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Rimajol |
5th Annual Marshallese Education Day
Booj Lolatat Non Jelalokjen
Saturday, May 12, 2012 enaj bojak in bar komman raan eo elap nan rijkuul ro ilo Hawaii. Makutkut kein renaj komman ilo Ala Moana Beach Park ilo awa kane 9:00 jibon waj nan 2:00 relap in Jadede ne.
Kom aolep ruanene in koba tok ippam nan celebrate i raan in am..
Nan melele ko rellap lok, Jouij im email e tok kem ilo marshalleseeducationday@gmail.com elane jab eokwe call e tok numba ne 808-723-0392[/i:ec65914ed2 ... :: Read more |
Posted by Rimajol on 05-01 3:01AM (338 views)
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Pacific Radio/Forum |
Huge wage cuts worry Marshall Islands college staff
A major pay cut being implemented at the College of the Marshall Islands is alarming Marshallese staff, who this week appealed the salary slashes to the College President Carl Hacker.
Eleven Marshallese staff members are affected by the cutback that will slash take home pay by up to 60 percent.
Workers say they are angered not only by the college plan to slash salaries without any type of transition to the significantly reduced wages, but also by the lack of personal communication to workers who, in some cases, have been with the college for 20 years.
The salary reductions affecting secretarial, custodial and security staff members, are to take effect when existing contracts expire.
Under the cutbacks one long time employee who is now paid 27 thousand 500 US dollars a year would lose nearly 9 thousand dollars and a secretary earning close to 1 ... :: Read more |
Posted by Marshall Islands on 05-18 3:34PM (74 views)
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Education |
First Marshallese deaf student graduates with 4-year degree
Marshall Islander Mela Langinbelang has done something no one else from the Marshall Islands has done: she graduated this week with a bachelor’s degree in deaf studies from Gallaudet University in Washington, DC.
Langinbelang, who was born and raised on Ebeye Island, is deaf. The key to her success, she said, is having “parents who believed in me and my deaf sister and didn’t give us the chance to pity ourselves. The importance of education was always emphasized.”
She lived on Ebeye until she was 11, then attended schools in Hawaii before transferring to Gallaudet University in Washington D.C., the only university in which all programs and services are specifically designed to accommodate deaf and hard of hearing students.
Before returning to the Marshall Islands, Langinbelang said she wants to earn a master’s degree to be “more confident that I w ... :: Read more |
Posted by Marshall Islands on 05-17 5:45PM (180 views)
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Pacific News |
Marshalls appeals fishery director hiring process
Marshall Islands officials are appealing a recruitment process for the head of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency that eliminated Marshall Islands candidate Gerald Zackios from consideration.
The short-listing of five of 10 candidates for the top FFA job has “raised concerns” and prompted the Marshall Islands to lodge a formal complaint to Forum Fisheries Agency officials questioning the process and requesting that all 10 candidates be interviewed, said Sam Lanwi Jr., the deputy director of the Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority.
Agency Director Glen Joseph is in Tonga this week for the Forum Fisheries officials’ meeting that is reviewing the issue in the lead up to a July ministers’ meeting that will decide who will be the new FFA director.
Lanwi said this year, the FFA changed its hiring process to engage a Papua New Guinea-based f ... :: Read more |
Posted by Marshall Islands on 05-17 5:39PM (190 views)
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Bikini Rongelap Enewetak Utrik |
WE Say: Injustices on Marshallese continue
‘While successive United States administrations have addressed their concerns with periodic funding for cleanup operations, the people have by and large been neglected. Thousands of affected islanders have been repeatedly shifted from island to island, in the process exacerbating their multiple problems. A Marshall Islands petition to the US Congress, based on updated scientific estimates of the damage filed in 2000, has failed to elicit a full response from the United States lawmakers’
The United States’ renewed interest in the region in the wake of big Asian powers digging in their heels deeper in the Pacific Islands and dropping their heavy anchors in the vast, rich ocean around them is what may bring closure to a serious, long-standing problem in the Marshall Islands.
