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| By GIFF JOHNSON A Koos Fishing Company captain was brutally assaulted by a gang of Marshallese teenagers Sunday night as he walked from a restaurant to his vessel at Uliga Dock. The unprovoked attack calls into question safety for local and foreign fishing companies that employ dozens of Marshallese, pay fees to the Ports Authority and Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority, and patronize local stores and restaurants. Captain Tian who captains one of Koos purse seine fishing vessels finished dinner at Uliga Restaurant about 9:30pm Sunday with two crewmembers. Tian then made the short 80-yard walk from the restaurant to Uliga Dock.He was within a few feet of the gate that is patrolled by Ports Authority security guards when he was |
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| The Marshall Islands government did not spend nearly $1 million of Compact funds provided in fiscal year 2008, requiring it to be returned to the US government recently for reallocation to a future fiscal year. Nearly half of the $978,587 unspent by September 30, 2008 has already been given back to the RMI, with the balance to be put into FY2010, which starts October 1 this year. This unused balance is the highest ever since the new Compact went |
into effect in 2004. It also includes $153,852 in unspent money from FY2006. The US Embassy provided a breakdown of the unused Compact funds for FY2008: Education: $0 Health: $252,862 Kwajalein Environmental Impact: $7,554 Public Sector Capacity Building: $128,891 Ebeye Special Needs Education: $326,644 Ebeye Special Needs Health: $108,784 FY06 Unused Carryover: $153,852. |
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| In FY 2004, the first year of the new Compact, unspent funding amounted to $198,770. It has increased every year since then, to $295,154 (FY2005), $573,436 (FY2006), $601,830 (FY2007) and $824,735 (FY2008) plus $153,852 (FY2006) for the FY2008 total of $978,587. All FY04-FY07 carryover funds have been re-granted to the RMI, said US Embassy-based Interior Department grants official Alan Fowler. Out of the $978,587 in FY08 carryover funds, $435,428 has already been re-granted in FY2009 as per a RMI government request for use by KAJUR on Ebeye. These were the Ebeye Special Needs funds for Education and Health (listed above). These funds were drawn down by the RMI in March. The remaining $543,159 is included in the FY 2010 Compact allocations and will be available for use on October 1, 2009. |
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Pictured: Waka Silk, 13, Junior Batlok, six, Zomile Joseph, 16, and David Joran, 10, play chess on one of the childrens computers at the Alele Library.
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