By Journal on September 1, 2022
Biwij John., Bong Villaroya, Covid, Dr. Kuo, Eve Burns, Ivy Lapidez, Jack Niedenthal, Jean Phillip, Jeffrey Hsiao, Jerel Anitok, Joe Bejang, Newest Marshallese doctors, Oath ceremony, Rodney Catilo, Shuang Ho Hospital, Yih-Gium Cherng
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![In a ceremony last Friday, Drs. Jean Phillip and Jerel Anitok took the Hippocratic oath and received their licenses to practice medicine in the RMI. A large group of family, friends and colleagues joined the program. Photo: Eve Burns. Latest Marshallese docs take oath](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Doctors-oath-9-2.jpg?resize=750%2C350&ssl=1)
EVE BURNS Married to humanity in the middle of a pandemic on a very hot afternoon on a tennis court: It will be unforgettable for the two individuals who received their white coat and took the Hippocratic Oath last Friday. The internship residency program that Drs. Jean Phillip and Jerel Anitok completed is overseen by […]
By Journal on August 25, 2022
Casten Nemra, Covid, David Paul, Hilary Hosia, Hilda Hiene, Jiba Kabua, Joe Bejang, John Silk, Kalani Kaneko, Kenneth Kedi, Nitijela's return
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![Ministers Jiba Kabua, front left, and John Silk huddle during Monday’s Nitijela session, while Nitijela Members David Paul and Casten Nemra are in the back row. The Nitijela dispensed with its usual formal opening ceremony to get straight to business August 22. Photo: Hilary Hosia. Covid dominates Nitijela’s return](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Nitijela-8-26.jpg?resize=750%2C350&ssl=1)
HILARY HOSIA Leaders of the nation began their first Parliament meeting of the August session Monday with a moment of silence to honor the 14 Marshallese who passed away from Covid since the pandemic reached the shores of the RMI August 8. A few minutes into the session, Speaker Kenneth Kedi called for an off air […]
By Journal on June 9, 2022
Alfred Alfred Jr., Brenson Wase, Bruce Bilimon, Carl Ingram, Casten Nemra, David Kabua, Donald Capelle, Eve Burns, ICC, Ingrid Kabua, Jack Ading, Jemi Nashion, Joe Bejang, John Silk, Kessai Note, Kitlang kabua, New Cabinet members, Nitijela, Ota Kisino, Sandy Alfred, Wilbur Heine
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![At the swearing in ceremony June 7 at the International Conference Center, from left: Nitijela Members Jack Ading, Ota Kisino and Joe Bejang with their spouses holding the bibles as they took the oath of office for the Cabinet. Photo: Eve Burns. New Cabinet members sworn in](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cabinet-610.jpg?resize=750%2C350&ssl=1)
Three of the four newly appointed Cabinet ministers were sworn in during a ceremony at the ICC Tuesday morning. Chief Justice of the High Court Carl Ingram with Clerk of Courts Ingrid Kabua officiated at the swearing in. This followed a blessing and then brief remarks from President David Kabua. The President described the Cabinet […]
By Journal on March 24, 2022
Casten Nemra, Chou Mei-wu, David Kabua, David T. Lee, Dr. Tsai Ing-wen, Hsu Szu-chien, Icyang Parod, Jasmine Hsiao, Jeffrey SC Hsiao, Joe Bejang, Joseph Wu, Koo Kwang-ming, Lai Ching-te, Mary Bejang, Neijon Rema Edwards, Taiwan, Taiwan-Marshall Islands Adaptation and Contingency Fund for Climate Change, Terry Nemra, Wellington Koo
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![Taiwan President Tsai Ing-Wen and Marshall Islands President David Kabua, decked out in Marshall Islands-Taiwan flag motif face masks, head into the Presidential Office in Taipei. Taiwan to launch climate fund](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Taiwan-3-25.jpg?resize=750%2C350&ssl=1)
President David Kabua and a delegation left the Marshall Islands Monday afternoon on a Taiwan government-chartered flight to Taipei to launch a five-day state visit. The state visit, at the invitation of the Taiwan government, will run through March 25. This is the President’s first state visit to Taiwan since taking office in 2020. Accompanied […]
By Journal on March 17, 2022
Ceremony, David Kramer, dock, Drile James Kabua, Elmi Kuli, Helenta Bejang Lari, How Bunglick, Joe Bejang, Kalani Kaneko, Laibuj Jerwan, Lee Bejang, Lib Island, Odrikawa Jatios, Risen Anej
