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The US Center for Substance Abuse under the Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration funded a weeklong national training for substance abuse prevention specialists. The workshop was held last week at the Marshall Islands Resort’s Melele Room with about 30 participants from the Single State Agency, Marshall Islands Epidemiology Initiative Inc., Youth to Youth in Health, Ministry of Health, College of the Marshall Islands, Waan Aelon in Majel, Ministry of Education, KIJLE, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Photo: Douglas Henry. |
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Meanwhile, across the street, the College of the Marshall Islands went into a full lock down mode as a preventive measure. CMI security guards were out in force securing the Uliga campus and all students living in the residence hall were advised to remain indoors, CMI officials said of the incident Thursday.
“The cause of the disorder and the fact that contraband was found in the prison is being investigated and corrective procedures are being reviewed,” police said. “The outcome of that review will be advice to the Attorney General along with any recommendation for prosecution.” According to reports received by the Journal, two prisoners were taken to the hospital for treatment after the fracas. Several police also sustained injuries during the fray. |
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Journal 8/28/1971
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P1 A controversy involving the jurisdictional power of the Municipality of Laura and the Municipality of Darrit-Uliga-Delap has arisen over the licensing of the Blue Pacific 24-hour snack bar located in Delap, Laura or in between. The package sale bar controversy surfaced this week when DUD Magistrate Birash Joash sent a letter to Laura Magistrate Tony Edwards stating that the new snack bar, which opened up near the DUD end of the Laura road, is actually on DUD land and must obtain a license from the DUD Municipality. The bar in question is jointly owned by Albattar Jamore and one other partner. The two men have engaged John Heine as their counsel.
P3 A 19-year-old Marshall Islands High School student was expelled for drinking by MIHS principal John Heine. According to Heine, the boy was drunk and involved in a fight near a school dance Friday night. Heine said all students entering MIHS sign a form stating that they understand it is not permitted for students to drink. He said only 104 students out of an eighth grade graduating class of over 700 were accepted by MIHS. “Because of this, |
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we feel we have to be strict,” he said. Heine added that he himself stopped drinking and that one of the reasons for his stopping was his apparent conflict in telling student not to drink while he himself did. “Things are so different for me now,” he said, “that my church even asked me to give a talk on the trouble you can get into from drinking. They consider me as sort of an expert.” |
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Journal 8/30/1985
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Journal 8/27/1993
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P5 We hate to say this, but despite a great clean up we
still have a terrific problem here in Majuro — one that was highlighted when the Billfish Club held its jackpot tourney.
One outboard boat, in traversing just the area between town
dock and the near shore lagoon sucked up plastic bags and forced engine shutdown due to overheating. The lagoon used
to be full of floating plastic diapers but now for some strange reason the diapers have been converted to plain old bags. Is it maybe that there were so many bags because people filled them with trash and threw them into the lagoon for the great clean up? It’s hard to criticize someone thinking they’re cleaning up, but if they are simply moving the problem, we are not going to get a |
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P3 Marshall Islands government per diem payments to patients and their escorts are “completely out of control,” and Global Associates was paid more than $60,000 by the government for work it never did, reported the Auditor General in his most recent report to the Nitijela. The problems in the Marshall Islands Honolulu Liaison Office appear to stem |
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better island — only a differently abused one.
P12 The Marshall Islnads is now part of the non-smoking chain in Micronesia. Beginning September 1, all Continental Micronesia flights to and from the Marshall Islands — which means Majuro and Kwajalein — will be non-smoking, reports Continental Manager Betwel Lekka. RMI joins the Federated States of Micronesia in its smoking ban. FSM went cold turkey on August 1.
P16 Two brightly colored new postage stamps released by he Post Office depict two of the sea-going vessels associated with the Marshall Islands. One is a 50-cent commemorative of the “Eagle” oil super tanker, the other is the $2 stamp picturing the ‘walap’ (voyaging canoe) of Jaluit.
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from a lack of written rules governing basic office procedures such as accounting for funds, and from the bureaucratic difficulties of reporting to three ministries: Foreign Affairs, Health and Finance.
P20 The Marshalls Billfish Club returned from the 27th Annual Hawaii International Billfish Tournament held in Kona, Hawaii last week. The MBC team came in number 12 out of 70 teams, and is the most productive team in recent years. Rick Bush’s 128-pound Pacific blue marlin kept the team within striking distance up to the finish of the tourney. In addition to Bush, members of the team were Ronnie Reimers, Wally Milne and Biten Lanki.
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