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The $123 million fiscal year 2008 budget sailed through Nitijela last week Friday. In one of the shortest review periods in years, the budget was passed with only minor revisions one week after it was introduced.
$15m marine operation
A joint maritime surveillance operation dubbed Operation Big Eye was in full gear this week with the command center in Majuro coordinating the efforts of nine regional patrol boats, a French naval frigate and seven aircraft. Operation Big Eye, which involved Palau, FSM, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, France, Australia, New Zealand and the US, focused surveillance and law enforcement operations on an area covering 2 million square miles of ocean.
AMI back
in the air?
The Dornier operated by Air Marshall Islands is expected to be back in the air by this weekend, following the return of an overhauled engine from the US. Air Marshall Islands Dornier is the primary plane for servicing smaller runways throughout the country. It has been grounded since August 18, or more than five weeks, as mechanics have worked to find problems with one engine that caused the plane to be grounded.
Assumption High School students have spent all week preparing for this Friday’s Manit Day. Spotted are ninth graders cooking local food in their little cook house: Shenae Reimers, Mary Heran, Ariel Tealofi, Salome Corejak, Filipe Sefeti, and Junior Nashion.
Photo: Doug Henry.
Speaking at a hearing Wednesday this week for Bikini, Enewetak, Rongelap and Utrik, Weisgall said that these atolls want some additions to the proposed legislation.
In particular, he said Utrik wants the US Department of Energy to set up a whole body counting facility on Utrik with an adequate power supply. A whole body counter is used to determine people’s level of radiation exposure. Systems are currently set up on Bikini, Enewetak, Rongelap and Majuro.
He also made specific recommendations for the ongoing monitoring of the nuclear waste storage site at Runit Island, Enewetak Atoll.
President Kessai Note spoke on the passing of what is resolution number 84 in the Nitijela late last week, saying that Plasman was well qualified for the job, having ‘sat’ on the Supreme Court, the HIgh Court, the Nuclear Claims ‘court’ and on the tennis court ... serving all four extremely well.
Chief Justice Carl Ingram told the Journal that Plasman’s contract is a ‘two and two’, meaning an initial term of two years, with the option of staying on for another two years.
High Court Judge Richard Hickson issued the order last week in an effort to resolve a national government suit against JALGov on behalf of retired JALGov employee Zorrie Wonne.
But in response to a motion from Attorney General Posesi Bloomfield for a court order placing JALGov into receivership, Hickson said the court could not do this
Internal Affairs Minister Rien Morris.
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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.