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Subscriptions to the Journal Online are $57 a year using PayPal. Click on the Subscribe button to purchase a subscription using your credit card. $1 on The The MarshallMarshall Islands Journal —Islands Friday, November 28, 201Majuro4 1 Jaki-ed ISSN: 0892 2096 auction P28 Friday, November 28, 2014 • Volume 45, Number 48 Ballot Yacht hits the reef numbers drawn for the 2015 election The big event of the week was the so-called kubwe in kijidrik (drawing of lots) for candidates’ ballot numbers for the Novem- ber 2015 national election. Hundreds of people filled The yacht Ocean the ICC Tuesday for the Echo grounded event run by the RMI Elec- on the reef at toral Administration. The official list of candidates Enemakij Island. for council, mayor and sen- ator for next year’s election was expected to be released A yacht ran aground near Majuro’s pass The captain alerted local officials to the Enemakij owner Liene Rantak issued a by Electoral later this week. in the early morning hours before sunrise grounding, and Lomor and local yachts re- public announcement Wednesday on V7AB Candidates for the differ- Monday and is considered a total loss. sponded to the emergency to provide assis- advising everyone to stay away from the ent offices for each atoll or The Ocean Echo, which reportedly was tance. However, it became quickly apparent yacht. island — or their represen- waiting for daylight to enter the pass, hit the that the yacht was seriously damaged and “I’ve also lodged a formal complaint with tatives — trooped up to the reef at Enemakij Island, which is near the could not be safely refloated off the reef. the national and local police for investiga- table where Chief Electoral pass at Kalalen. The same day of the grounding, the Cana- tion and retrieval of items that were taken Officer Robson Almen and The vessel’s autopilot is said to have dian captain turned the vessel over to local off the boat without knowledge and autho- Electoral staff were sitting failed and the captain, who was manning landowners and gave items from the vessel rization from my family,” Yolanda Lodge- to pick a number from a the yacht singlehandedly, apparently fell to local residents and others who helped Ned, who is an assistant attorney general, container on the table. asleep. him that morning. told the Journal. The drawing is to position the candidates’ names on the ballots that will be printed at a later date. Mail held at airport Outbound mail to the United tive followed in December of the States was not allowed to leave same year. Majuro late last week when a Businesses concerned by situation DCA then submitted proof to scanner used to check packages show that security measures were broke down. an outstanding question. an International Civil Aviation this week. “The DCA worked to- implemented so ICAO would The problem was resolved A United official confirmed that Organization (ICAO) audit of the gether with US Embassy, Trans- clear RMI from the SSeC audit Monday when United Airlines all packages went out Monday RMI, which identified mail secu- portation Security Administration finding. fixed its scanner. But the issue of and as of Wednesday this week, rity issues. (TSA), and Post Office to resolve But then in August this year, who is responsible for scanning there was no mail backlogged in “ICAO audit on February 2012 the issue.” TSA told United that it did not mail — the RMI government or Majuro. listed RMI with significant se- This resulted in TSA giving a need to continue screening mail. the airline — in light of the secu- The DCA’s policy requiring curity concern (SSeC) regarding directive to United to screen mail, But, said John, United must still rity screening rule being a regula- x-ray scanning of all mail over mail flying out without proper by using explosive trace detection comply with the RMI DCA regu- tion imposed by the RMI Direc- one-pound went into effect in security measures,” DCA Inspec- (ETD) equipment, in June 2012. lations. torate of Civil Aviation remains December 2012 as a response to tor Alice John told the Journal The Marshall Islands DCA direc- Continued page 2 Talk to us at [email protected] • Subscribe to the Journal Online at www.marshallislandsjournal.com 2 Friday, November 28, 2014 — The Marshall Islands Journal MBA course Legal Services to gets thumbs up reopen Ebeye office from association Senior staff and The Micronesian Legal Services Corp (MLSC) alumni of the Univer- will reopen its office in Ebeye next month. The Eb- sity of the South Pa- eye office was closed since last year. cific (USP) gathered Now leased documents have been finalized and at the Laucala Campus MLSC is gearing up to bring the Ebeye office back on November 17 to into operation. According to MLSC supervising at- celebrate