Simon Jamore

END has a beginning

END has a beginning

The Extraordinary Needs Distribution (END) Committee has officially initiated the new development program funding stream with a launch ceremony last week Friday at Marshall Islands Resort’s Melele Room. This new program, established through the Compact of Free Association by the US and RMI governments, is specifically designed to deliver needed support in addressing the continuing […]

VIP Kili visit

VIP Kili visit

HILARY HOSIA Action speaks louder than words. This seems to be the marching order for President Hilda Heine and her Cabinet following a one-day visit to Kili Island last Friday. That day before, Thursday, the Heine administration declared a state of emergency to address the immediate needs of the Kili community, which has been experiencing […]

People protest money use

People protest money use

GIFF JOHNSON The first demonstration in Majuro in many years happened Monday at the Kili-Bikini-Ejit Town Hall in Uliga. All demonstrations in the Marshall Islands, a country whose people are noted for “speaking under the waves,” are unprecedented in some ways. They are also relatively few and far between. Hospital staff demonstrated and then went […]