By Journal on April 27, 2023
Air Kiribati, Air Marshall Islands, AUD$16.9 million ($11.4 million), Australia-Palau Connector, Australian government, Jerry Kramer, Katrina Murray, Kessai Note, Nauru Airlines, Pacific Flights Program, Papua New Guinea
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Since starting its Pacific Flights Program in FY2020, the Australian government has spent over AUD$16.9 million ($11.4 million) connecting 13 Pacific countries and Australia through seven airlines facilitating over 600 flights that have moved over 45,000 people and over 4,000 tons of cargo including critical vaccines and medical supplies. It is currently assisting the Nauru […]
By Journal on January 26, 2023
Covid, El Niño, Glen Joseph, Hilary Hosia, La Niña, MIMRA, Papua New Guinea, rebound, Solomon Islands, tuna
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GIFF JOHNSON MIMRA records show that tuna transshipment in Majuro rebounded following the disastrous first year of Covid in 2020, when transshipment plummeted by 60 percent compared to the year before. “Are they coming back?” MIMRA Director Glen Joseph asked rhetorically about the purse seine transshipment operations. “Yes, but a review of the data shows […]
By Journal on October 27, 2022
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Tuna transshipments continued at a slow pace in September. But the 14 conducted last month pushed the annual total to date over 200 — the second year in a row showing a rebound from the Covid-impacted 2020, when transshipments fell from over 400 a year to 175. With the 14 in September, Majuro has now […]
By Journal on August 12, 2022
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Journal 8/16/1985 P1 Time to move Urban renewal is coming to the downtown area of Majuro with the government announcing its plans to remove the dilapidated buildings knowns as the “Labor Camp” from the central business district in Uliga. The wood and corrugated metal roof barrack-style buildings have been a fixture in downtown since they […]
By Journal on December 23, 2021
David Kabua, fisheries, Glen Joseph, John Silk, Kiribati, Les Clark, Ludwig Kumoru, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, PNA, PNAO, Sangaa Clark, tuna, Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission annual session, which concluded on December 6.
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New PNA Office CEO Dr. Sangaa Clark, her husband Les Clark and MIMRA Director Glen Joseph made a courtesy call on President David Kabua and his Cabinet members earlier in the month. The RMI is playing two roles in relation to the Parties to the Nauru Agreement, said Joseph: As a member of the PNA […]
By Journal on June 22, 2018
Glen Joseph, Papua New Guinea, purse seiners, rebates, tuna
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GIFF JOHNSON The Marshall Islands is watching with interest a new commercial tuna management system launched by Papua New Guinea earlier this year. The recently implemented system by PNG’s National Fisheries Authority rewards purse seiners for landing tuna to be processed on shore in PNG because this increases job opportunities at tuna canneries and processing […]
By Journal on May 24, 2018
Air Niugini, Hilda Heine, PALM 8, Papua New Guinea, Peter O'Neill
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A historic moment in the relationship between the Marshall Islands and Papua New Guinea was realized in Japan over the weekend with the signing of an Air Service Agreement between the two governments. The signing was held at the Spa Resort Hawaiians-Hotel Hawaiians in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. This was the venue of the eighth Pacific […]
By Journal on March 9, 2018
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Eight PNA countries plus Tokelau celebrated Wednesday night with a groundbreaking ceremony for a new four-story headquarters building, set to replace the old Won Hai Shien building on Uliga Dock on Majuro. Ministers from the member countries donned helmets and vests and shoveled dirt, commemorating the event. The event was held in the lead up […]
By Journal on February 9, 2018
Brenson Wase, Cook Islands, FSM, Iris Claus, Kiribati, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Rebecca Lathrop, Richard Neves, RMI, Solomon Islands, Tokelau, Tuvalu
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REBECCA LATHROP A workshop, “Forecasting Managing Fishing Revenues,” opened in Majuro on Monday. In his opening remarks RMI Minister of Finance Brenson Wase welcomed the group of 49 participants and stressed the importance and timeliness of the workshop. Wase pointed out that as fishing revenue has increased dramatically over the past ten years and with the […]
By Journal on November 20, 2015
Dr. Transform Aqorau, longliner, Papua New Guinea, PNA, Tokelau, VDS
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The PNA plan to implement a Vessel Day Scheme (VDS) for the longliner fishing industry in the western and central Pacific received a boost recently with the agreement of Papua New Guinea and Tokelau to join the five PNA nations that had triggered the plan at the end of last year. This brings six of […]