Comments on: Ebeye Island: “The Slum of the Pacific”

By: John J Rucinski

John J Rucinski — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 16:15:51 +0000

It’s easy to blame the USA for the conditions on Ebeye because we are wealthy and some feel that we have an obligation to care for the people living there. We don’t!!!!
Our obligation is to pay the amount of the lease for the land we use. We don’t lease, own or use Ebeye. Restrictions to entering any portion of the land we lease are related
to security. Free access would result in wholesale theft of everything not nailed down and some things that are. We hire as many locals as we need and pay them a fair wage for the geographic area. Ebeye is over populated with no means of sustaining itself except for the lease payments and locals working on the base.

By: Richard Hensel

Richard Hensel — Thu, 01 May 2025 06:56:25 +0000

In reply to Anonymous. There is a hospital on Ebeye for a number of years. It is fairly well run with a number of bed and 24 hour emergency area, although minimal. Easy to find the correct info by doing your homework.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 20:34:06 +0000

I am Marshallese and have spent more than 12 years living on Ebeye in the early 90’s into the 2000’s. America should be damn ashamed of themselves taking full advantage of my people the way they did and doing nothing to clean up the mess they made. My mother is native and is related to the royal Family. I will be making my way back after school to help all my people in every way I can. America is a piece of crap dictator country and its only going downhill as we speak. No accountability. ASSHOLES!

By: Hue Miller

Hue Miller — Sat, 05 Oct 2024 05:12:53 +0000

You can blame the US government all you want, and i am sure blame is due. The basic fact though, is that the traditional Marshallese lifestyle is done, is untenable. The only viable resource these small islands have is tourism, and they are not, and never will be, and cannot be developed enough to have a workable income from tourism. Population growth doesn’t help their fix, either. If the islands continue to be livable, for the population that remains there, the only options are the minimal tourism and reversion to the Mashall Islands traditional way of life. That means no pickup trucks, no outboard motors, no junk foods, no developed world TV and its ads, and no island slum. I’m sorry, but that’s the sad truth.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:54:20 +0000

In reply to Worldwide Wilbur.

It’s not really if you compare it to any place which has a US Military presence right next to a giant “slum” which is full of the locals who happen to be “black,” like in Africa or other South Pacific islands. It happens everywhere in the world where there’s a US military base surrounded by “black” native populations.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:50:57 +0000

In reply to Mark. I suppose that's a reason so many of them migrated to the Mainland and found that places like Arkansas were an IMPROVEMENT to their standard of living! And New Mexico.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 00:48:06 +0000

In reply to Anonymous. So there's no hospital there for anyone born there to have been born IN, then. I suppose all Marshallese are born at home or out in the fields or whatever that "third world country" "19th century" way of having babies, was. Even into the 1970's and 1980's

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 12:34:22 +0000

In reply to Shengwei. Hi Shengwei, I think it would be safe to walk around after dark. However there is absolutely nothing to walk to to see or do.

By: Shengwei

Shengwei — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 01:01:54 +0000

Thank you for the comprehensive information.
I just booked a trip to Ebeye this summer and planned to stay in the hotel for two nights. (It is impossible to stay for one night only due to the flight schedule)
How is Ebeye after dark, is it generally safe to walk around (in the town center of course, or basically not too many options?
I don’t personally enjoy water sports and am wondering what I could do to spend the two days there lol.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:03:06 +0000

In reply to Jojo Marababol. There is no hospital on Ebeye.