We Maldivian don't expect any honest ruling from supreme court.Maldives supreme court is most corrupted in the world it's a extension of dictator criminal thug regime.

Indian government is doing this purposely to control Maldives. They want us to be considered as a part of India and that's not going to happen in million years. We will not bow to "Gow Mathaa" even if we have to die without treatment...

Democracy has not taken root in the Maldives and Yameen is clearly bent on hanging on to power. The future hangs in the balance and the judges are again in a political mine-field and spotlight. Maldives has a long journey.

"Peace and tolerance" Hahahaha!

It doesn’t matter how many high ranking world voices share concerns they have no direct influence in the Maldives ‘on the ground’, other than declare the Maldives a dangerous destination and advise their nationals not to visit. This is not likely to be done in unison or by a majority of Nations, especially China who would welcome increased influence in the Indian Ocean by taking a contrary attitude. As a regular commentator since 2012 I did not join the jubilations on seeing Yameen lose the election nor think a change in this country was imminent. Just examining Yammeens behaviour over the few years should have been enough to make anyone realize that the only way to remove Yameen will be via a coup as democracy ceased to exist since he took office illegally. I am afraid its buiness as usual.

no one is talking about the flat forms! There are many people who got the flats under corruption! Wht about the rightful people who got less than 40 points ! They were judged based on the first page of the flat form! No one read the information which was written at the second page! 'The haalathu' was never undergone! Yet! Claiming the rightful citizens should get just 40 or 30 while the people who have houses and flats got more than that! Wht justice is this?!

ACC and HDC officials are most corrupted.With incoming government there planning to loot housing plots from Hulhumale.There too much worried if Yameen distributed all housing plots to poor needy people's nothing will be left for them to steal.

Maldives all ACC officials to be tried on corruption put them to jail for life imprisonment. All this time they never open mouth about YAG. How now they got mouth? ££££££

The south Asian leaders mostly prone to corruption can be a easy bait

The cards were printed with support from International Organisation for Migration (IOM). not ILO.

GREAT TO KNOW THAT Mr. GASIM IS RETURNING BACK TO THE MALDIVES HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO MEET HIM IN PARADISE ISLAND RESORT SEVERAL TIMES. A GREAT BUSINESSMAN AND HAS GREAT INTENTIONS TO WORK AND IMPROVE MALDIVES INFRASTRUCTURE AND TOURISM SECTOR.

ALWAYS LOOKING FORWARD FOR Mr. NASHEED TO RETURN TO MALDIVES HE IS THE ONE WHO TRIED HIS BEST TO KEEP MALDIVES A DEMOCRATIC AND FREE COUNTRY GOD BLESS HIM AND SHOULD KEEP HIM SAFE ON HIS RETURN TO MALDIVES

Most interesting and surprising developments in the Maldives are taking place at great speed. Solih, the president-elect has much to think about. Yameen is going and not going at the same time. Mohamed Nasheed is going to try his luck etc.

Re: Ribbonfish caught at Faafu Dharanbooddhoo . There are 2 species. Adults live very deep and have a global distribution. Juveniles are occasionally seen in the shallows. They have long filaments on the dorsal fin that look like sea-jelly tentacles. Tim Godfrey (on behalf of Rudie Kuiter, Author Fishes of the Maldives, Atoll Editions, 2018)

Maldives is a country, that is to say it is a nation-state. It is not just a tourist resort as some people are inclined to think. Neither is it a block of sand waiting to be submerged under the Indian Ocean. There is another point to this comment piece. Maldives is not just a helpless tiny object caught in the so-called rivalry between India and China. Not only that, but Maldives is not a slave to any country in the world including Saudi Arabia. Maldives is a country, moreover, wedded to a dictatorial form of government in which freedom of speech has not yet been established, and in such a country corruption and nepotism are central and obvious features of society. Corruption and nepotism and religious fanaticism are Maldivian highlights and they are not going to go away anytime soon. By virtue of being a country, Maldives has history but like all things Maldivian, it is largely unwritten and therefore not visible to everybody's naked eyes. Some see, but most people, Maldivian and foreign, do not. Yameen and Gayoom got on quite well together until Yameen became President. Then the split started. The split ended in prison for Gayoom and 5 years' of dictatorship for Yameen and Gayoom's PPM became Yameen's PPM. Lots of important people were jailed, exiled or even murdered. For the first time in my living memory, two Supreme Court judges, one of them the Chief Justice, were unceremoniously removed virtually by Yameen waving his magic walking stick. Maldivians are, in many ways, an unpredictable people. They move with the wind and change sides as it is done virtually in no other country that I know. Rule of law and human rights do not work in this country as yet. They can even, sometimes, be portrayed as dirty words promoted by the Western foreign powers to destroy the religious homogeneity and unity of this country. Ibu, the newly elected president, is a relatively unknown person to both Maldivians and foreigners alike. I hope he will survive for 5 years in presidential office. I hope he will leave his mark on the Maldivian political scene as a very special type of leader in Maldivian history. Yameen is an experienced politician and educated man by the standards of Maldives. I, for one, would like to watch his every move with breathless interest. He might yet surprise us all by becoming a great leader of the political Opposition, the first of its kind in Maldivian history.

China! Ask the Maldivian the costs to build the bridge first! Does it really cost USD200 million to build considering materials labour and equipments comes from China! U really think every Maldivian are stupid and blind? Look, what if other countries goes to China to do likewise! Maldivian did the right thing!

My heartfelt congratulations to the brave, resilient and freedom loving people of Maldives! This is an amazing moment in history to all democratic people in the world.. As an Indian citizen we have been watching the past few years in sadness and worry.. Wonderful that democracy and human rights will bloom again in Maldives.. I am gradually turning a fan of "Ibu" Solih, and wish we had a few such intelligent and sensible politicians in India! Also, had watched your dashing Prime Minister Mr Nasheed and all the things he seems to have gone through, and I hope he gives leadership in the world especially in areas like global warming.. Just an unexpectedly happy day! I hope Maldivians learn from this recent period and take corrective measures to protect democracy in future! Congratulations again and hope the friendly and gentle people of Maldives have a great future!

Victory for democracy and the male people pratapachandran

Even the article headline says it's idols. Why are you guys so ashamed of the way we look. These sculptures are the way we look. These are no God's or Idols.

As a Maldivian living abroad in the West, in the Kafir and imperialistic West, I want to tell you that the thing I cherish most in my life in the West, is the freedom of speech that I enjoy in the West, in my case in Britain and Finland. This freedom of speech that I enjoy in the West has been denied to my fellow-Maldivians for centuries in history. After 2008, some hope that came into existence by the efforts of some of our leaders, these hopes have long been dashed to the ground because of the selfishness and incompetence of our leaders and people in general. Nobody can be blamed more for the existing lack of free speech in Maldives than the current President Yameen and his supporters in politics. The so-called anti-defamation law and several other laws implemented by the Yameen administration in Maldives have brought misery and tragedy to Maldives. In addition to bad relationships with our neighbours Sri Lanka and India, many Maldivian leaders have been compelled to flee their home country or faced arrest and imprisonment and even heavy fines like Raajje TV did. I admire China and I understand Maldivian connections with Saudi Arabia, but the lack of free speech in both China and Saudi Arabia are things that I do not admire. President Yameen seems to admire these very things that I do not admire in China and Saudi Arabia.