Karen Earnshaw

Andrew’s plays help hundreds

Andrew’s plays help hundreds

KAREN EARNSHAW The lives of many hundreds of Majuro’s youth were dramatically changed for the better over the past 20 years because a woman in New Hampshire was expanding her family. “One of my colleagues was adopting a Marshallese child,” Professor Andrew Garrod said at Dar Café Monday morning. “To do this, she flew to […]

Acting is ‘magical’ to Wilmer

Acting is ‘magical’ to Wilmer

KAREN EARNSHAW “When I was a kid, my father told me there was to be a play and that we should go see it,” said Wilmer Joel, then a Rita Elementary School student. It was 2014 and the musical was Fiddler on the Roof: “I was captivated. I felt a magical tingling feeling as I […]

Oliver! crew hard at rehearsal

Oliver! crew hard at rehearsal

KAREN EARNSHAW Rehearsals for the musical Oliver! are in full swing and going well at the Marshall Islands High School library each weekday afternoon and on Saturdays and we hear that the construction and painting of the sets is also coming along nicely. Producers Professor Andrew Garrod and Bonny Taggart and the rest of the […]

Maui islanders get fire help

Maui islanders get fire help

KAREN EARNSHAW At least nine and possibly 12 Marshallese families lost their homes and all their belongings in the Lahaina, Maui, fire three weeks ago and 90 percent of the Marshallese workers on the Hawaiian island have lost their jobs, according to the Executive Director of the Marshallese Community Organization of Hawaii, Jendrikdrik Paul.  “The […]

Soccer gets moving in RMI

Soccer gets moving in RMI

KAREN EARNSHAW The Marshall Islands Soccer Federation has “huge ambitions” to be able to develop soccer in the RMI following the success of a series of soccer camps held recently at Delap Park. The federation’s guest soccer coach, Britain’s Lloyd Owers, told the Journal that “we now have huge ambitions to develop this further in […]

Child vaccine rollout in July

Child vaccine rollout in July

KAREN EARNSHAW The Ministry of Health and Human Services will begin providing the Covid-19 vaccine for children aged six months to five years on Friday July 15, according to RMI Director of Public Health Dr. Frank Underwood. This follows approval of the vaccines for young children by the US Food and Drug Administration late last […]

Majuro maritime center grows

Majuro maritime center grows

KAREN EARNSHAW The construction of the maritime facility next to Uliga Dock kicked off in January: Six months later, one of the project organizers, Raffael Held, told the Journal “the construction of the maritime training complex, which is next to the Marshall Islands Shipping Corporation’s office, is making good progress.” The main purpose of the […]

World Tuna Day bash in Majuro

World Tuna Day bash in Majuro

KAREN EARNSHAW The Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority hosted a World Tuna Day 2022 celebration in the HQ parking lot on May 14, the second year it has celebrated the big day at its new facilities. The biggest feature of the afternoon was the slicing and dicing of, what else?, tuna, with the competition divisions […]

Bravo survivor Nerje dies at 74

Bravo survivor Nerje dies at 74

EVE BURNS Nerje Joseph, 74, who died recently at Majuro hospital, was one of a dwindling number of Rongelap Islanders who were on Rongelap or Ailinginae on March 1, 1954 when the US government detonated the Bravo hydrogen bomb at Bikini. Bravo spewed a snowstorm of radioactive fallout on Nerje and the other 85 people […]

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