Fight for Climate Justice
Highly recommended viewing! Thanks to the Thomson Reuters Foundation for sharing. Karen The Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean are sinking because of climate change. Litokne Kabua, a 17-year-old climate activist, is part of a global youth movement fighting to save his own home and the rest of the world.Watch the full film ‘Young Lives Read More
Majuro Ocean Sports Club
The Majuro Ocean Sports Club is seeing a lot of interest from people wanting to join the club and make use of the new outrigger paddling canoes. Follows is the club’s story, as seen in the Marshall Islands Journal. Marshall Islands Journal, Friday, September 18, 2020 Canoes are the first focus for new ocean sports Read More
Ailuk’s Canoes
CANOE CAPSIZES! Rob and Jo Birch spent many months filming in the Marshalls as they sailed around the atolls on their yacht Double Trouble.In this video, the couple writes: “A traditional Pacific canoe capsizes next to us when we are on anchor at Ailuk Lagoon. The five visiting yachts all head over in their dinghy Read More
Multiple Votes Allowed
Marshall Islands National Election 2019
From the Marshall Islands Journal, September 6, 2019: Voters be aware: In multiple seat voting districts, you may vote for the maximum or as few as you like and your ballot will still be valid. In Majuro’s Nitijela contest, for example, which has five seats: A voter can check mark the five candidates of his Read More
The Value of Visiting Yachts
By KAREN EARNSHAW A study on the economic impact of the yachting industry in Fiji has revealed the tourism side-industry contributes about US$30 million to the country’s economy annually. The study stated that, significantly, while yachting tourism doesn’t boast large numbers of arrivals, cruising is one of the “highest yielding tourism segments with annual average Read More
Beran Island
Beran Island on Ailinglaplap is open for action! After being closed for a couple of years, Martin Daly’s website www.indiestrader.com announced September 21, 2022: “With the border gate now well and truly swung open and off the hinges out in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) our first surf season in two years Read More
Moor is Better
October, 2018: The Mieco Beach Yacht Club began working on a mooring project for Enemanet and Eneko Islands in Majuro in 2006. Twelve years later the moorings are still well-maintained and used by yacht club members, thereby saving the precious reefs from anchor damage. Back in the day, we created a powerpoint and showed Read More
Rise: From One Island to Another
The website 350.org has an enormous new poem/video on climate change that features the Marshall Islands’ Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner and Greenland’s Aka Niviâna. Here’s their description of the piece of visual and audio art: Watch this poetic expedition between two islanders, one from the Marshall Islands and one from Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), connecting their realities of Read More
Ship Grounded on Taka Atoll
January 4, 2019: The commercial fishing vessel, the Ou Ya Leng No. 6, ran aground at remote Taka Atoll in the north of the Marshall Islands on January 3. According to Kenneth Kramer of the local company PII, on Friday they deployed two tugs to the atoll to “assess the situtation” while they await the Read More
