A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
There has been a total of 527 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 18 recoveries and 1 fatality so far in Maldives. Here are the latest updates on COVID-19 Announcements by HPA Additional 8 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Maldives. This includes 3 Bangladeshis and 5 Maldivians. One more patient recovers from the virus, […]
Information Commission Office of Maldives (ICOM) has sent greetings to all the journalists in the nation on the occasion of the world press freedom day 2020. In the press released by the ICOM, the information commissioner noted the covid15 pandemic health emergency we all are in while marking the day and felicitated all the journalists […]
PrintLab Creative has made a generous donation to the people living in temporary shelters due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The donation includes much-needed food supplies for the people living in the temporary shelters amid the lockdown. PrintLab creative is a large format digital printing facility owned by Tropical Investments Pvt. Ltd, serving clients throughout the […]
According to UK’s leading celebrity news site Hello Magazine, Maldives is among the 8 travel destinations celebrities will likely to book post lockdown. Hellomagazine.com is the official website of the weekly celebrity news magazine Hello!, and the UK’s leading celebrity news site. Started in 2001 to complement the magazine, the site is updated throughout the day, […]
Economic Minister Fayyaz Ismail has stated that the ministry is looking into ways to help freelancers during this difficult time, however, the state does not have sufficient funds to provide financial assistance to all freelancers in the country. This comment made by the Minister garnered a lot of attention from freelancers. They have expressed their […]
The government of Maldives has established an Agro National Corporation to promote farming in the country and Haroon Rasheed has been assigned as the managing director of the Agro National Corporation. The Agro National Corporation is operated under Maldives Finance Corporation as a subsidiary with government shares. Haroon Rasheed has stated that the corporation is […]
The government of Maldives has imposed a 14-day lockdown in the Greater Male’ area amid the community spread of COVID-19 in the country. As the virus spread to different islands, the government is declaring immediate lockdowns in those islands. Restaurants, salons, and mosques are closed indefinitely. Here, Corporate Maldives has gathered 6 places that will […]
As Maldives tries to grapple the community spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has managed to shed light into various other challenges that require attention. Human trafficking, worker rights, the housing crisis and food safety are issues speculated from time to time but the ongoing crisis has proved that these issues need to be addressed […]
In the celebration of International Labour Day 2020, National Bureau of Statistics has revealed the statistics of the labour force in the Maldives. The total labour population of Maldives totals up to 151,706 with male employment in the majority with 70.3% male employment to population ratio. While female employment to population ratio is 39.8%. Even […]