Bikinians get unusual payment
![Pallets of rice bags were stacked up at the Bikini Town Hall in Majuro last week as part of the first quarterly compensation payment and food distribution in 14 months. Photo: Jack Niedenthal. Bikinians get unusual payment](https://i0.wp.com/marshallislandsjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/KBE-2-16.jpg?resize=750%2C350&ssl=1)
The KBE Local Government handed out the first quarterly compensation payments to Bikinians in 14 months this past Friday. Since the late 1980s, quarterly payments had been provided to Bikinians like clockwork, based on the Bikini Claims Trust Fund, which was capitalized by the first Compact of Free Association’s nuclear test compensation section. But money […]