The Rainbow Warrior Podcast
GIFF JOHNSON* A podcast about the evacuation of Rongelap Atoll, the multi-decade fallout from the 1954 Bravo hydrogen bomb test, and the last voyage of the Greenpeace Rainbow Warrior has been shortlisted for a major radio award in the United States. The jointly produced six-episode story from Radio New Zealand and Australian Broadcasting Corporation has Read More
Get The Marshall Islands Journal
Meet most of the team that has long been the creative muscle that makes up The Marshall Islands Journal and its digital replica, the Journal Online. Every week we email the Journal Online to hundreds and hundreds of subscribers around the world so they can read all of the latest news, opinions, and cartoons, and Read More
Razz Rocks on Bikini
In May of 2016, almost exactly 70 years after Operation Crossroads detonated an atom bomb over its lagoon, a film crew from Natural History New Zealand, Stanford University researchers, and a traveling electric violinist stepped onto the radioactive shores of Bikini Atoll. The team went to examine the long term fallout from the twenty three Read More
Yellow Pages Guide
This is the nuts and bolts guide to finding things in Majuro and being able to contact the right service for your needs. The guide is updated, hopefully, on an annual basis. The following was edited on January 2, 2025 as part of my New Year’s Resolution list. Karen Enjoy … I hope it’s useful!
Katty’s Mail Service
You need or want a product, but you can’t work out a way to ship it to Majuro or Ebeye because your favorite online store (Amazon?) either won’t send it here or the vendor in the US refuses to ship to 96960. The options to achieve your goal are: 1) have the item sent to Read More
Names of RMI Ministries
Minister in Assistance to the President and Environment: Bremity LakjohnMinister of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Kalani KanekoMinister of Finance, Banking, and Postal Services: David PaulMinister of Health and Human Services: Ota KisinoMinister of Education, Sports, and Training: Gerald Zackios.Minister of Justice, Immigration, and Labor: Wisely ZackhrasMinister of Natural Resources and Commerce: Tony MullerMinister of Cultural Read More
The Final Years of Majuro
A Wendover Productions Documentary
About the Video KAREN EARNSHAW December 10, 2019. Incoming email from Wendover Productions: “We’re a small US-based digital media production company that’s been contracted by a streaming site called Nebula to produce a series of 45-minute documentaries relating to isolated places. The first of these was released last week, about St Helena, and we’re now Read More
Mieco Beach Yacht Club
The Mieco Beach Yacht Club was founded in late 2003 by a group of cruisers and a resort manager for two main reasons: To give the cruisers ‘something to do’ when they’re in RMI, but not visiting the outer atolls, and to attract cruisers to RMI. Check out the club’s site: www.sailingmarshallislands.com. Yachties Night Out: Read More
A Look Back in Time
"The Most Memorable Holiday We Ever Had"
KAREN EARNSHAW Former Peace Corps volunteer Dave Moss, who grew up in Richmond California, arrived in the Marshall Islands in July, 1968 to work as a teacher. First he taught at Rita Elementary and then moved on to Marshall Islands High School. He shared a house with Ron Levy, who worked with a number of Read More
Enen Kio (a.k.a. Wake Island)
Island of the kio flower
By KAREN EARNSHAW Posted in December, 2016, in Majuro. As a number of Asian nations on the Pacific Rim beef up their military prowess, it is expected that the US will, in the next few years, begin upgrading its facilities at the strategic Wake Island (a.k.a Enen Kio), which is 1,501 miles east of Guam, Read More
