Yameen hits back at Gayoom’s criticism of development vision
Yameen hit back at Gayoom who had said that he was impressed by a group of young people he had met who did not “believe the Maldives should become another Singapore.”
17 May 2016, 9:00 AM
President Abdulla Yameen has hit back at criticism from his half-brother and former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom over his development vision for the Maldives.
Gayoom, in a Facebook post on May 12, had said that he was impressed by a group of young people he had met who did not “believe the Maldives should become another Singapore.”
The post was widely perceived as a shot at Yameen’s plan for the Maldives, which envisions the relocation of more than 70 percent of the country’s population, currently dispersed across some 200 islands, to the reclaimed island Hulhumalé near the capital Malé.
His administration is meanwhile borrowing more than US$1billion for a host of megaprojects, also concentrated near Malé, including a US$800million project to develop the main airport, a US$210million bridge connecting Malé, the airport island Hulhulé and Hulhumalé, and housing projects in the new “youth city.”
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