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Friday, September 14, 2007 |
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Landowners’ spokesman: ‘No lease on land since 1980’
The government’s failure to communicate is what landowners are saying caused the closure of the Ministry of Finance’s Procurement and Supply Office at the end of last month and beginning of September.
Ambassador gives check for $1.8m
Taiwan Ambassador Bruce J. D. Linghu gave a check $1,848,667.47 to Finance Minister Brenson Wase and the Foreign Ministry’s protocol chief Neijon Edwards on Monday this week. The money is part of an annual grant from the Republic of China to the RMI government for the use of the following projects.
Lorennij wins trip to Japan
College of the Marshall Islands student Misako Lorennij (bottom) won an all-expenses paid trip to Japan, courtesy of the Japan Embassy in Majuro, when she won a Japanese language speech contest earlier this year. |
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| The opening of Bank of Marshall Islands new branch at Kwajalein was a big event last week, with a large turnout of VIPs and bank customers. Among those on hand for the opening were, front from left: BOMI President Patrick Chen, RMI liaison at USAKA Noda Lojkar, Kwajalein Senator/Iroij Michael Kabua and BOMI board chairman Grant Labaun. |
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| Calls for NTA competition |
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| A bill to allow competition in telecommunications for the first time was introduced Wednesday this week into the Nitijela by Kili/Bikini Senator Tomaki Juda.Speaker Litokwa Tomeing assigned the bill to the Resources and Development committee that is chaired by Senator Nidel Lorak. Currently, RMI law bans competition in telecommunications in the RMI, with the National Telecommunications Authority (NTA) designated by the government as a monopoly.The bill, which aims to amend the NTA law, would specifically “allow, encourage and enlist private sector participation in the delivery of telecommunications services to persons in the Republic.” |
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| 'Terrorists hurt Islam religion' |
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| US Senator Jeff Bingaman. |
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DC committee holds N-talks
The US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is sponsoring a hearing on nuclear test issues in Washington, DC, on September 25. Officials in Majuro confirmed the hearing date late last week. The hearing will focus on a bill for the Marshall Islands introduced recently by committee chairman Senator Jeff Bingaman. |
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| For Islam-follower Sam Ali Nena, the hearing on the radio concerning his “religion” was a big surprise. As he put it to the Journal, “I got a call from my daughter to tell me to listen to the radio,” he said. The alert stemmed from a hearing broadcast on government radio V7AB, and the subject up for consideration was legislation to address the question of Islam in this heavily Christian country. “If I knew there was going to be such a hearing, I would have gone,” he told the Journal. Majuro Senator Alik Alik is an instigator in the Nitijela end of this controversial issue involving whether or not Islam is a religion. In recent months, the idea has been floated that by simply passing a law, establishment of Islam as a recognized religion here could be stymied. But cooler heads prevailed when it was pointed out that the RMI constitution provides freedom of religion as a right. This drove the matter upstairs, so to speak, from being a law in possible contradiction to the constitution, to go back and change the constitution itself. |
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Shown here are just a few of the stories that appeared in the September 14, 2007 issue of the Marshall Islands Journal.
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