Marshall Islands

The Jaluit High School team won the science Jeopardy competition during Education Week activities, becoming the first high school in the outer islands to win the competition by defeating three public schools

An art exhibition of local artists that brought together students from four Majuro high schools with NGOs Jo-Jikum and Waan Aelon in Majel has been hosted by the US embassy in Majuro

Laura village resident Nicky Komanta went house to house monitoring salinity levels in private groundwater wells for 7 months, ending in November, with data on 240 wells to study future impacts of sea level rise

Ebon Atoll recently held a ceremony to officially open libraries in the atoll's three schools, Ebon, Toka and Enekoion, in the presence of the President and First Lady

Girls dominate Marshall Islands High School's latest honor roll, with only one class having more boys than girls on the honor roll, where three-quarters of total students are girls

The National Telecommunications Authority is currently installing a new mobile phone tower in the Batkan area of Majuro, which is expected to end the area's reputation as a "dead zone" for cellular calls

The Marshallese version of the Olympic Games is the jepta biit Christmas dance, an event full of competition and insults, part of the jepta performances since time immemorial

The Asian Development Bank has signed a $7 million grant with the government to support the Marshalls Energy Company to improve its performance, to enhance resilience to power grid disasters and to prepare for the transition to renewable energy

Large metal sheets hanging dangerously from the roof of the SGT Solomon Sam Memorial Court at the College of the Marshall Islands for several weeks had been removed; it is one of the most popular basketball and volleyball courts

Veterans - who have to travel at great personal expense to take advantage of the health benefits earned through service in the US military - are demanding recognition of their difficulties in accessing health services

Boys and girls teams from Majuro Cooperative High School battled it out in the school basketball championship sponsored by the Sports and Extracurricular Program that ended last weekend

Delegates warned today that their nation could disappear under the Pacific Ocean within 50 years if nothing serious is done to combat global warming; the effects are already tangible, including longer and more intense droughts and rising sea levels