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![A Pacific International Inc. vessel is off-loaded at Lib Island last week by local residents carrying boxes and containers across the reef. PII will create a pass through the reef to make access easier. Photo: Joe Bejang. Lib launches big project](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/lib-3-18.jpg?resize=750%2C350&ssl=1)
The small community of Lib Island celebrated the launching of the new Lib Island boat pass dock project with a groundbreaking ceremony last week. The over $1 million project will improve access to Lib, which is a single island surrounded by reef making it difficult to access the island from the ocean. Pacific International Inc. […]
By Journal on January 13, 2022
Brenson Wase, Casten Nemra, David Kabua, David Paul, Dennis Momotaro, FBI, Joe Bejang, John Silk, Kenneth Kedi, Nitijela, PIDB, RMI and USAG-KA repatriation groups, RMI Ports Authority funds, US Federal Aviation Authority, US Government
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![A ceremonial opening session on January 3 launched Nitijela’s first session for 2022. Photo: Eve Burns. Nitijela covers wide ranging issues](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/niti-1-14.jpg?resize=750%2C350&ssl=1)
Late last week and early this week, Nitijela covered a wide range of territory in the daily sessions.Among topics addressed:• President David Kabua is concerned about heavy out-migration to the US by Marshallese. In comments to Nitijela last Thursday, the President pointed out the latest census shows that every populated island in the RMI has seen […]
By Journal on January 14, 2021
David Paul, Hilary Hosia, Hirata Kabua, Jeremy Bartel, Joe Bejang
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![A medical evacuation by Army helicopter of two pregnant women, an elderly man and a child from Lib Island Lib calls, Army responds](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/sp-lep-1-15.jpg?resize=750%2C350&ssl=1)
GIFF JOHNSON A medical evacuation by Army helicopter of two pregnant women, an elderly man and a child from Lib Island this past Sunday was hailed as “extraordinary” by a Kwajalein member of Nitijela. “On a moment notice, a humanitarian and selfless act by Colonel Jeremy Bartel and his team saved six lives by dispatching […]
By Journal on July 23, 2020
AKIA CAFE, Bruce Bilimon, Carson Sigrah, Giff Johnson, Hilary Hosia, Hirata Kabua, Jeremy Bartel, Joe Bejang, Junior Aini, Kalani Kaneko, Kitlang kabua, Peterson JIbas, Reginald White, RRE, Tony Aisaia, USAG-KA
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![US Army Garrison, Kwajalein Atoll Commander Col. Jeremy Bartel (top left) hosted the Nitijela Health, Education and Social Affairs Committee for a tour of Covid-19 quarantine and isolation facilities on Kwajalein earlier this month. At the table, facing Bartel are, from top: Member of Parliament (MP) Tony Aisaia of Namu, Chairman MP Kalani Kaneko, Vice Speaker Peterson Jibas, MP Joe Bejang of Lib, Foreign Affairs representative Junior Aini, and Education Minister Kitlang Kabua. Photo: Hilary Hosia. Close call on Covid](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/USAG-KA.gif?resize=750%2C350&ssl=1)
GIFF JOHNSON The US Army Garrison, Kwajalein Atoll had its first long-distance brush with coronavirus when one of the 15 base workers scheduled to return this week tested positive for Covid-19 in Honolulu prior to departing for Kwajalein. Contract tracing by Army authorities identified three others in the intending repatriation group to have had contact […]
By Journal on April 23, 2020
Hilary Hosia, Joe Bejang, Lib islands, Majuro, NTA, Red
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![Lib moves into high gear Lib moves into high gear](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Lib-04-24-20.jpg?resize=750%2C350&ssl=1)
HILARY HOSIA By the time of this publication, Lib Parliament Member Joe Bejang and a unique group of go-getters have begun working on “operation Lib safe passage.” The team, which includes the Environment Protection Authority (EPA), Land and Survey Division from the Ministry of Works, Infrastructure and Utilities, National Telecommunications Authority (NTA) and Marshall Islands […]