By Journal on June 16, 2022
Compact of Free Association, Covid, David Kabua, Donald Trump, FSM, Hilda Hiene, Jessica Dambruch, Joe Biden, Joseph Yun, Keone Nakoa, Kitlang kabua, Mike Pompeo, Palau, Pohnpei, Roxanne Cabral, US Army, US Marine Crops
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![US Special Presidential Envoy for Compact Negotiations Ambassador Joseph Yun is greeted by US Ambassador to RMI Roxanne Cabral at Bucholz Army Airfield following his arrival Tuesday this week at Kwajalein. A saluting Marine airman and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior Keone Nakoa are also pictured. Photo: US Army/Jessica Dambruch. Friendly starts to compact talks](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/compact-6-17.jpg?resize=750%2C350&ssl=1)
GIFF JOHNSON Nearly three years after the first in-person preliminary discussions were held between the US and the Marshall Islands for a third funding agreement in the Compact, negotiations resumed again this week with a two-day meeting at Kwajalein. The negotiations stalled after these first discussions were held in Pohnpei between President Trump’s Secretary of […]
By Journal on September 5, 2019
Bikini, David Bernhardt, Donald Trump, Enewetak, Hilda Heine, Kelly Lorennij, Kevin Lunday, Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, Nic McLellan, Pacific Islands Forum, Rarotonga Treaty, Rongelap, Sandra Oudkirk, Tim Gallaudet, Utrok, World War II
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![The US government panel at the Tuvalu press conference, from left: US Coast Guard Rear Admiral Kevin Lunday, Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, the State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands Sandra Oudkirk, and Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere Tim Gallaudet. Photo: Kelly Lorennij. Nuclear legacy gets US focus](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Pacific-9-6.jpg?resize=750%2C350&ssl=1)
KELLY LORENNIJ Among the important topics discussed by Pacific Island Forum leaders in Tuvalu last month was the issue of nuclear contamination in the region, a long-standing concern stated in previous Forum meetings and official communique statements, as well as health and security issues related to World War II wrecks and unexploded ordnance. This year […]
By Journal on August 15, 2019
Donald Trump, Giff Johnson, John Silk, Mike Pompeo, Naoaki Kamoshida, Taro Kono
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![Marshall Islands Foreign Minister John Silk, center red shirt, with Japan Foreign Minister Taro Kono (to his left) and Japan delegation on visit to Majuro August 8. Kono announced a variety of Japan aid to the Marshall Islands during the short visit. Photo: Giff Johnson. US, Japan ramp up FAS aid](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/japan-8-16.jpg?resize=750%2C350&ssl=1)
GIFF JOHNSON World War II battlegrounds, 1950s hydrogen bomb test sites, and prized real estate controlled by the United States during the Cold War era with the former Soviet Union, the islands of Palau, Federated States of Micronesia and the Marshall Islands in the north Pacific were relegated to backwater outposts the past three decades […]
By Journal on October 4, 2018
Donald Trump, Hilda Heine, illegal fishing, IUU, Manu Tupou-Roosen, Melania Trump, Transform Aqorau, WCPFC
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![President Hilda Heine was in New York last week for the UN General Assembly and joined US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump. This week she challenged the Pacific to rid the region of illegal fishing by 2023. Photo: White House. RMI wants illegal fishing halt by 2023](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/hilda-donald-melania-10-5.jpg?resize=750%2C350&ssl=1)
The Marshall Islands this week called on Pacific nations to agree to abolish illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing by 2023. President Hilda Heine made the call to action at
By Journal on April 6, 2017
Donald Trump, passport, RMI passport
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![People watch the evening United flight to Honolulu to see their relatives off from outside the security fence at Amata Kabua International Airport. Photo: Isaac Marty. Passport production way up](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/passport-4-7.jpg?resize=750%2C350&ssl=1)
Thousands of Marshallese living in the US may be reacting to President Donald Trump’s executive actions relating to immigration by ordering updated passports from the RMI Attorney General’s office. The number of passports produced from January to March more than tripled compared to the same three-month period last year, with many of these passports being […]
By Journal on March 25, 2016
Donald Trump, Marshalls, passport
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![Over 70 people crammed the stairs, balcony and the reception area of the Attorney General Cram @ passport office](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Fl-passport-stairway.jpg?resize=555%2C280&ssl=1)
America these days is ablaze with controversy surrounding the presidential election combat featuring billionaire Donald Trump. Here in the Marshalls, however, the blaze is fueled by that well-known word from the Bible: Exodus. Monday we factored the viability of the concrete steps at the Will Mart building on the Laura Road. First floor of the […]