Stories by Giff Johnson

The Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority has signed on one of the Pacific region's top fisheries experts provide it legal advice.

Three United States-affiliated countries in the north Pacific have launched aggressive Covid-19 vaccine programs

The Marshall Islands has became the first independent nation in the Pacific region to begin Covid-19 vaccinations.

Fisheries revenue normally injects between 10 and 15 percent of the government's total annual revenue, but several factors in 2020 means this could fall significantly.

Marshall Islands police have destroyed over 635 kilogrammes of cocaine after the cache of drugs drifted into a remote atoll.

The latest drug charges in the Marshall Islands are spotlighting the country's cocaine problem, and authorities have two theories about how the narcotic comes to be washed up on their shores.

The international airport in the Marshall Islands took on a festive air on Friday as a special charter flight arrived bringing several dozen workers and their families.

The first group of workers to arrive in the Marshall Islands since the border was closed in March due to the Covid-19 pandemic are scheduled to arrive today on a chartered Fiji Airways flight.

Tuna transshipment activity in the Marshall Islands has picked up, but remains low compared to previous years, as the coronavirus pandemic continues to impact the industry.

The Marshall Islands is reverting this week to Covid-free status following the medical declaration the US Army worker who tested positive two weeks ago is no longer contagious.

A repatriation flight to the Marshall Islands went ahead despite community calls to keep the borders closed following the two confirmed cases of Covid-19 in quarantine.

The first positive cases of Covid-19 were confirmed among two US Army workers who arrived on the missile testing range in the Marshall Islands.

2020 could be a record year for Marshallese deportations from the United States with at least 33 Marshallese in detention awaiting the opening of borders for deportation.

The first group of Marshall Islanders from a location with widespread Covid-19 could be repatriated later this month.

The tagging of over 6,000 tuna in the central Pacific over the recent weeks is being hailed for the data it will provide to ensure accurate assessments of stocks.

One of the largest ever Japan development projects for the Marshall Islands will inject nearly $US17 million to expand Majuro's water storage capacity by 40 percent.

The past six months have seen over a dozen reports to the Marshall Islands Auditor General's office of theft from and abuse of government offices.

The Marshall Islands is continuing to wrestle with an outbreak of dengue fever, 14 months after it initially hit.

Police in the Marshall Islands have confiscated three kilogrammes of cocaine that were brought into Majuro from a remote outer island.

The Marshall Islands has suspended non-essential outbound air travel in the wake of skyrocketing coronavirus infections in Hawai'i and Guam.

There are fears that a drop in fisheries revenue in the Marshall Islands could be more than the $US4 million initially forecast.

The repatriation of Marshall Islanders continues to be considered despite mounting cases of Covid-19 in Hawaii and Guam, the two principle points of departure for flights there.

Plans to repatriate Marshallese civilians stranded in the United States are pressing ahead as the repatriation of military personnel continues.

At least 70 Marshallese have died in the United States mainland from Covid-19, according to a report complied by the Marshall Islands Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Momentum is developing behind efforts for renewed attention to lingering problems related to the US nuclear weapons testing programme in the Marshall Islands.