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(Continued from the home page) Konou asked Judge Plasman to dismiss the MISSA claim, and to award no legal fees. She added that if Plasman rules in favor of MISSA, it “will benefit (MISSA’s) lawyer.”
Strauss updated the Court on KALGov’s debt situation as of September 8. He said KALGov has not paid retirement or health fund taxes — though it deducted taxes from its employees salaries — for 33 quarters. As a result of non-payment for more than eight years, KALGov owes MISSA $2.8 million in contributions and interest, and another $1.7 million in penalities for a total of over $4,550,000, Strauss said.
In his order, Plasman estimated next week’s trial will take two days.
After reviewing Konou’s motions and responses, Plasman said the trial will have a narrow focus to decide KALGov’s liability and the amount, if any, it owes to MISSA. He said Konou raised issues relating to enforcement of judgment that will not be addressed during the trial, but will be considered after the trial.
“There is no reason to delay trial in a matter first filed eight years ago,” Plasman ruled Friday. “The trial date was established in June of this year to take place beginning on October 12 at the Majuro Courthouse. There is no surprise and no reason to continue it further.” |
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Journal 10/8/1993
P17 “You’re right, it was a week we’d like to forget.” So said AMI’s David Tejada. The 748 wasn’t the only plane that AMI was having trouble with the last week of September. “We were running a perfect 100 percent on time performance with the DC8 for the month of September going into the last flight of the month,” he said. During regular maintenance a cable snapped and had to be replaced. An order was quickly placed with a California company for the part. An overnight flight would air freight it to Honolulu and mechanics would have it installed so the DC8 could take off as scheduled for Majuro. But fate was not with the local airline. The |
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Journal 10/11/1985
P6 Caption on a photo of a multi-story under-construction building: Up, up and…”? Nauru’s Eastern Gateway Hotel, possibly Majuro’s longest running construction project is showing definite signs of becoming a hotel in the near future. The three-story structure in Delap will feature, among other things, Majuro’s first elevator.
P15 Chief of Programs and Development for Education Bill Graham was honored with a party sponsored by fellow staff on September 27 at Likrok Entertainment Center as his retirement from the post took effect. Graham, who originally came to the islands as a Peace Corps Volunteer, worked with the government for the past |
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16 years, often performing services and providing leadership to activities and undertakings far beyond the scope his job title might imply. He was especially helpful in preparing the national budget and in preparing before Nitijela as an information source and consultant. Graham’s retirement from his present post is described by himself as “a break, a chance to sit back for a couple of months, do nothing, and think about things.” At the end-of-service party, Acting President and Minister for Education Tom Kijiner, along with Public Service Commissioner Justin deBrum, presented Bill with an outstanding Service Award and a Merit Award.
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employee in California who took the order quit the job shortly after taking the order, so it was not processed and never put on the flight and by the time it was reordered and delivered, the DC8 was delayed. Meanwhile, mechanics from Mt. Cook Airlines in New Zealand were in Majuro over the weekend to assess the damage caused when the HS748’s nose wheel gear collapsed a week ago. They estimate three weeks for plane repair, said Tejada, AMI’s commercial manager. |
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Journal 10/8/1973
P4 Letter “John Paul defended” — In perusing the October 1 issue of the muckraking Micronitor, Micronesia’s only, I chanced upon the letter from one Joseph Johnson of the Smith Detective Agency in Guam. This letter maligns the character of a man we all know and love: John Paul.
John Paul is many things, including Satan Inspired, but he is neither a con man nor a pool hall cheat. He does not know how to play pool.
It is a shame that a man of John Paul’s talents (and beauty) should have his name dragged through the mud by such yellow journalism. Why I’ve even seen John Paul give candy to a child (after taking it away from a dog). John Paul, say it isn’t so!
Dave Moss, Majuro
P4 “Woman attacked in Chamber meeting” — An attempt to gain associate sponsorship for a Living Effectively in a New Society (LENS) seminar from the Majuro Chamber of Commerce was thwarted this week by a scraggily clad, long-haired chamber member who torpedoed a resolution proffered by former chamber president Chuck Singletary with an amendment requiring the chamber to attend a demonstration of the proposed seminar before granting sponsorship approval.
The request for the associate sponsorship of the chamber came from Leah Early, an affiliate of the Institute for Cultural Affairs, the parent body of the LENS
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sessions. Early explained that a LENS seminar was going to be held in Kwajalein and would like to have the local chamber be an associate sponsor to the session, which is to be held in November. A similar seminar was held in Majuro in May but none of the members of the Chamber present Thursday attended.
“I don’t want to sound derogatory,” explained Tony Nagel as he began the discussion to stop the vote on the sponsorship issue, “but since none of us has ever attended a LENS seminar, it seems reasonable that we should wait until we see a demonstration first and make our decision afterward.”
The motion was amended and passed as recommended by Nagel and a demonstration session for the the chamber members was scheduled for Monday (October 8) at 7:30 in the Kitco Board Room in Majuro. Apparently the members will attend the seminar and hold a brief meeting afterwards to decide on whether or not to give sponsorship.
Nagel left Majuro Monday on his boat MV Le Takinal for a charter to Maloelap Atoll and if past trips of the Le Takinal are any indication, may not be back in Majuro before November.
P16 Battle Cheer of DUD Municipal Council: “Two…four…six…eight, we don’t want to amal-ga-mate!” |
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