Maui Business

The scholarship will be awarded to eight Hawai’i public school graduates who have demonstrated academic achievement, leadership skills and an expressed interest in pursuing a hospitality, tourism or culinary education and career, and up to two Hawai’i community college graduates with an associate degree in hospitality, tourism or culinary studies.

The Department of Transportation will host a series of public meetings to discuss a project to improve six of the historic bridges along the Hāna Highway.

Kamehameha Schools today announced the selection of John Komeiji as its new General Counsel and Vice President. With Komeiji’s departure, Hawaiian Telcom announced the promotion of Su Shin to President and General Manager.

The airline, which has offered daily nonstop flights between Phoenix and Honolulu since 2002, held a blessing to welcome 60 employees to its 15,000-square-foot center.

Workplace drug testing results by Diagnostic Laboratory Services, Inc., showed increases in the positivity rate in the four major drug classes from Q3 to Q4 2019.

The Hawaiʻi Chapter of the American Resort Development Association recently donated $4,000 to the Wailuku branch of the Ka Hale A Ke Ola homeless resource center in Central Maui.

Starting in January, the three utilities that serve 95 percent of Hawaiʻi’s residents will be united under a common name: Hawaiian Electric. “Having three different names continues the three-company mindset,” Oshima said. “By having one common and inclusive name that is of Hawaiʻi, not just of one place, we signal that we are a strong and united team working for all the people of the five islands we serve.”

The event raises vital funds for early childhood development programs and services that meet the diverse needs of Maui County’s children with disabilities and developmental delays.

In Kahului on Maui, the average price today is $3.83, which is the same as last Thursday, also the same as a month ago and eight cents higher than on this date a year ago.

A new self-service DMV kiosk was installed and blessed today at the county’s Kalana O Maui Building, bringing to five, the total number available in Maui County.

During the months of January through March 2020 a portion of all gasoline sales at Maui ʻOhana Fuels locations will be donated to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Maui.

The OHA chair and vice chair say that despite the news, they hope to work with the Legislature this session to ensure that programs and services to Native Hawaiians continue uninterrupted.

A litigant in the case, Jennifer Noelani Ahia said, “Furthermore the Maui, Lana’i Island Burial Council has identified Maui Lani Phase 6 Increment 4 as a known burial area, a pāʻilina. Our iwi have the right to be at peace and as descendants, who inherit their collective mana, we have the right to protect our iwi and the ʻāina where they rest.”

Maui saw increases in visitor spending (+4.5% to $381.0 million), daily spending (+5.5%) and visitor arrivals (+3.0% to 233,631) in November of 2019.

Hawaiʻi motorists paid the second-highest gas prices of the last five years in 2019, according to the AAA Hawaiʻi Weekend Gas Watch.

In November, Maui County had the largest vacation rental supply of all four counties at 304,000 unit nights, according to a new report compiled by the Hawaiʻi Tourism Authority’s Research Division.

According to OHA, the goal of the grant is to allow for more Native Hawaiian students to graduate with an undergraduate degree or earn a vocational education certificate. 

Congressman Ed Case (HI-01) recently introduced a bill to require that all baggage and cargo transporting into Hawai’i by air or sea be inspected for invasive species and high-risk agricultural materials.

The nonprofit Maui Nui Marine Resource Council has introduced new coral reef conservation displays at Kahului Airport.

American Savings Bank launched the bi-annual contest in 2015. This year, ASB received more than 300 entries from 33 schools statewide.