March 7, 2024 Majuro, Marshall Islands President Hilda Heine publicly announced the formation of the Deportation Taskforce in Parliament last Monday, March 4. The President’s announcement came in the wake of Marshallese citizens facing potential…
Majuro, MH Flags were flown at half-mast across the Marshall Islands on March 1st, 2024 as the nation commemorated the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Bikini Atoll by the US military in 1954. The…
• Keplaak bwe en ewōr jāān in jipañ rūtto ro ad ekoba ro ewōr ṃōjṇo ilo ānbwin im kōmālij.• Keplaak im lolorjake bwe iṃōn jokwe ko an aolep rūtto ro ioon Majuro ren kōkāāl.• Keplaak…
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….
Early Sunday morning, February 27 2021, around 2AM, Waan Aelōn̄ Majeļ burned down. No casualties or injuries. No damage to PSS nearby except for a loss of power to surrounding buildings. The workshop, most of…
In an interview with New Zealand Pacific Beat, RMI Secretary of Health Jack Niedenthal talked about the success in using the Moderna vaccine in the urban atolls but he said they are waiting for the…
Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa began their Covid-vaccine programs in mid-December. However, the Marshall Islands became the first independent nation in the Pacific to begin distributing COVID-19 vaccinations with just a few…
Some very encouraging news has been coming out of the RMI over these past couple of months. The border cases identified at the end of October, one active infection of COVID-19, was cleared to re-enter…
As soon as there was community spread of the novel coronavirus outside of Asia, the RMI closed its borders. There has been discussion and debate all year surrounding the possible repatriation of essential workers to…
At the beginning of the year, the Marshall Islands had limited travel within the country because of an outbreak of dengue fever. They then extended the restrictions for international travel when the novel coronavirus broke…
