A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
For years, human trafficking has been an issue plaguing the Maldives, a country where roughly a third of the resident population are expatriate labourers. Migrant workers in the Maldives face a range of entrenched abuses from employers, including deceptive recruitment practices, wage theft, passport confiscation, unsafe living and working conditions, and excessive work demands. Diplomatic […]
Abdulla Ziyath, the former Managing Director of Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation (MMPRC), has pleaded to 32 charges related to corruption brought against him in the Criminal Court on Monday. The state accuses Ziyath of being involved in the embezzlement of USD 50.7 million (MVR 781 million) in the leasing of uninhabited islands in the […]
Parliament of Maldives, on last Tuesday, has begun debates over the amendments put forward to the Maldives Anti-Human Trafficking Act. Jeehan Mohamed, the Parliamentary representative of Lhaviyani Atoll’s Hinnavaru constituency proposed the most notable amendment in the bill which intends to expand the legal terminology of human trafficking. The current legal definition of human trafficking […]
An investigation has been launched into an MVR 8 million corruption scandal discovered within Maldives Ports Limited (MPL). In a tweet by MPL Chairman Mohamed Zaki (Nazaki Zaki), it was stated that the corruption took place in relation to fuel trade transactions. MPL has today issued a press statement regarding the matter. In the statement, […]
On 1st September, “Project Guardian” was launched by the Maldives Police Service, a project relevant to the police’s responsibility in ending all forms of violence against women and children. When we have a look at the monthly crime statistics by Maldives Police, domestic violence has decreased in October compared to September by nearly a half. […]
The government has made it mandatory for businesses providing accommodation for ex-pats to register their business and any unregistered business is to be fined by MVR10,000. Apart from those individuals who provide accommodation to ex-pats, businesses that provide accommodation as a service are to abide by this law. This includes employers that handle the accommodation […]
Not once, not twice. For the fifth time, the taxi driven by the Male’s only female taxi driver Aminath Waheed has been damaged while it was parked in the vicinity of the Drug Court. This has led to several questions by the public, for which an answer is needed from the Maldives Police Service. How […]
Corruption charges have been raised against former Vice President Abdulla Jihad at the Criminal Court. The Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) on Sunday revealed that the ex-VP was charged in relation to the development of K. Fushidhiggaru as a special tourism zone, a project that had caused the state to suffer a major financial loss. The […]
If you are a trader, and you see this long list of additional charges on your invoice from your agent, then consider it a red flag. A freight forwarder is an essential service provider, mostly for companies that are importing and exporting their cargo. This agent or company specializes in logistics and organizing shipments in place to […]