A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
President Abdulla Yameen dialled up campaign rhetoric Thursday night at the first major rally of the Progressive Party of Maldives since facing heavy losses in May’s council elections. With less than a year for the 2018 presidential election, Yameen’s speech was heavily focused on excoriating the Maldivian Democratic Party government of former President Mohamed Nasheed, who presided […]
THOOTHUKUDI: A mechanised sailing vessel (thoni) that voyaged to Maldives from Thoothukudi with general cargo has gone missing with seven sailors on board. The vessel, ‘MSV Maria Iruthaya Robert Vijay’ with the registration number ‘TTN-224’ had started off on its voyage to Maldives from Thoothukudi old harbour with general cargo weighing 81 tonnes on October […]
The Government of Maldives has called on to establish an independent Palestine with East Jerusalem as capital, coexisting with Israel as the only solution to the Middle East crisis. Speaking in the United Nation’s Security Council’s Open Debate on the situation of the Middle East and the question of Palestine, Permanent Representative of the Maldives […]
President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom stated that the Maldives’ small size did not make it resourceless, and that this Administration will go to great lengths to ensure the fulfillment of the people’s needs, even by generating more resources. The President made this statement while speaking at a function held by the Progressive Party of Maldives […]
Police have started implementing monitoring and control orders against five suspected criminals. The police last week asked the High Court for monitoring and control orders for nine people seen as a “danger to society or suspected to attempt an act that is not in line with expected social behaviour”. It is not clear if the […]
In order to obtain over MVR 304 million, MTCC has begun to sell their shares throughout Maldives under their rights issue. MTCC will be selling their shares in Male’ on the 3rd floor of MTCC Tower. By officially launching MTCC Rights Issue, General Manager Ismail Aduham said that over 9 teams will be actively taking […]
Photo: UNDP Maldives Facebook Soneva Fushi has pledged to support the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in Maldives, by signing an agreement with UNDP The agreement was signed by UN Resident Coordinator and UNDO Resident Representative to the Maldives, Shoko Noda and Founder, Chairman and CEO of Soneva Group, Sonu Shivdasani. This partnership will […]
Members of SAI, a Japanese traditional drum group, pictured during their concert at the Republic Square, Male, on October 16, 2017. PHOTO: HUSSAIN WAHEED/MIHAARU The first beats of the drums, which resonate loud and thundering across the Republic Square, are enough to draw the eye of everyone in the vicinity. There is already a crowd […]
The police escorting the expat who was stabbed to the hospital in a police car — An expat was violently attacked with a sharp object late on Wednesday night. According to a witness, the foreign national was stabbed in the head with a sharp object at the Artifical Beach area in capital Male. The witness […]