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The Cabinet has approved a new set of regulations for port pilots, overhauling a system that has long been an issue identified in RMI government audits.The first ever Shipping Pilotage Regulations were approved earlier this month by Cabinet, replacing a set of regulations that were never officially “promulgated.”
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The commander of the US Pacific Fleet, Admiral Robert Willard, joined President Kessai Note and other government VIPs in welcoming the USS Peleliu to Majuro on Wednesday this week. Willard, one of the highest ranking US military officials to visit Majuro in many years, made his first trip to the Marshall Islands to be here for the Peleliu’s last stop on a six-nation humanitarian tour of the Asia and Pacific region. “It was a big experiment for us to send a large amphibious ship to six nations” on a humanitarian mission with doctors and engineers on board, Willard said at the welcome ceremony at the capital building Wednesday. The mission of the vessel provided the Navy the “opportunity to contribute to making the lives of our Pacific neighbors a little healthier and happier,” Willard said. The experiment with the USS Peleliu was “a great success” and discussions are already underway among top Navy brass to continue this “at least” on an annual basis.
There is a 16 percent increase in the number of voters for the November national election, according to the Electoral Administration. But what is really interesting is that some islands have seen their voting lists skyrocket by more than 40 percent as thousands of people re-registered or new voters have signed up since the 2003 election. The three atolls seeing the biggest jump in voters are in the Ratak Chain: Utrik 62 percent (from 726 to 1,173 voters), Wotje 47 percent (from 403 to 592), and Maloelap 43 percent (from 931 to 1,334).
seven percent
Speaker Litokwa Tomeing introduced a bill Wednesday last week to cut the salaries and allowances of Nitijela members by seven percent.
Tomeing was joined by many members of the opposition as well as Senators Tomaki Juda, Alik Alik, Norman Matthew and Tadashi Lometo.
President Kessai Note heads for a visit to the USS Peleliu on Wednesday flanked by commanding officer of the Peleliu Captain Ed Rhoades and Pacific Partnership mission commander Commodore Bruce Stewart. Photo: Douglas Henry.
Dozens of American volunteer teachers who were supposed to start teaching this week on remote islands have also been stranded in Majuro, the capital, with the halt of all domestic air services.
Bikini Atoll Divers refunded about $25,000 to a group of European and American divers who flew into the Marshall Islands last week but could not get to Bikini for a week of scuba diving, said Niedenthal.
Shown here are just a few of the stories that appeared in the August 31, 2007 issue of the Marshall Islands Journal.