A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
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 […]
The government has announced that they will be delivering care packages to Maldivians residing in Kochin and Trivandrum in India. Ministry of Foreign Affairs has revealed that Maldivian cargo flight will be delivering the care packages to India on April 11. Ministry has further stated that due to limited space in cargo flights, services 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 […]
The Government of the Maldives’ decisive, transparent and effective reaction to the COVID-19 outbreak is welcomed by the European Union and its Member States. This collaborative approach, which allowed for the swift and orderly repatriation of European tourists, has been appreciated by all. In addition to the coordination of certain flights back to Europe, the […]
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 […]
President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has decided to extend the closure of all government offices, schools, colleges and universities for another week as a precautionary measure against the COVID-19 pandemic. The decision was announced following the advice from the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of National Emergency Operation Centre (NEOC) in respect to the rapid global spread […]