A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
A local boat travels out of the Male harbour in rough seas. PHOTO: NISHAN ALI/MIHAARU National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC) said on Saturday that homes in 57 islands across the Maldives were damaged by the severe weather caused by the cyclone that originated off the coast of neighbouring Sri Lanka during the weekend. According to […]
Maldives Association of Travel Agents and Tour Operators, MATATO, in partnership with McQuire Rens & Jones, is bringing another series of training programs targeted for the hospitality industry. Two separate training programs are scheduled for 13th and 14th December respectively. McQuire Rens & Jones is a leading training institute based in Sri Lanka, featuring a […]
IMF’s Deputy Division Chief Philippe Karam speaks at press conference at the end of IMF’s annual visit to Maldives. PHOTO: HUSSAIN WAHEED/MIHAARU The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised concerns over the “volatility” of the Maldives’ economic growth. IMF had released a report on Friday, detailing the views of its Executive Board expressed in October, […]
Weeks before the trip, the children pestered us about where we were headed for the summer. Instead of telling them outright, we played a game. A sliding scale of ‘crypticity’, so to speak, the closer to the holiday the less cryptic the clues became. The first clue deceptively read like the names of Poseidon’s daughters. […]
Spread over not much more than a dozen acres of a white-sand islet within a Maldivian atoll, Milaidhoo Island Maldives is not at all a large place as resorts go. Should you seldom see any other people as you stroll the grounds, however, that’s by design. Guests who arrive by seaplane are introduced to Milaidhoo […]
Words and photos by Maldives surf guide Bob Fawcett Video of Taylor Knox and Matt Griggs’ Male trip by Paul Borrud A persistent southwesterly wind and some slow-moving storms tried to hamper the late season in the Maldives, but, with regular pulses of swell, those in the know scored big time. From south to north, […]
IMAGE: A scene from Male, the Maldivian capital. The man in the posters is Abdulla Yameen, the Maldives’ president. Photograph: Reuters This week, China and the Maldives signed a Free Trade Agreement that took India by surprise. ‘Agreements signed between the Maldives and China have seriously worried India,’ reports Aditi Phadnis. Mohamed Nasheed, the ousted […]
President Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom has conveyed, in separate messages, felicitations of the 46th National Day of the United Arab Emirates to the President of the United Arab Emirates and Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces, His Royal Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab […]
Tropical Cyclone OCKHI-17 can have a medium humanitarian impact based on the Maximum sustained wind speed and the affected population and their vulnerability. Updated: this report is based on advisory number 12: (02 Dec 2017 16:19). Tropical Cyclone Hurricane/Typhoon > 74 mph (maximum wind speed of 185 km/h) from 29 Nov 2017 18:00 UTC to […]