A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
The High Court on Wednesday began hearing an appeal from a man found guilty of planting a bomb near the official presidential residence in November 2015. After a secret trial, Mohamed Ubaid was handed a 17-year jail term in June last year along with co-defendants Zihan Ahmed and Thal’ath Mohamed. A fourth suspect, Mohamed Mamdhooh, […]
The original Dhivehi article was published on Vaguthu.mv website on 9th October 2017. The following is a loose translation: Indeed, Maldives has a long history. While there are stories that we take great pride in, there are many that are dismal, that we rather not want to hear and never want it to be repeated. […]
The Maldives Wednesday played down the United Kingdom’s updated travel advice to the country which said terrorists were “very likely” to carry out an attack, stressing the tropical paradise “remains one of the safest destinations in the world”. More than 100,000 Britons visited the Maldives last year, the third biggest market, up from 90,000 in […]
The British government has added the threat of a terrorist attack to its travel advisory on the Maldives. This additional category titled ‘Terrorism’ was added on Monday, and states that terrorists are ‘very likely’ to carry out an attack in the Maldives. “There’s a heightened threat of terrorist attack globally against UK interests and British […]