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The Western Union Company is expanding its services in the Marshall Islands with the signing of an agreement with the Marshall Islands Postal Service, the company announced late last week.
“The partnership will further enhance our coverage in the Marshall Islands, connecting the people of the island state to the world and vice versa,” said Chris Cruzado, Western Union’s Pacific Islands director.
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“Based on the findings of the 2004 audit it is obvious that KAJUR was not in compliance with accepted accounting practices and policies,” Marshalls Energy Company general manager Billy Roberts told the Journal this week. “Procedures are being put in place to ensure the problems do not reoccur.”
Roberts said that when the MEC board took responsibility for KAJUR in May 2006, the board’s first priority was to catch up on the audits so that it would know the true financial status of KAJUR and also to ascertain if the correct policies and procedures to ensure compliance with good accounting practices where in place.
By way of background, Roberts explained that a management contract with the American Samoa Power Association (ASPA) was terminated in 2003 and KAJUR retained the services of some of the management personnel who had worked for ASPA. Complicating KAJUR’s management situation is that until the MEC board was appointed by Cabinet to oversee KAJUR in May 2006 there was no KAJUR board of directors.
VIPs joined Marshall Islands High School students, teachers and administrators last Friday for the dedication of three new buildings put together with US Compact funding.
First Lady Mary Note and Rosemary Kendall, wife of Education Minister Wilfred Kendall, did the formal ribbon cutting, while David Kramer for contractor Pacific International Inc. handed the key over to Education assistant secretary Alison Nashion.
The rental engine arrived last Sunday, as planned. But it wasn’t until Wednesday that AMI officials worked through installation issues with the manufacturer, allowing mechanics to start work on the plane, said general manager Dan Fitzpatrick.
Just when it seemed everything was a go for a test flight on Thursday, Fitzpatrick was informed at mid-day Wednesday that AMI had no oil filters needed to operate the Dash-8.
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But since August 23, virtually all emails containing attached documents either could not be sent or took days — instead of seconds or minutes — to arrive at their destination.
This sparked numerous complaints to NTA, and Marshall Islands Chamber of Commerce president Jack Niedenthal said in a letter this week to Transportation and Communications Minister Mike Konelios “I have never received so many phone calls and complaints about the Internet and cell phone systems here in the RMI (during the past month).”
Shown here are just a few of the stories that appeared in the August 31, 2007 issue of the Marshall Islands Journal.
Four major “component units” of the RMI government together with smaller government agencies lost a total of nearly $8.6 million in fiscal year 2006, the latest audit reports. Only two — the National Telecommunications Authority and Marshall Islands Development Bank — ended 2006 with an operating income balance.