the accredita- torney William Fife, III, the office is expected to be tion of USP’s Master open for service to the public starting on December of Business Adminis- 8. tration program by the The office is located next to the Ebeye courthouse Association of MBAs and will be open during normal work hours Monday (AMBA). to Friday. It will be staffed by MLSC Ebeye Office’s Head of USP’s Roseann Muller, who was sworn-in to the RMI Bar Graduate School as a trial assistant last week. of Business (GSB) Fife, who is based in Majuro, will be available to Professor Raghuvar work with clients either through video teleconfer- Pathak said the uni- encing or in person during Ebeye court sessions. versity was delighted “Our motto is ‘Strengthening Communities that AMBA President through Advocacy,’ and we do this in three ways,” Sir Paul Judge (pic- Fife said. “Direct legal services, collaboration, Trial assistant Rose- tured) had come from and community outreach and education. Our legal ann Muller, above London to join in the services are for those who are financially eligible, left and inset right, celebration of USP’s meaning low- to no-income individuals or groups. was sworn in to the AMBA accreditation. “I met Sir Paul at the Interna- We seek to collaborate with and provide community RMI Bar as a trial tional AMBA conference in April this year and took outreach and education to those that cannot afford assistant last week. the opportunity of inviting him to our GSB. I am so legal representation.” She will work at pleased he has honored us by his visit to our Laucala This is to provide equal access to justice for all the reopened Ebeye campus,” he said. sectors of the population, he said. MLSC office. “As many of you now know, Association of MBAs delivers a world class accreditation service focusing on the quality assurance of postgraduate management programs at the top-tier business schools around the The poorest of the poor world.” He said AMBA accreditation will help GSB to further improve its international visibility and to Marshall Islanders have the highest manians or Chamorros, Native Ha- age of home owners at nine percent. position it to a global business school. level of people living below the pov- waiians, and Fijians. The average an- Marshallese were next at 10 percent. “AMBA gives you a worldwide reach,” said Sir erty line in the United States, accord- nual per capita income for Marshal- Palauans were in the middle at 27 per- Paul. “We now have 222 business schools accredited ing to a newly issued report on Pacific lese was $7,097, according to the re- cent owning homes. in over 70 countries and like many things, the density islanders living in the US. port. This compares to Tongans who Marshallese had the biggest house- of business schools in Asia Pacific has increased. “A Community of Contrasts: Na- were next at $11,892 and Fijians who hold size at an average of 5.7 people “Twenty years ago there were no accredited busi- tive Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders were at the top with $21,621. per house. Next came Chuukese at ness schools in Asia-Pacific. Now out of the 222, over in the US 2014” provides detailed in- In the “poverty rate” listing, Mar- 5.5. Others listed included Pohn- 40 of them are from this region and the fact that you formation on various Pacific islanders shallese were at the top with 49 per- peians (4.5), Yapese (3.5) and Palau- are one of those is really important,” he added. living in the US and its jurisdictions. cent. Tongans were next at 19 percent, ans (3.3) The report compares the status of followed by Palauans (18 percent) Overall, Fijians came out the best different groups of Pacific islanders and Samoans (16 percent). in four of the six categories: top in in six categories. Seventy three percent of Marshal- per capita income, lowest percentage Mail sent out Marshallese in the US scored low- lese were in the low-income bracket, of people in poverty, fewest people at est in average income when compared with Tongans next at 47 percent. low-income levels, and most (55 per- to Tongans, Palauans, Samoans, Gua- Chuukese had the lowest percent- cent) people owning homes. after United fixes scanning gear From page 1 Majuro Postmaster Aaron Lang said the PO is “work- ing with the DCA to try to sort this out.” Because, as was discussed at this week’s Chamber of Commerce meeting, if United’s scanning equipment breaks down, mail will be held up again. Lang said the US Postal Service and TSA have no issue about mail from the RMI as the accepted practice by both US agencies is that the RMI Postal Service Authority provides a “chain of custody” letter to verify that no one other than authorized postal staff handled the mail before it was put on the plane.

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