Journal 11/6/1987 P1 Friday night baby boomIf you think the Marshalls has a high birth rate, you’re right. And after Friday’s record 12 births in slightly more than 24 hours, it may be event higher. Majuro hospital averages between two and two-and-a-half new borns a day. P3 Young journalistsThe first issue of the Marshall Islands […]
Journal 10/16/1987 P4 No se, señorDan Wales’ neighbors are like the three monkeys that hear no evil, see no evil and speak no evil. Over the weekend Dan’s fence disappeared. Eight sheets of roofing tin, that keep yeast walkers and gas sniffers from using his yard as a meeting place, just vanished in thin air. […]
WILMER JOEL In veneration of Presidents Day, a day of commemorating was held last Wednesday and again Saturday for this nation’s late founding father, Iroojlaplap and First President Amata Kabua as well as other presidents who succeeded the presidency. Marshall Islands Presidents:Late Iroojlaplap and President Amata Kabua 1979-1996 Late Iroojlaplap and President Imata Kabua 1997-2000 […]
GIFF JOHNSON Mattlan Zackhras, a four-term member of Nitijela who was a key figure in successful grassroots community development on Namdrik Atoll and who the past two years has been outspoken globally on the need for climate action, died this week in Taipei. Zackhras, 47, who has represented Namdrik Atoll in Nitijela since January 2004, […]
HILARY HOSIA Republic of China Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs Bruce Linghu paid his respects to the family of late Senator/Iriojlaplap Jurelang Zedkaia in Ajeltake following his attendance Monday at President Casten Nemra’s inauguration. Linghu was Taiwan’s ambassador to the RMI from 2007 to 2010, a period that included the beginning of former President Zedkaia’s […]
In a landmark ruling, the RMI Supreme Court upheld a High Court ruling that land created by government landfill on submerged areas below the high water mark are owned by the government. The order was issued last week in the case brought by the late Jurelang Zedkaia and Tolbwij Toring against the Marshalls Energy Company […]
Flags were lowered to half mast and a month of national mourning was declared on October 10 to honor former Marshall Islands President and Majuro paramount chief Jurelang Zedkaia. Zedkaia, 65, died in Majuro October 7 of an apparent heart attack. He was elected President of the Marshall Islands in 2009, following a vote of […]
