JJ Robinson
JJ Robinson is advisor to the Maldives Independent. He was editor of Minivan News (Maldives Independent’s precursor) from 2009-2013, and went on to spend eight years in media development supporting more than a hundred outlets operating in autocracies all over the world, from Belarus to Venezuela. He is the author of Maldives: Islamic Republic, Tropical Autocracy (Hurst 2015). He tells anyone who will listen that mashuni roshi is the world’s best breakfast.
BBC team detained, tortured by Gaddafi forces
10 Mar 2011, 2:15 PM
Municipality civil servant first to be suspended in Facebook blackmail scandal
09 Mar 2011, 6:06 PM
Maldives celebrates International Women’s Day
08 Mar 2011, 6:19 PM
“Shared corruptions” with Maldives worth hundreds of millions, reports Democratic Voice of Burma
07 Mar 2011, 4:19 PM
Maldives’ first Islamic bank opens for business
07 Mar 2011, 12:55 PM
Saudi Arabia bans protests, drafts troops ahead of weekend demonstration
06 Mar 2011, 5:31 PM
DRP issues statement in support of Thasmeen after criticism from Gayoom’s family
06 Mar 2011, 2:27 PM
“Staff sniggered” after tourist alleges electric shock from exposed wiring
05 Mar 2011, 7:29 PM
Economic stability threatened by “significant policy slippages”, warns IMF
01 Mar 2011, 5:32 PM
President appoints Korean pop singer honorary consul of Maldives in Korea
28 Feb 2011, 4:30 PM
Adhaalath claims tourists openly drinking alcohol, wearing bikinis on Hulhumale’ beach
28 Feb 2011, 3:18 PM
Deploy UN peacekeepers to Libya, urges Maldives President
27 Feb 2011, 7:37 PM
Runaway judiciary leaves the Maldives “at a dangerous junction”, says Velezinee
26 Feb 2011, 5:00 PM
Employer in Bangladeshi burial dispute was “shying from responsibility”: High Commissioner
24 Feb 2011, 7:50 PM
UN Security Council meets as Gaddafi vows “to die a martyr”
23 Feb 2011, 3:35 PM
Q&A: Former UK MP for Salisbury Robert Key talks democracy in the Maldives
22 Feb 2011, 7:53 PM
Male’ will not survive without resolving housing, congestion and fuel challenges: President Nasheed
22 Feb 2011, 11:52 AM
One in seven Maldivian secondary students have been sexually abused, finds 2009 report
21 Feb 2011, 6:04 PM
Immigration Controller to exchange roles with National Disaster Management chief
21 Feb 2011, 12:44 PM
Libyan army guns down demonstrators, UK backs away from Bahrain
20 Feb 2011, 12:18 PM
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