The destruction of the environment in the Madives, particularly the mangrove forests is a prime example of human stupidity and lack of foresight. To destroy the natural safeguards to flooding and erosion for short term political or financial gains for a very few people highlights what is going wrong with the planet as a whole. Until the death penalty, or life imprisonment, or seizure of assets, or a combination of these is brought to bear on individuals who cynically profit from environmental destruction to the detriment of all, then such travesties will be repeated all over the world.

Ling live India-Maldives relation benefitting people of two countries.

Treat this man with kindness.Not sure who is waiting for him at home.Work with him to alleviate his difficulties.

Thieves should be dealt with .But in this case he stole a case of water .water is scarce in Maldives I think .he should have been pardoned in this holy month .pratap

My heartfelt thanks and deepest gratitude to Hon Mohamed Nasheed MP for becoming the Speaker of Parliament. I am sure that he will prove to be an extremely popular and liked MP in Parliament and the country. He may well end up being voted the Speaker for Life, an honour that has not yet been accorded to anybody in any country, let alone our archipelago.

Mr Mohamed Nasheed, MP, can be the Speaker of Parliament, Leader of the House, Leader of the ruling party the MDP, and finally even President of the Republic all at the same time. He is currently on the crest of a wave of public support on an unprecedentedly massive scale. Maldives has, as a country, a long and wellknown history of dictatorship and one-man rule. I saw with my own naked eyes the regimes of Ibrahim Nasir and his successor Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. More recenly, and not long ago, we had the grand show put on for us all by President Yameen Abdul Gayoom. He took all state powers into his own hands. Maldives also has a long history of family rule. Gayoom ruled with his family. These dictatorial traditions have not disappeared yet, and an established democracy cannot yet be taken for granted. Mohamed Nasheed must not become the next dictator of Maldives even though as a concensus candidate of the ruling party MDP MPs.

Former President of Maldives Mohamed Nasheed has been continuously alleging Maldives and repeating it through out world since Feb 8th 2012. In fact he gave numbers etc. FM Abdulla Sahid too has supported Nasheed in many occasions....... Why blame General Mahesh!

So much for the so-called zero tolerance to corruption. This government is even more tolerant of robbing the state than the previous one.

Virus ≠ Bacteria Learn the difference. It may save your life.

the third world wants sympathy? humans are trash, disgustingly destructive vile greedy trash.

Maldives is making clear progress all round to bring freedom and democracy to the people of the country. One of the top priorities now is to empower women. Maldives has a small population and we need to harness the talents of women to supplement those of men. We also need to practise the best in Islam and avoid using Islam to attack and even kill people. I hope that all the aspirations of MDP will be smoothly understood and realised.

I have been following Maldives politics with the help of Maldives Independent newswebsite and the BBC, from my location in distant Finland. Finland and India are also in election fever grip and exciting things are happening in those countries also, in addition to what is going on in Maldives. In Britain something a little bit different takes place currently. It is called Brexit, Brexit and yet again Brexit. But nothing matches the events taking place in the Maldives where my ancestors lived and where my close relatives and friends live to this day. My mother-tongue, Divehi, is spoken in the Maldives too, and only in the Maldives. My party of choice in the Maldives is doing very well and winning. But victory and political power also entails responsibility. Very many congratulations to the MDP. More later.

MP Nihan and the PPM have made it a habit to bribe judges and abuse power to rig elections. They have attempted this every single time in recent years. It's now time to bring Nihan and his cronies both senior and junior to justice. Qasim Ibrahim and his cronies need to be held accountable as well. He has betrayed the Government coalition and joined his former jailer to continue with his corrupt activities. It's time for our country to stand up and throw these criminals in jail. We call upon the Government to deliver justice with the votes we give them.

A 17 year old is a "child"? Someone having a relationship with such a person, whom he later marries, is a "child sex offender" and gets 10 years in jail? What a strange place. Wondering what the tourists - many of whom come from places where 14 and 15 year olds are considered in charge of their sexual conduct - think of this. And if they really want to spend their tourist dollars in such a place.

PO sends the mushimas home but hides the kanneli. The mushimas together took some hundred thousand in total. Kanneli took millions. Why hunt mushimas and ignore the kanneli? We were told everyone will be given the same treatment - send them home while they are investigated. The corruption starts and ends at the PO. That's why zero tolerance means zero action.

In Countries where there are laws that enable apostates and blasphemers to be murdered , quite often when a case appears it would expose the country to a lot of global media exposure and international pressure . Therefore governments try to avoid such situations as much as possible except a few like Saudi where media is restricted. This is why most governments try not to or delay sentencing them to death through the Courts. Rather it will be quite attractive for them to avoid this negative exposure by killing them without a judicial process but murdering them through gangs and thugs. or perhaps there are extremists on the watch with a target list who take the matter into there hands since killing them through the judicial process and Government may not be easy .

What's the point? In a few years, they will just want to build another building and destroy the area again.

Budhu is actually a Buddhist era word. Like locally Wednesday is called Budha Duvas, the celestial body, the meaning is associated primary with wisdom, and with intellect, language skills, education & Scholarship. It's belived 5he word was adopted by followers of Gautama, to mean the 2ise on or the enlightened one, as he was seen a person of the mind rather than superstition. As such the languages of the region as the word "Budhi" to mean intellect. Later the word took on a new meaning in the converted Budhist regions of Persian Afghanistan and north Indian, with the foreign Muslim rule. Later Dhivehins word meaning is derived as such from Urdu.

Maldivians cannot deny the fact that, India help them in educational and medical sector since before many decades. The Chinese came into picture only after 2012. Chinese cannot full fill the cultural bond BETWEEN India and Maldives.

Maldives faces a lot of problems. Lack of a competent and independent judiciary is only one of them. The last president, Yameen, systematically manipulated the judiciary. He was able to do it because all previous rulers also did it, and they did it openly. Maldives is not yet a democracy and I find it difficult to believe that it will become a democracy anytime soon. A poor judicial system is the biggest nightmare of all the many Maldivian nightmares.