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| Litokwa to Pohnpei for president talks President Litokwa Tomeing will head a delegation from the Marshall Islands to the Micronesian Chief Executives meeting and the Micronesia Presidents’ Summit, which will be held in Pohnpei from Monday through Thursday next week. The Presidents’ Summit will be held on November 19-20. Foreign Minister Tony deBrum will join the President and other officials in the delegation. The agenda for the summit will include the upcoming five-year Compact review with the US. “We will be sharing what is good and bad about the Compact, and what changes are needed,” deBrum said. AMI to rent Dornier-228 Air Marshall Islands expects to lease a Dornier-228 for service in the RMI in the next several weeks, according to General Manager Bill Capelle. The resumption of service by its Dash-8 has been delayed again by delays in the arrival of parts. In the meantime, arrangements are being made to get a Dornier leased to be in service prior to Christmas, Capelle said. Mobil drops price by 30¢ Mobil Oil Micronesia dropped its gas price to local dealers 30 cents per gallon on Saturday, its biggest reduction since prices began declining in July. The 30-cent cut is triple the reduction of previous Mobil reductions since the end of July, when the price of gas began going down in Majuro. With Saturday’s 30-cent reduction, Mobil has lowered its wholesale price to dealers by $1.17 since July. Mobil’s wholesale price to dealers is now under $4.50 per gallon. On Wednesday, SEPS and Riwut stations dropped a full 30 cents to $5.79 — the first time in nearly a year that gas prices have been under $5 a gallon at the pump. Fish club feels the tuna drought The Marshalls Billfish Club board of directors and the general membership is feeling the scarcity of tuna schools in Majuro and Arno atoll waters, the main sport fishing grounds, the club said in a statement to the Journal this week. “Ten years ago, schools or boils of tuna, yellowfin and bigeye were abundant,” said MBC President Chris deBrum. “Nowadays it is very difficult to run into a yellowfin school.” He said, “over-fishing and illegal fishing are directly contributing” to the problem. Wages down by $2.5 million Confirming what any business will tell you — that the economy has been slack this past year — is a report issued this week by the government’s Economic Policy, Planning and Statistics Office (EPPSO). The report shows that there was an increase of only 15 new jobs in the RMI between fiscal year 2007 and fiscal year 2008. Happy start for WUTMI gals Women United Together Marshall Islands (WUTMI) kicked off its ninth General Assembly before a packed ICC on Monday. The attendance of President Litokwa Tomeing and top RMI leaders, coupled with the live broadcast of the event on V7AB radio, demonstrated a level of harmony between WUTMI and the national government not seen in years. |
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The Kili/Bikini/Ejit (KBE) Council is moving with surprising rancor to resolve the question of how to fill the vacancy created by the recent death of Mayor Kataejar Jibas. KBE leaders have packed the Bikini Town Hall since last Friday for daily meetings. On Tuesday, although agreement was reached in some areas, the meeting was halted after heated debate sparked a fight between two meeting participants. The two had to be separated by others. Meetings were continuing Wednesday as the Journal went to press. The challenge for the KBE Council is its constitution, which has conflicting provisions about how to resolve a vacancy in the mayor’s post. Under discussion now are a series of amendments to the constitution, according to KBE officials. A two-thirds majority — 12 of the 18-member council — is needed to approve any amendment, which also needs the okay from the Attorney General’s office and Internal Affairs.
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With fewer than five weeks left to Kwajalein’s December 17 money deadline — when $20.7 million either gets paid to the landowners or returns to the US possibly never to be seen again — there appears to be little progress to get a new land use agreement or to extend the deadline, despite RMI appeals for action to the US. Foreign Minister Tony deBrum (pictured) told the Journal last week he would like to
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'The RMI has honored and we expect it will continue to honor (the terms of the Compact).' – Clyde Bishop
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NEWS UPDATE: Friday, October 31, 2008
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Four Kiribati men are still missing at sea after leaving the capital of Tarawa on Saturday, October 11, to go fishing in an 18-ft open wooden boat. Official rescue centers in Wellington, New Zealand, and Canberra, Australia are reportedly aware of the situation and in mid-October the crew of a NZ Air Force P3 Orion spent three days unsuccessfully searching for the men. A friend of the four men, cruiser Tom Vance of the yacht Vanessa, has worked out a drift plan that would put the drifting boat near Ailinglaplap Atoll.Read more about this in next week's paper.
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