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Friday, October 19, 2007

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Air Tugaru rescues stranded Bikini divers
For the second time in as many months, scuba divers are being evacuated from Bikini Atoll, following the grounding of all of the national airline’s planes. The Bikini Atoll Dive program chartered an Air Tugaru Casa aircraft from neighboring Kiribati to get the eight divers off Bikini and back to Majuro.
Alik gives Norman green light to run
An objection to incumbent Senator Norman Matthew’s nomination papers has been rejected by Electoral Commissioner Carl Alik. A campaign official of candidate Danny Jack filed an objection to Matthew’s nomination papers, claiming that some of those who signed were not actually Aur-registered voters. But Alik told the Journal on Monday that Matthew’s nomination petition was properly signed by Aur voters.
Mixed result in Kijiner trial
A jury of four men and one woman found Tommy Kijiner, Jr. not guilty of reckless driving causing injury, but High Court Judge Richard Hickson found Kijiner guilty of negligent driving in a trial that wrapped up on Wednesday morning this week.
Kijiner’s attorney David Lowe told the court that he will file an appeal of the judge’s guilty verdict.
This group of guys holds up protest signs torn down and ripped in half by RMI national police prior to Taiwan President Chen’s arrival last Friday in Majuro. Front: Bobby Ned and Jao Arento. Back: Jai Johnny, MB Joel, Herbert Clamen and Kanes Arento.
EPA liberates RMI's cockroaches
The Marshall Islands is soon to be cockroach heaven, following an RMI Environmental Protection Authority ban on household sprays and roach motels. This has angered at least one local business that received a “B” grade on its restaurant rating from the RMI EPA — but the same EPA that dropped its grade down from “A” won’t let it use US-approved products to get rid of the bugs. RMI EPA has ordered Mortein, Raid, roach motels and shampoos for head lice to be taken off the shelves of local stores because the EPA said that any products that contain certain chemicals that are on an RMI EPA hazard list can no longer be sold in the RMI. RMI Attorney General Posesi Bloomfield told the Journal on Tuesday that he was not consulted on the product ban by EPA, which has been enforced over the last several weeks. EPA acting director Ted Tarkwon said the list of chemicals that RMI EPA is working to ban in the RMI was taken from the United States EPA.
Presidents Chen Shui-bian and Kessai Note at Majuro's Amata Kabua International Airport.
Leaders to UN:
Recognize ROC
The Republic of China’s Pacific partners issued a unified call for its membership in the United Nations and pledged their strong allegiance to Taiwan at the opening of the second Taiwan Pacific Allies Summit in the Marshall Islands Friday. “No country deserves international recognition more than Taiwan,” said Palau President Tommy Remengesau, Jr. He called the UN’s decision last month to reject Taiwan’s application for membership “justice delayed,” but said “justice will ultimately prevail.”
Cops stomp on bill of rights
Despite repeated statements by Presidents Kessai Note and Chen Shui-bian about shared ideals of democracy and freedom at Friday’s Taiwan Pacific Allies Summit, top-level RMI government officials ordered national police to remove protest signs posted around Majuro for Taiwan President Chen’s arrival last Friday.National police brought prisoners to the sign locations, breaking them in half and taking them away from the road shortly before President Chen’s motorcade drove by on its way from the airport to the Marshall Islands Resort. RMI officials told the Journal that a police captain in President Note’s security detail phoned the national police dispatcher Friday morning and gave the order to remove the signs.The signs — “Taiwan welcome but not in our internal affairs” — went up Friday across the street from Kejjo Bien’s store by the Delap Dock, at the curve at Rubar weto, and across from the Riwut gas station.
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