News in brief: mosquito traps and internet prices

The Soneva resort company installed chemical-free mosquito traps in the parliament building on Thursday.

The technology to kill mosquitos without fogging or spraying insecticides was developed by scientists from a German company and pioneered in the Maldives by Dutch mosquito scientist Bart Knols, according to a press release from Soneva. The traps “emit a combination of carbon dioxide and lactic acid, attracting mosquitoes and killing them in an environmentally friendly way,” it explained.

Five traps were installed in the garden of the parliament house by Knols and Akib Jahir, Soneva’s integrated pest control manager, who trained parliament’s maintenance team and Speaker Mohamed Nasheed and MPs on the new technology.