Maldives News
Tourism lobby scuttled rules banning resorts from selling dollars
The rules were aimed at alleviating a persisting dollar shortage and tackling an entrenched black market.
14 Feb 2017, 09:00
Maldives secured US$100m from India to shore up depleted reserve
The agreement with the Reserve Bank of India was the Maldives’ first currency swap deal.
14 Feb 2017, 09:00
Arson suspected as fires destroy wetlands in Fuvahmulah
Two fires have destroyed a wetland area equal to 35 football pitches on the southern island of Fuvahmulah. Islanders said they suspect the fires were started deliberately.
14 Feb 2017, 09:00
“I did it for my job”: government employees say they were forced to join PPM
“Our manager said that our signatures are needed for the sake of his job and ours,” an employee at STO said. Some signed up voluntarily, in the hope for getting jobs for family members.
14 Feb 2017, 09:00
President forms new tourism promotion company
Former Auditor General Niyaz Ibrahim has suggested that the government is planning to “bury” the scandal-ridden Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation and replace it with the new tourism promotion company.
12 Feb 2017, 09:00
MDP elects Hassan Latheef as new chairperson
Hassan Latheef, a prominent lawyer and former minister, was elected as the chairperson of the Maldivian Democratic Party on Friday
12 Feb 2017, 09:00
With Yameen’s re-election bid in full swing, PPM appears stronger than ever
Ministers, lawmakers and heads of state-owned companies are out campaigning in the Maldives far-flung atolls and signing up new members in the capital.
12 Feb 2017, 09:00
No corruption in use of state resources for rally marking Yameen’s third year in office
The ACC declared legal expenses from the state budget and forced attendance for civil servants because the rally was organised by the government and not the ruling party.
11 Feb 2017, 09:00
Maldives resort owners alarmed by ‘falling revenues’
Expressing concern over declining revenues, MATI called on the government to increase destination marketing activities.
09 Feb 2017, 09:00
Yameen dismisses Nasheed’s presidential ambitions as futile
Nasheed hit back today at Yameen’s criticism of MDP members revolving around the opposition leader, saying his popularity is not his fault and declaring his intention to seek the opposition party’s presidential ticket.
09 Feb 2017, 09:00
Majlis approves bill to let candidates with criminal records run for councils
MPs voted 46-19 to amend the 2010 local council elections law to allow individuals convicted of graft, bribery, drug abuse, and offences with punishments prescribed in Islamic shariah to contest three years after being pardoned or completing their jail sentence.
08 Feb 2017, 09:00
Indian mechanic’s death prompts concern over safety for migrant workers
Maheshwaran Mariappan, 27, was caught under a dump truck that he was repairing on Maamigili, Alif Dhaalu Atoll on Wednesday. The vehicle fell on his head and he died within minutes.
08 Feb 2017, 09:00
Fourth Maldivian man ‘on his way to join Syrian civil war’ arrested
A Maldivian man who attempted to cross into Syria to join the civil war there has been arrested and brought back to the Maldives, the police have said.
08 Feb 2017, 09:00
Villa takes government to court over airport seizure
A civil court judge has granted a stay on the seizure of a domestic airport leased to Jumhooree Party leader Gasim Ibrahim’s Villa Group.
07 Feb 2017, 09:00
PPM wants to let convicts contest local council elections
Opposition MPs accused the ruling party of seeking to grant the PPM’s ticket to convicts ahead of April’s local council elections.
07 Feb 2017, 09:00
Rilwan’s family goes to court for truth behind disappearance
The family filed a right to information request at the civil court asking its intervention to find out “the available facts of the events” that followed Rilwan’s abduction on August 8, 2014.
07 Feb 2017, 09:00
Clerics launch legal bid to overturn niqab-ban in schools
The petition said: “There is no doubt amongst Islamic scholars that the niqab is permissible in Islam. The only doubt is on whether it is compulsory or not.”
06 Feb 2017, 09:00
Stability, development and prosperity: Yameen’s state of the nation address
Yameen used his fourth state of the nation address to underscore the government’s achievements in 2016 and to set forth ambitious goals of creating thousands of new jobs and developing regional hospitals and airports.
06 Feb 2017, 09:00
Opposition MPs boycott annual presidential address
The main opposition Maldivian Democratic Party has decided to boycott President Abdulla Yameen’s annual state of the nation address at the official opening of the People’s Majlis for a second consecutive year.
05 Feb 2017, 09:00
Second Maldivian ‘jihadi’ on trial for fighting in Pakistan
Ahmed Naiz was charged with terrorism for allegedly participating in a foreign war, an offence that carries a jail sentence of up to 20 years.
05 Feb 2017, 09:00
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