News - Marshall Islands

MAJURO, Marshall Islands — “They could have said you are ‘nowhere near being ready,’ but they didn’t,” Marshall Islands fisheries Director Glen Joseph said in an interview on June 19. “Instead, they gave us five items to respond to.”

President Surangel S. Whipps Jr. escorted Vice President Hsiao Bi-khim of Taiwan to the Rock Islands, where she kayaked and swam on her first visit to Palau.

MAJURO, Marshall Islands — The third quarterly distribution of universal basic income to every citizen in the Marshall Islands happened May 28, as tens of thousands received a US $200 payment.

The latest U.S. Government Accountability Office report of May 5 on the Freely Associated States focused on the fact that the three countries have not yet met certain oversight requirements established by the amended compacts, while U.S. oversight efforts are underway with some delays.

MAJURO, Marshall Islands — Being at the end of the supply chain, which most assuredly describes the Marshall Islands, is no buffer from world events as the U.S.-Israel war with Iran has demonstrated.

MAJURO, Marshall Islands — A construction boom is underway in the Marshall Islands and with Pacific International Inc. the only large contractor here, it is dominating the sector.

Range Generation Next LLC of Sterling, Va. was awarded a $14.01 million modification for “continued support of the Reagan Test Site in support of Kwajalein Islands operations,” according to an April 28 release, CHamoru Standard Time.

MAJURO — With fuel prices skyrocketing in the wake of the United States and Israel’s Feb. 28 attack on Iran, Marshall Islands President Hilda C. Heine declared a “state of economic emergency” for the country on March 26.