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RMI Launches COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution

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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Kōttōpar Ko (Resolutions) N̄an 2021

Salt Lake City, 2 Jānwōde 2021 Jeje jān William Swain HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!  Elan̄n̄e naan kein “kōttōpar”, “jipadpad”, “mejān kajjik”, rej jet ko kwōj kōjerbali ilo am konono ak kōjakļo̧kijen kaki jān iien n̄an iien, innām, eaikuij wōr am New Year’s Resolutions n̄an 2021.  Aaet, resolutions ej kajin In̄lij ak ilo kajin Majōl naan emaron̄

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Joshua Manene

Joshua Manene was born in La Grande, Oregon in 1992 to his parents, Tolio and Ponciana Clanry.  He grew up in Oregon until 2006, when his parents moved back to the Marshall Islands to become missionaries. He began informally interpreting English and Marshallese for his father and his uncle Carl Debrum at the age of

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Men in Mōn̄ā, Manit im Coronavirus in: Juōn Wāween Kalimjeke

Salt Lake City, UT., Tijōmba 5, 2020 Kōmeḷeḷe jān William Swain Wiik eo ej jemlokļo̧k je kar kemem e Thanksgiving Day, ak Kamoolol Day eo an ri Majōl kom ar ke kemem e. Aaet, ewōr raan ņe ilo Majōl, jarjartok jān juōn kakien eo kar jakeļo̧k im̧aan Nitijelā eo an jān former Kwajalein Senator Ataji

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Rev. Jim Parrish

Io̧kwe! Hello! I’m Rev. Jim Parrish, minister for the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Fayetteville, a city in northwest Arkansas (NWA). I’ve been the pastor there for six years, and my congregation and I are involved in a number of social justice works in the area. One justice area we participate in is helping the workers

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First Marshallese Group to Clear Quarantine Protocol for Repatriation This Week

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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