The United Church of Christ (UCC) has over 2,000 participants in its youth conference in Majuro this year. The large number represents UCC church chapters from all across the US, Guam and Marshall Islands. A youth conference is held in Majuro every two years. The conference runs for two weeks. Posing for the Journal are […]
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 […]
Majuro Atoll Local Government joined with Assumption Schools, the Taiwan Embassy and numerous others to bless and open the new sports court next to the Uliga school Tuesday afternoon. The covered basketball/volleyball court was funded jointly by Taiwan and MALGov. It was a two-part event: opening of the new court and a soft opening for […]
The Marshallese version of the Olympic Games is Christmas jepta biit dancing. The amount of competition and dissing has always been apart of the jepta performances at Christmas time.Jeptas had the audience laughing throughout the Christmas Day and the next day at churches throughout Majuro.Though some jeptas were satisfied with their performance, others were surely […]
Despite the low number of jepta (group) performances and attendees at the United Church of Christ mother church in Uliga on Christmas day, the spirit of giving remained intact. Whether out-migration or the fact that Majuro has numerous churches simultaneously hosting jeptas
Six weeks after a fire destroyed the DAR store, warehouse and apartments in Uliga, construction is moving for a new building to get
GIFF JOHNSON One of Majuro’s oldest and best-known local businesses was hit by a major fire, destroying its retail store, warehouse, beauty salon, seamstress shop, business office, Israel consulate office, and second-floor apartments in the early morning hours of October 8.
Journal 8/6/1973 P7 TT to study alcohol abuse problem The Headquarters Division of Community Development reports that a contract is being prepared with James R. Leonard Associates to undertake a study on the problem of alcohol abuse in the TT and how it relates to the growing problem of juvenile delinquency. P9 Independence or statehood […]
An Asian woman was brutally murdered Tuesday in Majuro at her business-home just a stone’s throw away from the National Police Station in Uliga. Her body was found Tuesday night by friends who called police. Majuro hospital emergency ward declared 44-year old Chinmei Wang as dead on arrival at 11pm Tuesday night. Wang reportedly had […]
Marshall Islands social media was atwitter last week with stories about an attempted armed bank robbery in Majuro aborted by national police intervention. But while there was a gun, the Bank of Marshall Islands Uliga branch turned out to be a conveniently located hideout for the gun, not a target for robbery, said Marshall Islands […]
