immediate attention and solution.
To that end, President
ca Kabua, in his
message to the Pacific Islands Conference: Development the Padific Way, held at
the
East-West
Center
in
Honolulu,
March
26-29,
1980,
singled
out
telecommunication as one of the most pressing and urgent mafters for Pacific
island development.
He said:
We should include in our regional development studi
a determination of investment priorities for t
telecommunication infrastructure services which c
impact
directly
upon
information
storage
ai
transfer,
delivery
of
health
care
service
agricultural
distribution
conservation.
of
and
industrial
goods
and
services,
deve lopmen
and
ener
The Honorable Amata Kabua, however, sounded a cle
warning:
Our Pacific Island communities reflect a unique a
diverse cultural heritage.
Every effort should
made to preserve that legacy and to ensure that o
young people remain sensitive the the uniqueness
their traditions.
The need for cultural preservati
becomes increasingly urgent in the face of the rapi
social and cultural changes occurring throughout t
world and our region in particular.
H.
Education
Most existing schools on the Marshal! Islands are elementafy schools. There
are, however, four High Schools in the capital Majuro: Govefnemnt, Catholic,
Congregational, and Seventh-day Adventist.
deeply aware of
The Marshallese ar
the importance of education in the modern world.
They seek
very opportunity
possible to ask for help in either upgrading their schools whe
they have them,
or in starting new ones.
There
seems
to
be
a
certain
hesitancy
on
their
part]
to
accord
full
recognition and respect to teachers who are fellow-Marshalile
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prefer help from the United States because they perceive, as
entioned before,
that U.S.
They seem to
teachers by definition are better than Marshallese Eeachers or other
non-Marshallese such as Filipinos.
Several magistrates from[different atolls
extended open invitations, even with a degree of urgnecy, to cbhme and upon up a
school
in their area.
“We'll provide the land for you, oe do all we
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possibly can to help you, only come," seems to be a typical plpa.
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