From 1946 to 1958, some 67 nuclear and thermonuclear weapons were tested and detonated across a v ... :: Read more |
Posted by Marshall Islands on 05-16 5:13PM (321 views)
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Pacific News |
First line of guard: Envoy
WITHOUT effective and efficient Customs administration, individual governments will not be able to meet their policy objectives with respect to revenue collection, trade facilitation, and the protection of society from a wide range of social and national security threats.
These were the words of Marshall Islands Ambassador to Fiji Amatlain Kabua at the closing of a two-week Regional Investigation Management workshop which ended in Nadi on Saturday.
"Therefore, Customs' contribution to national development is potentially enormous and can make a significant difference to the lives of many impoverished people within our region," Ms Kabua said.
"To this end there is a critical need for co-operation and connectivity between Customs administrations as they are the 'first line of defence' for goods crossing borders, making it vital to combat all forms ... :: Read more |
Posted by Marshall Islands on 05-15 12:41PM (342 views)
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Improving access to safe drinking water
Improving access to safe drinking water in the Marshall Islands
Australia is helping improve access to fresh, safe drinking water for every household on Ebeye, one of the major islands in the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Island Affairs, Richard Marles, said Australian-supplied water tanks were part of a continuing commitment to improve water and sanitation in the Marshall Islands.
"This year, Australia is supporting the provision of 220 water tanks on Ebeye, in addition to 150 water tanks supplied last year," Mr Marles said.
"That means all 12,000 Marshallese on Ebeye will soon have the capacity to store fresh, safe drinking water," Mr Marles said.
Lack of fresh drinking water is a problem felt across the Marshall Islands and causes sig ... :: Read more |
Posted by Marshall Islands on 05-15 12:30PM (365 views)
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Marshall Islands News |
Tobolar nabs Taiwan deal
Tobolar will be making its first shipment of copra cake to Taiwan later this month as a result of the RMI Embassy in Taipei connecting officials from Grobest Holdings Ltd. and the Majuro coconut plant.
In February, RMI Ambassador to Taiwan Phillip Kabua learned that the Taiwan company Grobest was looking to buy copra meal so Kabua passed the information onto Tobolar and government officials in Majuro. “The Grobest Company recently revealed a plan to buy copra cake to maximize production of fish feed for customers engaged in aquaculture in Taiwan and abroad,” Kabua said. The company requested a conference with Tobolar and the embassy arranged it.
“The outcome of the teleconference was quite encouraging and went beyond expectations,” Kabua said. Following the discussion, samples of the copra cake from Tobolar were tested and analyzed by Grobest with good results.
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Posted by Marshall Islands on 05-13 2:56AM (454 views)
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Pacific Radio/Forum |
Forum trade ministers discuss free trade in Majuro
The seventh Forum Trade Ministers’ Meeting has opened in Majuro with the Marshall Islands President Christopher Loeak calling for speedier negotiations on free trade deals with Australia, New Zealand and the European Union.
He says the region’s failure to reach agreement is depriving it of real benefits.
The meeting has brought together trade ministers from more than a dozen Pacific countries for discussions that will feed recommendations to Pacific Islands Forum heads of state when they meet later in the year.
The Forum Secretary General Tuiloma Neroni Slade has told the ministers he hopes free trade agreements will drive economic growth in the region.
Mr Slade identified a range of technical issues - rules of origin, labour mobility, customs regulations, sanitary standards and others - that need to be fleshed out in the ongoing negotiati ... :: Read more |
Posted by Marshall Islands on 05-11 8:52PM (465 views)
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US missile base in Marshalls cuts staff
The US military is cutting back staff at its missile testing facility in the Marshall Islands as the Army implements new contracting requirements.
Marshall Islands officials have asked the Army command at Kwajalein to do its best to reassign Marshall Islanders losing security positions to other jobs.
The base has experienced budget and personnel cuts over the past four years that have reduced the Marshall Islands workforce from about 1,200 to fewer than 900.
The Army’s Acting Public Affairs Officer, Mike Sakaio, says one change requires that certain law enforcement functions be performed by Department of the Army civilian employees rather than by contractors.
Mr Sakaio also says the US Army Kwajalein Atoll has recently added nearly a dozen new construction jobs through its contract partners in the last six months and will assist Marshallese ... :: Read more |
Posted by Marshall Islands on 05-11 8:33PM (518 views)
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Pacific Radio/Forum |
Micronesian countries top Asia/Pacific press freedom index
The Freedom House annual press freedom report has listed Palau and the Marshall Islands at the top of 40 nations in the Asia/Pacific region in media freedom.
