Flying Fish
By Karen Earnshaw Alone on my yacht Seal at Enemanet Island, I was idly turning the pages of a Bon Appetit magazine when there came a loud thumping outside. “Holy crap! What’s that?” I thought as I jumped up from the bunk, scrambled up the companionway, and peered around the dodger to the forward deck. Read More
Muslims in the Marshalls
How Islam Is Gaining A Foothold In Micronesia A mosque and a Muslim congregation are flourishing in the Marshall Islands by demonstrating Islam is a force for good in the community. Joyia sees his community playing a healing role where Marshallese society is out of balance: drug and alcohol abuse, a breakdown in marriage and families, Read More
Restrooms Review
The morning mantra: “Money? Tick. Keys? Tick. iPhone? Tick. Toilet paper? Tick.” Really? Really. (You just can’t be sure the restrooms you will be using as you move around Majuro will have the necessary ‘soft and absorbent’ stuff at your fingertips.) And why do all bathrooms have large red Folger coffee cans (or buckets, or old Read More
Oklahoma! in Majuro
Dartmouth College’s Professor Andrew Garrod led the charge to put together the musical Oklahoma! at the International Conference Center in March 2017. As always, it was a huge hit and, luckily, teacher Brett Taylor and colleague Andrea Johnston filmed much of the show and Brett put together this video. Describing the play, he wrote: “The musical Read More
Enewetak’s Runit Dome
I have just added a video about Enewetak’s Runit Dome to the Enewetak page https://www.infomarshallislands.com/atolls-a-l/enewetak-atoll/ Over 2.5 million people subscribe to a YouTube channel called Be Amazed. In April, 2018, the group did a clip on Enewetak’s Runit Dome. Here’s what they wrote on YT: “You’ll be amazed by this dome hidden away on a Read More
BOMI in the Outer Islands
The Bank of Marshall Islands (BOMI) has its Mobile Banking Services team on the MV Kwajalein that left Majuro on January 20, 2017. The Kwajalein is scheduled to visit Aur, Maloelap, Wotje, Ailuk, Utrik, Mejit, Likiep and then return to Majuro. The BOMI mobile services include: Deposits and Withdrawals; Processing of Micro Loans; Mobile Banking; Collections; Money Gram Service; Handling of Read More
Basketball in RMI
The hottest game in town
Basketball is THE sport in the Marshall Islands. Sure, volleyball is popular, but you can’t get a more excited crowd than the one that’s at the SGT Solomon Sam Basketball Court watching a Ralik-Ratak Shoutout game. Turn a corner in Majuro and it’s likely you can see a hoop somewhere … and if you can Read More
Flying Tour of Uliga, Majuro
Enjoying dinner at Aliang Restaurant near Uliga Dock one evening, I spotted a young man watching an aerial video of the nearby Uliga area on his laptop. It gave a new perspective to this downtown area of Majuro, capital of the Marshall Islands. The chap was Gilbert Lin and he’d been out that day playing Read More
Mattie Sasser: Weightlifting Star
Pacific Games weightlifting win: Three golds! December, 2017: On the first day of the Pacifi Mini Games weightlifting competition, Marshall Islands’ Mathlynn “Mattie” Sasser dominated the women’s 63kg category, setting five Oceania and five Pacific Games records on her way to three gold medals — the maximum possible gold medals for a weightlifter to win in Read More
The Toll of Climate Change
Britain’s Guardian newspaper has on multiple occasions sent reporters and photographers to cover issues in the Marshall Islands and most specifically the effects of climate change. This video was published on September 20, 2016 with the intro stating: If global temperatures rise more than 1.5C, the Marshall Islands are likely to disappear. “The thin atolls Read More
