to Majuro. Murai’s “supporter,” […]
GIFF JOHNSON From the time American administrators of the US Trust Territory government started keeping copra tonnage statistics in 1951, it took 20 years for copra production to break the 7,000-ton mark in one year. That was 1970, when the “stars aligned” with copra making and shipping combining to produce the first-ever banner year for […]
