WILMER JOEL The Majuro Taxi Drivers Association was accused last week by EPPSO director Fred deBrum of violating the Retail Price Monitoring Act of 1992 by increasing taxi fares over the 25 percent price baseline. “What the taxi drivers did, they instantly went up to 30 some percent,” said deBrum. “They told me the reason […]
GEOVANNIE JOHNSON EPPSO director Fred deBrum revealed last week that the RMI 2021 census is “basically done.” His teams of enumerators continue to finish up a few follow-ups with households they missed in the first go-around. But this isn’t expected to change the numbers greatly.EPPSO plans to have a full written report on the census […]
GEOVANNIE JOHNSON EPPSO Director Fred deBrum and his team organized a promotional event for the upcoming RMI census at the Cabinet conference room at ICC with the Minister in Assistance and Environment Chris Loeak and numerous other officials in attendance. Joining the event were diplomatic officials from the US and Taiwan embassies, and representatives of […]
GEOVANNIE JOHNSON The Economic Policy, Planning and Statistics Office (EPPSO) has been preparing for months for August 23, the first day of the RMI 2021 national census. EPPSO is in charge of the official count of the population in the RMI and manages the census on a 10-year cycle. The last one was in 2011. […]
