Winter is coming: controversial project to be finished before Ramadan

A “winter corner” for the capital’s showpiece park will be finished before Ramadan, Housing Minister Mohamed Muizzu has said.

The frosty feature, boasting the Maldives first and only ice-rink, was absent when the revamped Rasrani Bageecha park opened to much fanfare last year.

Muizzu had said the winter corner would be ready by the end of 2016 for the “social well-being” of Maldivians.

“Some may question how one might build a winter area in Maldives,” he said more than two years ago. “But it has been done in countries like ours. By the will of god, we will build it in a way that resembles a cold country and duplicates the feeling of being in a cold country.”