Journal 12/28/1982
P1 Majuro welcomes 748
Resources and Development Minister Kessai Note revealed today at the arrival ceremony for Air Marshall Islands new 748 aircraft that the Cabinet recently approved acquiring one or two more new planes within the next six months. The planes under consideration are De Havilland Twin Otters, which would replace the 12 and 16 passenger Nomads. A crowd of about 300 watched the arrival of the 748.
P1 Jaluit jepta best?
Here is how we rated the jeptas we saw and heard at Uliga Protestant Church on Christmas Day. Best songs/most professional in their singing: Jaluit jepta; Best beat: Jerry Lakabung jepta; Most original/historical meaning: Ebon jepta. The Delap Elementary School got our Most Enthusiastic Group Award. — Akio Heine
Journal 12/27/1991
P4 So who’s good?
Talking with Jiba Kabua the other day, he commented on the Ralik Ratak Democratic Party ad in the paper with the MIDB loan information. Jiba said he was out of town when the ad appeared but when he got back he said people were telling him the ad said he’d received a loan and painted him as a bad guy. He said he didn’t mind the information being in the paper because it’s public. But, he said, when it gets used in a political debate it takes on a different flavor. Anyway, he said, as for people who say he’s a bad guy because of the ad, “I want to ask: Who’s a good guy?”
P8 Lomor nets first foreign fishing vessel
The Marshall Islands patrol vessel Lomor has netted its first foreign fishing vessel for allegedly fishing without a license in the country’s 200 mile ocean economic zone. A Korean fishing was charged last Thursday with illegal fishing and faces possible fines of $2.75 million.
P10 Akaka: ‘We have a job to do’
“There is a sense of commitment” on the part of the US Congress to resolve problems left over from the American nuclear tests in the 1950s, US Senator Daniel Akaka told the Journal in Majuro last week. When can the people return to Bikini and Rongelap is a primary question that needs answering, he said. But until that answer is forthcoming, “there are things that must be done,” he said.
P23 Booming out over Peacesat
“Youth to Youth in Health obviously have good lungs. We received you loud and clear.” So said the radio controller in Hawaii last Friday when the Marshalls joined in the Peacesat Music Festival. The festival joined 20 Pacific Islands in music and song.
Journal 12/30/2011
P5 PNA the bright light of 2011
In looking at amazing accomplishments for 2011, the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA) has proved the cliché that there is strength in numbers. Since the office was set up in early 2010, PNA has: Implemented and enforced a “vessel day scheme” for selling and trading fishing days that has more than doubled money paid to the eight members; and gained approval to launch a program that is expected to produce higher revenue for tuna caught without the use of fish aggregation devices, aiding PNA’s management of tuna stocks by putting a financial incentive for fishing boats to catch tuna in a sustainable manner.