Written by: Caleb Klipowicz On April 5th, a 16-year-old Chuukese boy named Iremamber Sykap was killed by police in Honolulu, Hawai’i. The details of the killing as reported by the Civil Beat remain unclear, and the responses online have been mixed. What is clear, however, is that this tragic loss is part of a much […]
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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 the workforce on Kwajalein. Around the same time, a group of workers from Fiji were repatriated and quarantined using the
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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 days before the end of the year. On 29 December 2020, the RMI received 1200 doses of the Moderna vaccine
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Salt Lake City, UT., Tijōmba 5 Kōmeļeļe jān William Swain Ilo juōn ian al ko an Len̄itwa Jeik taitōl eo an ej “Kijpāpinuwe” rikkōn al in eaar kajjitōk kajjitōk in ilo eon juōn: Ia in ke ejeppel eoon meto in?” Im atea, em̧ool ke ej ekonono kōn ial leplep en ilo Metwan Tiltak im ekawōtata
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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 the US military base on Kwajalein and Marshallese citizens. The US military successfully convinced the RMI that they could safely
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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 out. The RMI government banned travel from China several weeks prior to the March 3, 2020 restrictions on international travel.
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