A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
Dhiraagu has announced a partnership with Shemaroo to bring the best Indian Cinema to the Maldives. Dhiraagu customers will be able to watch genres across Bollywood movies, Classic cinema, and Bengali Movies on the DhiraaguTV VoD platform. The service will be available exclusively to DhiraaguTV customers for MVR 60 per month. Dhiraagu will be offering […]
STO has announced that they have revised its Home Improvement store business hours. STO has stated that according to the revised hours, Home Improvement store will be open from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm in the morning, from 13:15 to 18:00 in the afternoon and from 20:00 to 22:00 at night. Revised business hours will […]
Health Protection Agency (HPA) has amended the policy on entry and exit from resorts and safaris, lifting the requirement to seek an exit application from all individual staff before allowing them to exit the resort or safari. The employees can now leave the tourist establishment as resorts and vessels approach the end of their 14-day quarantine […]
Expedite the Maldives, the general sales agent for Turkish Airlines has announced plans to operate 02 weekly cargo flights from Istanbul to the Maldives combined with Sri Lanka. Expedite the Maldives released a statement saying, “We believe this is good news for the exporters and importers in the Maldives as of now we are with […]
Qatar Airways will be operating a special flight from Male’ on 21st April. With this flight(QR 675) departing from Male’ at 1500hrs, on 21st April, Tuesday, Qatar Airways passengers will now get the opportunity to fly from the Maldives on 21 April 2020 and connect to many cities around the world including London, Paris and […]
Male’ City Mayor Shifa Mohamed has revealed that they will be seizing stalls in the Traveler’s Market with migrants as vendors. The Parliament’s Decentralization Committee held a virtual meeting with the Male’ City Council to discuss the concessions lease rates charged on vendors. In this meeting, Shifa said the council had now finished the redevelopment […]
In the last two months, its estimated that nearly 20,000 people have lost their jobs to either redundancy, no pay leaves or salary cuts. The main focus of COVID-19 stimulus packages should be to take care of workers. The biggest misstep will be allocating so much of the aid to financial rescues of large firms […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has lead to restrictions in international trade and travel. Maldive’s main source of the tourism industry has come to a halt due to this. This has caused a huge toll on the economy. To survive during this time many are opting for farming. As the Maldives is very much dependant on imports, […]
Left-wing political movement ‘Navaanavai’, has launched a hotline for workers facing redundancy, pay cuts and unfair treatment amid the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Navaanavai, an NGO advocating for social justice the hotline number is 9477309 and will be available for workers who wish to register complaints. The NGO informs that the complaints will serve as […]