The Federated States of Micronesia comes in at number five.
A former Pacific Magazine publisher Floyd Takeuchi says history has shown that media freedom is central to the development of democratic institutions in all three of the independent nations in the Western Pacific.
Mr Takeuchi says in his view, the impact of newspapers in the Micronesian region is greater today than it was in the 1970s.
Francis Hezel, an American Jesuit priest who in the 1970s founded the Micronesian Seminar think tank, says the most important factor for governments in the north Pacific to support media freedom is the reputation of the government itself.
He says to withhold public information woul ... :: Read more |
Posted by Marshall Islands on 05-10 5:08PM (472 views)
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Pacific News |
EU nations get cold feet over climate change fund
EU nations have yet to come up with a plan on how to fill a multi-billion euro fund to help tackle climate change, even as the region's executive body hosts talks with countries likely to bear the brunt of extreme weather.
The European Union recommitted to providing 7.2 billion euros (5.8 billion pounds) for the fund over 2010-12, according to draft conclusions seen by Reuters ahead of a meeting of EU finance ministers next week.
But after that, how much cash will flow is unclear as the text, drafted against the backdrop of acute economic crisis in the euro zone, states the need to "scale up climate finance from 2013 to 2020", but does not specify how.
The Green Climate Fund aims to channel up to $100 billion globally per year by 2020 to help developing countries deal with the impact of climate ... :: Read more |
Posted by Marshall Islands on 05-08 3:54AM (526 views)
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Marshall Islands News |
Phillip confirms close South Korea relations
Foreign Minister Phillip Muller met with South Korean counterpart Kim Sung-Hwan last week in Seoul. He was joined by Minister in Assistance Tony deBrum, Kwajalein Senator Jeban Riklon, Lynda Muller and President’s Office staff Bruce Kijiner. “South Korea is becoming an economic powerhouse in Asia with an impeccable track record on low carbon green growth approach to development and a very vocal voice in the international community on climate change issues,” said Kijiner. “South Korea provided support for the joint RMI-Columbia University Symposium on Legal Aspects of Climate Change held last year in New York City.”
He also said both RMI and South Korea have partnered on proposals for global action plans on climate change and continue to do so at the UN and other international venues.
“Minister deBrum and I are heading to Bonn, Germany and Brussels, Belgium for series of climatechange follow ... :: Read more |
Posted by Marshall Islands on 05-07 3:47AM (525 views)
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Pacific Radio/Forum |
Regional trade ministers to meet in Marshall Islands
Pacific Islands Forum trade ministers meet this week in Majuro in the Marshall Islands and will further advance legislation safeguarding traditional knowledge.
The meeting, which follows an officials’ meeting, will also look at progress at the Forum’s four trade and investment offices - in Auckland, Sydney, Beijing and Tokyo.
The ministers will also discuss the scheme for economic unity in the Pacific, PACEER PLUS, and
The Forum secretary general, Tuiloma Neroni Slade, says the traditional knowedge action plan began in 2009 and six Pacific countries have since developed policy and legislation to protect it.
Now he says it is anticipated they will focus on those countries yet to develop traditional knowledge policies.
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Posted by Marshall Islands on 05-07 3:35AM (513 views)
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Pacific News |
Majuro fraud trial in Marshalls to start Monday
A trial for three Marshall Islands government workers charged with conspiring to steal money from the national government is scheduled to open in the High Court this Monday.
Jury selection for the three defendants — Steve Samuel, Donnie Andrike and Nella Nashion — is expected to begin Monday morning and, depending on how quickly selection is accomplished, prosecution and defense opening statements to the jury could follow on the same day.
Cases involving the three defendants were joined for a single trial. This is one of a series of criminal prosecutions started by the government in late 2010 in a fraud investigation that alleges that more than $500,000, mostly from the United States government, was stolen by about 10 people. Monday’s trial involves alleged theft of Ministry of Health funding that was paid to R&L company for equipment that was not provided.
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Posted by Marshall Islands on 05-03 8:39PM (581 views)
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