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R&D Minister John Silk, MIMRA director Glen Joseph and Bobby Muller are representing the Marshall Islands at the annual Tuna Commission meeting in Guam this week. They’ve proposed a plan to halt all transshipment of fish at sea that would require catches to be landed in ports and counted — a plan that has reportedly been well received by many Tuna Commission members.
Customs training workshops
The Ministry of Finance is launching a double training next Wednesday — one for its customs officers and one for businesses. Assistant secretary for customs, tax and revenue Bruce Bilimon said the training program relates to the plans to automate and modernize the customs operation.
New resort to open early 2008
The atoll of Rongelap will early in 2008 join the growing tourism sector in the Marshall Islands with the opening of four new bungalows. The bungalows are situated on the lagoon side of Rongelap Island with picturesque views and a long white sand beach fringed with palm trees. There are three standard cabins with two double beds, solar hot water and a bar fridge. The deluxe has king size beds and a kitchenette.
Okney is receiver
Despite a MALGov motion to halt or reconsider his receivership order, Judge Richard Hickson ruled that the motion “adds nothing except further delay.” Hickson rejected the MALGov motion on Friday, his last day as a judge in the RMI, and issued an order appointing Nuclear Claims Tribunal official Philip Okney as the receiver to sort out the local government’s taxes due to the Marshall Islands Social Security Administration.
Kids will have a ball
The Harlem Ambassadors touch down in RMI next week for their first basketball games here in six years.
Ebeye basketball fans will enjoy some exciting slam-dunking fun next Thursday, and Majuro audiences will get to see the team next Saturday and Sunday at the ECC. Bank of Marshall Islands is sponsoring the visit to Kwajalein.
Ebeye basketball fans will enjoy some exciting slam-dunking fun next Thursday, and Majuro audiences will get to see the team next Saturday and Sunday at the ECC. Bank of Marshall Islands is sponsoring the visit to Kwajalein.
Lade Majic (second from left) is leading a Harlem Ambassadors team that will play in Ebeye next Thursday and in Majuro Saturday and Sunday.
Which will it be? UDP or UPP or some other set of initials? That’s the big question swirling around the Marshall Islands since late last week and early this week. With the current absence of any word from the Electoral Administration on unofficial results of votes counted more than a week ago, and domestic absentee ballot tabulation starting Wednesday afternoon this week, the outcome of some races is still not resolved. But that has not stopped both parties from claiming victory from the November 19 election — and it has sparked the formation of a new party (see page 18 for United Democratic Party and United People’s Party statements). Machinations are at fever pitch in two areas of Majuro as opposition-aligned senators-elect, candidates and supporters hunker down at RRE’s Kibendrikdrik room for daily meetings and strategy sessions, while across town government-aligned senators-elect, candidates and supporters worked on their plan of attack.
She expressed serious concern over three Majuro voting box totals not being included in the totals released last week, and asked Alik to immediately correct “this unbelievable and unimaginable irresponsible action by members of your staff.” Matthew, who is the apparent winner from unofficial results available to the Journal on Wednesday this week, said that Alik should consult with poll watchers “who seem to have a more complete and accurate record.”
She did not want a recount, but rather asked that the tallies from the boxes not included be added in to the overall Majuro vote total for Utrik. She expressed concern that these boxes in question may have been “tampered with.”
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