News - Marshall Islands

MAJURO, Marshall Islands — After eight deliveries of skipjack tuna to Walmart in 2022, the first year of a new supply deal with the Majuro-based Pacific Island Tuna Provisions company, Walmart is looking to accelerate the volumes of fish being delivered for processing under the U.S. retail giant’s house tuna brand, Great Value.

MAJURO, Marshall Islands — The powerful Pacific island fisheries bloc known as the Parties to the Nauru Agreement is scheduled to officially open their four-story headquarters in Majuro Feb. 13.

MAJURO, Marshall Islands — The Marshall Islands and Palau feature in a new report, “Perceptions of Corruption in Seven Small Pacific Island Countries, issued by Transparency International in the middle of December. It is one of the first corruption reviews by Transparency International in these two U.S.-affiliated Pacific Islands as well as the other five surveyed: Tuvalu, Niue, Tokelau (a territory of New Zealand), the Cook Islands and Nauru.

Look who visited the Mariana Islands A Congressional Delegation was in Guam on Oct. 4, comprised of Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D), chairwoman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction; Rep. Edward...