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Friday, February 22, 2008
Theft, abuse rife in MALG?

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 Taiwan to help solid waste company
Taiwan is ready to assist Majuro Atoll Waste Company and the Marshall Islands Conservation Society to take trash management to a new level. Taiwan’s Environmental Protection Administration dispatched Y.F. Liang, the adviser to the Minister, and two staff from the agency for a fact-finding mission to Majuro this week.
Giant Octopus to
swim into Majuro
The super-yacht Octopus is scheduled to arrive in Majuro next week Tuesday or Wednesday from Honolulu, according to Journal sources.
The Journal also understands that the yacht, owned by billionaire Paul Allen, is scheduled to travel to Bikini to dive the WW II wrecks.
$3 million fish
market for Uliga?
Japan is reviewing a plan to build a $3 million fish market next to the Uliga Dock. Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority director Glen Joseph confirmed that a team from JICA — the Japan International Cooperation Agency — visited Majuro earlier this month to look at the plan. “If the project gets the green light (from the Japan government), JICA will send in a design team,” Joseph said.
Muller supports mooring project
Resources and Development Minister Fred Muller last week pledged his full support for the Mieco Beach Yacht Club’s mooring project. The project’s goal is to install 10 large moorings for yachts and five smaller moorings for sports boats in two popular anchoring sites in Majuro lagoon so that the reefs in those areas are protected from the damage done by anchors and chain.
Ladie shoots rocket at Riley
Majuro Councilman Ladie Jack has accused the local government administration of misusing funds and personnel, and has threatened to take his concerns to the national police and the Attorney General.
In a February 4 letter to Councilman Titus Langrine, who is Mayor Riley Albertter’s appointed finance Executive member, Jack expressed concern over improper payments he said were given to some employees and MALGov spending for the Mayor’s wife’s funeral. In a separate letter to Councilman Jisam Kaisha, the Mayor’s appointed parks and recreation Executive
Former Peace Corps Volunteer Murray Schwartz took our P1 photo of Charlie Domnick entertaining a PCV group on Molokai in 1966. Today, Domnick is Israel’s Honorary Consul.
member, Jack questioned use of MALGov carpenters working on the Mayor’s house during normal working hours. In his letter to Langrine, Jack said that only employees who resign are entitled to check payments worth 208 hours at their pay level. “If they (check recipients) haven’t resigned, then they along with those who’ve authorized this should be charged with misconduct in public office, cheating, theft, embezzlement and other serious offenses,” he said.
Jack said he couldn’t sit by and watch MALGov administration and finance allow this situation to continue and requested “an immediate investigation into these allegations.”
Beno: College of Marshall Is. better but still on 'warning'
The College of the Marshall Islands didn’t get its hoped-for removal from “warning” status from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges following its mid-January meeting in California.
While complying substantially with previously identified WASC requirements, the college now also needs to comply with “program review” requirements that were only put in place by WASC late in 2007. “Program review is already in motion,” CMI President Wilson Hess told the Journal. But obviously CMI could not review programs, fund and implement all recommendations in the one-month that it had from the announcement of the new requirement to the October 2007 deadline for submitting its annual report to WASC, Hess said.
Confirming that CMI is nearly meeting WASC requirements, WASC President Barbara Beno said in a January 31 letter to Hess: “CMI has made steady, significant and meaningful progress in addressing the many deficiencies noted by previous accreditation teams. The resolution of deficiencies is almost completed.”
Pan Pacific spends $10m on plant
Nearly $10 million has been invested by Pan Pacific Foods to get the loining plant ready for operation. General manager Don Xu said he is seeking confirmation from the government of certain incentives for the company in line with its significant investment and scale of local worker hiring. “The government has given us a lot of support, but we hope that it will consider helping us decrease our expenses,” he told the Journal.
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