Stroll the Atoll 2023
Leddik nejin juon ri Majel rej kōḷmānḷọkjen kōn mour in Majel im ilo Amedka ālikin Stroll the Atoll, juon festival kar sponsor e jān ACOM, Arkansas Coalition of Marshallese. Hally Tulensa reflects on her experience…
Island Life
Former Secretary of Health Niedenthal Continues to Advocate against Mishandling of Bikinian Trust Funds
Jack Nidenthal, former RMI Secretary of Health & Human Services and Bikinian by marriage, recently wrote in The Pacific Island Times about the recent mishandling of the Bikini Claims Trust Fund and Resettlement Trust Fund….
Medicaid Recertification: What You Need to Know to Stay Covered
Arkansas stopped disenrolling Medicaid beneficiaries in 2020 per the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, which increased federal funds to match state funds for Medicaid during the public health emergency. Dr. Riklon explains more about medicaid…
Typhoon Leaves Most of Guam without Power
Typhoon Mawar passed over Guam Wednesday night (5 pm local time and 2 am CST) with sustained winds of 140 mph and gusts up to 165 mph, the equivalent of a Category 4 Atlantic hurricane….
Miss Marshall Islands Presents Scholarship Options for Education Week
Miss Marshall Islands, Claret Chong Gum (who had represented Jaluit in the Miss Marshall Islands 2023) is visiting high schools in the RMI throughout Education Week. Claret and her colleagues started the week with a…
Chuuk Adapts to Life after COVID-19 Resuming Goodwill Games and Holiday Celebrations
With quarantine protocols still in place through the end of October, the school year had just started in Chuuk and the State Government was working to complete renovations on the main hospital in Weno. However,…
No Shore Left Untouched: COVID-19 in Chuuk
The first cases of COVID-19 identified in Wuhan China in December 2019 proceeded to spread around the globe hitting big countries hard in 2020 with successive waves of mutated strains like the Delta variant in…
Three Years of COVID-19 and Now What
As subvariants of the Omicron coronavirus variant continue to circulate around the world, the virus will continue to pick up mutations along the way. Since the Omicron variant was identified at the end of November…
Koṃṃool Consul General Alik
Consulate General Eldon and Anita Alik have spent the last five years representing the RMI Consulate in Arkansas. Their leadership has been exceptional in building up the community, encouraging a growth of community work, and…
Håfa adai Kevin Lujan Lee
Kevin is a community-based researcher who in his doctoral studies created Pasifika Strong, a multi-national census of Pacific Islander community organizations in the continental US. There are SO many organizations doing great work. The census data will…
