A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
Ever since the pandemic entered the Maldives, former president and current Speaker of the Parliament Mohamed Nasheed has been criticised several times due to his statements such as “parliamentarians among COVID-19 frontline workers” and “restricting entry is not a feasible solution”. However, could he be right about one thing? During July, Nasheed stated that the […]
Imran Abdulla, Minister of Home Affairs, has stated that jails are now packed by an excess of 340 inmates. The minister was summoned to the Parliament earlier today, and during a line of questioning, revealed that the number of those that are currently in jail is roughly 1700. The full capacity of the correction services […]
State-Owned Enterprises (SOE) Committee of Parliament has concluded that the major spikes in salary and additional allowances of the senior officials of Island Aviation Services (IAS) were against the policies and procedures. Due to various complaints on social media by different individuals pointing towards unacceptable high spikes in salaries of IAS management, the SOE Committee […]
The Maldives accedes to the Revised Kyoto Convention to become the 124th contracting party. The International Convention on the simplification and harmonization of Customs procedures (as amended), known as the Revised Kyoto Convention is the blueprint for modern and efficient Customs procedures in the 21st century. The Convention elaborates several key governing principles- chief among these […]
According to the report presented by the Whole House Committee’s chair, Parliament Speaker Mohamed Nasheed, the government debt currently stands at MVR 172 billion. The seven types of debts stated in the report include: Loans taken from foreign nations: 49 loans totalling MVR 13 billion. Loans taken from international organizations and institutions: 124 loans totalling […]
Minister of Tourism Mausoom has participated in the UNWTO 6th Global Tourism Crisis Committee meeting. Discussions were focused on coordinated, resilient and safer tourism and formulating and implementing a harmonised protocol for travel. “We’re meeting at the 6th Global Tourism Crisis Committee with a clear goal: to take actions towards tourism recovery. More than ever, […]
Prosecutor General’s office has declared that no one is to be accused regarding the ventilator issue, which was described as “corruption in broad daylight”. According to PG Office, the issue has been investigated and a decision has been made to decline it. A press conference is to be held today regarding the decision by the […]
During the ceremony held to introduce PPM loyalty cards, the Vice President of PNC, MP Mohamed Saeed announced that a sports cafe’ will be opened by PPM for the youth. MP Saeed outlined during the ceremony that modern changes are required to operate political parties and that the former president Abdulla Yameen is putting effort […]
Our Social Medias are filled with it. We have countless talks on it. And yet, it has never been able to generate effective results. After all, why complain, when nothing is going to change? It won’t change unless of course, something about is done about it. “We can’t have any positive social change without someone […]