GIFF JOHNSON There is a striking development in regards to the fire that destroyed the Nitijela. In the Executive Order declaring a state of disaster issued by Acting President Kalani Kaneko on August 28, two days after the fire, among a list of action directives to government ministries and agencies was the directive to Marshall […]
GIFF JOHNSON The day after last week Tuesday’s fire consumed Nitijela, parliament staff were already setting up the ICC conference hall as a temporary Nitijela meeting space. Monday this week, the Appropriations Committee, with Chairman Jack Ading at the helm, completed the final series of FY2026 budget hearings from the ICC meeting location. Nitijela staff […]
Pacific International Inc. (PII) mobilized for a significant outer island construction project earlier this month. A PII construction crew has set up shop at Bikarej Island in Arno Atoll to begin construction of a long-awaited boat channel project. Bikarej, which sits at the northwest corner of one of the biggest atolls in RMI, is a […]
GIFF JOHNSON Tuesday morning, while the fire still burned at Nitijela, the RMI Cabinet held an emergency meeting at the MIMRA headquarters conference room to discuss its response. By mid-afternoon, President Hilda Heine had issued a short statement posted to the President’s Office Facebook page describing the situation and the government’s next steps. President Heine […]
A “game-changing” tuna loader arrived in Majuro and is now set up and ready for operations at the Pacific International Inc. dock. The equipment is specially designed to unload tuna from a purse seiner and funnel it through an extended conveyor belt into a freezer container at dock side. The equipment is expected to cut […]
KAREN EARNSHAW After a few shipping delays, work deconstructing the capital building is now underway with a vengeance and is expected to be “completed in two months,” Pacific International Inc.’s Executive Project Manager Bobby Muller said Monday. PII brought in a big yellow “heavy excavator” to do the muscle work on tearing down the iconic, […]
The aging RMI capital building is scheduled to be demolished starting at the beginning of next month. This is the first step toward the building of a new capital facility for the RMI government. “We’re targeting the first week of February to start demolition works at the Capital Building,” said Pacific International Inc.’s Senior Project […]
After years of sitting dormant, largely unused and deteriorating, the former RMI capital building is slated for demolition to make way for construction of a new capital building. Cabinet issued an instruction to the Ministry of Works, Infrastructure and Utilities to move the plan forward by engaging Pacific International Inc. to perform the demolition work. […]
The large-scale airport paving and improvement project is expected to get underway in late July or early August, according to contractor Pacific International Inc. PII since early this year has been mobilizing its equipment and facilities in anticipation of the airport work. A large asphalt plant has been set up a mile to the west […]
Two studies about the Marshall Islands by the global fish value chain development initiative FISH4ACP show that investing in cold storage facilities and tuna loading equipment can transform the Marshall Islands into a hub for tuna containerization, boosting economic growth and employment, while managing the environmental impact. “Tuna accounts for nearly all fisheries production and […]
