Island Life

Juon eṃṃakūt ikijjien Soccer ilo RMI

Read in English: New Majuro Sports Team Raises Interest in Soccer for Marshallese Worldwide Marshall Islands Soccer Federation (MISF) rej scout ñan rikkure, coach, im administrators ilo US bwe ren jipañ er ilo kōttōpar eo aer ñan ikkure ippān aolep laḷ. Ewōr aer website ilo www.rmi.soccer.  Ejutak kōn jerbal eo an Shem Livai kōn itok-limoun eo […]

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New Majuro Sports Team Raises Interest in Soccer for Marshallese Worldwide

Riiti ilo Kajin Majel: Juon eṃṃakūt ikijjien Soccer ilo RMI The Marshall Islands Soccer Federation (MISF) are scouting for US-based players, coaches, and administrators to help them achieve their goal of competing internationally.  Shem Livai founded MISF in 2020 because even though his son wanted to play soccer they found no teams or facilities for the

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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. In it, he addresses the “moral, unending responsibility” of the United States to the nuclear victims of the Marshall Islands,

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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 visit to Majuro Cooperative High School and Delap Seventh-day Adventist School to present scholarship requirements and criteria with the ministry

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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, that was quickly curtailed with the Chuuk State and FSM Government announced confirmed community transmission of COVID-19 in Chuuk, the

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Mauna Loa

Mauna Loa has been erupting for the past week. The first eruption since 1984, the volcano erupted on November 28, Hawaiian Independence Day when Hawaii was recognized as a sovereign kingdom in 1843. The ongoing lava flow is now about two miles from reaching the main highway. An attempt to redirect the lava flow is

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In Memoriam: FSM Vice President Yosiwo P. George

Read in Chuukese – Acheman Amafen Yosio Palikuun George On August 14th, 2022, the Government of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) announced, with great sadness, that the Honorable Yosiwo Palikkun George, Vice President of the FSM, passed away.  Vice President Yosiwo Palikkun George dedicated  his life to the service of this Nation with unquestionable

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