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
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
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
Fishing Ships in RMI
January, 2016: Due to the hard work of the many regional fisheries individuals and groups, and especially the people at PNA (Parties to the Nauru Agreement), Majuro lagoon is now packed with purse seiners and their accompanying transshipment vessels. Of course there are upsides and downsides to this story, but overall the fact that Majuro is Read More
Taiwan Navy Ships Visit
March, 2016: Three Taiwan Navy vessels will be in Majuro from March 23 to 25 as they voyage from their home port to Central America. Known as the ROC Naval Goodwill Squadron, the ships are the flagship Pan-Shi and two frigates, the Kung-Din and the Cheng-Ho. They have on board 730 officers, midshipmen, and sailors. Read More
World’s largest shark sanctuary
In 2011, the Marshall Islands became home to the world’s largest shark sanctuary. The RMI waters cover 768,547 square miles — nearly four times the landmass of California — in which commercial fishing of all sharks is prohibited. And not only is it the biggest, but a year after implentation later, its shark protections are Read More
Selina speaks to the world
This agreement should be the turning point in our story; a turning point for all of us. In November, 2015, the Marshall Islands’ Selina Leem, formerly a student at Marshall Islands High School and now a student at UWC Robert Bosch College in Germany, spoke to world leaders at the 2015 United Nations Climate Conference Read More
Three-masted ship visits RMI
The three-masted barque rigged sail training vessel ‘Le Quy Don’ arrived in Majuro Sunday, January 3. It was built by a Polish shipyard in Gdańsk for the Government of Vietnam for Defence Force training purposes. Its home port is Nha Trang, home of the Vietnamese Naval Academy. The 67-meter ship is named after a famous Vietnamese Read More
Cruise Ships Visit
Three cruise ships have been or will be in Majuro this month and next with passengers seeing the sights and shopping for handicrafts. The Statendam, from Rotterdam and carrying 1,600 passengers, was here on October 8, while the Bremen, which is registered in Nassau, the Bahamas, visited with its 160 passengers on Saturday, October 17. Read More
Marshallese-Born, Texas-Raised
By Rick Calley* Sean Calley was born in 1997 on Majuro to parents Belisa Listo and Hemos Kiotak from Namorik. You might have known him as Tarwoj Kiotak if his birth didn’t overwhelm (stress) his parents. They were already caring for a young son, Murphy, and didn’t have a lot. Life can be hard in Read More