By Journal on February 24, 2022
Giff Johnson, Isocker Anwell, Jo-Jikum, Local Artist, Majuro Cooperative School, Marshall Islands High School, Rita Christian High School, Roxanne Cabral, Seventh Day Adventist School, US Embassy, Waan Aelon in Majel
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The US Embassy hosted an art exhibition at the Ambassador’s residence earlier this month, an event that brought together students from four Majuro high schools with NGOs Jo-Jikum and Waan Aelon in Majel. The students viewed both locally made works of art that were displayed in the outdoor ground floor deck area under the main […]
By Journal on February 17, 2022
Covid, Eve Burns, Gederick Henos, Giff Johnson, house to house, Jack Niedenthal, Kanson Basin, Mailynn Konelios-Lang, Ministry of Health and Human Services, Simiko Jomuly
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GIFF JOHNSON The government ramped up its ongoing Covid vaccination program Monday this week by starting house-to-house immunizations throughout Majuro. The move takes a page out of the measles vaccine program three years ago and the initial start of Covid vaccines in January 2021 by taking the program into the community.Monday’s outreach effort showed the […]
By Journal on January 27, 2022
AKIA CAFE, Amata Kabua International Airport, Bank of Marshall Islands, Daniel Kramer, Dexter Jikit, Giff Johnson, Hangar Bar, Larry Hernandez, RMI Ports Authority, Suspension, United Airlines
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GIFF JOHNSON Major changes are ongoing at Amata Kabua International Airport in the wake of United Airlines’ suspension of air service to the capital beginning last week Wednesday. But even with the emergency action that is moving with unprecedented speed, it appears that it could be March at the earliest that passenger service can be […]
By Journal on January 21, 2022
Amata Kabua International Airport, Daniel Kramer, Giff Johnson, Junior Aini, Kino Kabua, Larry Hernandez, Salome Andrike, Thomas Maddison, Tonga, United Airline
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GIFF JOHNSON A once in one thousand year natural disaster in Tonga last weekend broke its submarine fiber cable in two places, severing Tonga’s communication links to the outside world. Majuro, this week, also experienced a severing of links to the outside world in a different way. A man-made disaster in the form of lack […]
By Journal on December 30, 2021
Covid, Gaafar Uherbelau, Giff Johnson, Hilary Hosia, Kino Kabua, Kwajalein, Palau, RMI’s National Disaster Committee, US Army base, USAG-KA
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GIFF JOHNSON New Year’s fireworks will happen this weekend at the US Army base at Kwajalein after the RMI’s National Disaster Committee waived quarantine requirements for a technical team that arrived Tuesday this week to set up and operate the display. The Army asked for and was granted an exemption from the one-week Hawaii quarantine […]
By Journal on December 9, 2021
Amata Kabua International Airport, Chewy Lin, Dr. Murray Ford, Ebeye, Federated States of Micronesia, Giff Johnson, Hilary Hosia, Majuro, Sea Level Rise
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GIFF JOHNSON Ocean and lagoon water flooded the lowest lying areas for three straight days throughout the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia this past weekend and Monday, causing sparse damage but requiring big cleanups in their wake. The road by Amata Kabua International Airport in Majuro was halted periodically by incoming waves […]
By Journal on December 2, 2021
Compact of Free Association, Giff Johnson, RAND Corporation, US Defense Department, US-China, US-FAS, US-RMI
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GIFF JOHNSONEditorial comment The United States is a clear but unfocused partner of the Marshall Islands. “Unfocused” in contrast to China, its primary competitor in the region. On the one hand, there are countless US Congress people and administration officials jumping up and down about the increasing importance of the “Indo-Pacific” region (by the way, […]
By Journal on November 25, 2021
American Legion Post 22, FSM, Giff Johnson, Health Benefit, Joe Biden, Kalani Kanek, Military, Palau, RMI, US Compact, US House of Representatives of HR3730, US Veterans Administration
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GIFF JOHNSON Veterans from the Marshall Islands and the other freely associated states, all nations aligned with the US through Compacts, must travel at great personal expense to take advantage of health benefits they earned by their service in the US military. The practical impact of this situation is that most Marshallese veterans are completely […]
By Journal on October 21, 2021
Crystal Amram, Giff Johnson, Jack Niedenthal, Katrina Amram, Lynn Anien, Majuro Coop School, Marshall Islands High School, Pfizer vaccine, Wilmer Joel
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WILMER JOEL, GIFF JOHNSON The Ministry of Health and Human Services began implementing the Pfizer vaccine for students who are 12 to 17 years old in various local high schools and middle schools in Majuro earlier this month. Each week on Fridays, ministry staff are going to these secondary schools to conduct the vaccinations. Their […]
By Journal on October 21, 2021
Antonia Wase, Benjamin Kiluwe, Brenson Wase, Carl Ingram, Giff Johnson, Palukne Johnny, RMI Ministry of Finance
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Minister Brenson Wase took the oath of office last Friday at Cabinet, bringing him back into the the Ministry of Finance — a post in which he has many years previous experience. Special Assistant to the President Benjamin Kiluwe emceed the swearing in, Rev. Palukne Johnny of the United Church of Christ blessed the undertaking, […]