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Police charge three people for drinking alcohol in 2010

Police have submitted for prosecution a case involving three people alleged to have possessed and consumed alcohol almost three years ago, on October 28, 2010, reports local media.

Police arrested Ahmed Minthaz, 45, Ahmed Ahlam, 42 and Risma Umar, 23 in a rented apartment in Male’, after discovering three glasses and one bottle of alcohol on a table in the room. A further four bottles of alcohol were discovered in the apartment, police stated.

The three suspects tested positive for alcohol during a breathalyzer test, police said, and the case was finally sent for prosecution on July 30, 2013.

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Elections Commission confirms ballot boxes in New Delhi and Singapore

The Elections Commission (EC) has confirmed that ballot boxes will be present in New Delhi and Singapore, after both venues received the minimum number of registrations, reports local media.

Expatriate Maldivians who have re-registered to vote in locations outside their home islands will be able to vote in New Delhi, Trivandrum, Colombo, Kuala Lumpur, London and Singapore.

The EC will deploy 480 ballot boxes in the election, including 122 in Male and 55 on resorts and prison islands.

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Police arrest Maldivian, Russian for possession of two cannabis plants

Police have arrested two people in connection with the discovery of two cannabis plants inside an apartment on Hulhumale’.

In a statement police said the plants were confiscated during a special operation conducted by the Drug Enforcement Department (DED) on Saturday afternoon.

According to police the two plants were found inside Hulhumale’ flat number 10219.

Police stated that the two plants were kept inside a bucket on the balcony of the apartment.

A 26 year-old Maldivian man and a 31 year-old Russian woman were arrested in connection with the case, police said.

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Voter re-registration exceeds expectations: EC

The number of voters re-registering to vote in locations other than their home islands has exceeded predictions, reports the Elections Commission (EC).

The EC said that by the closure of the August 8 deadline, 65,745 people had re-registered, surpassing original estimates of 65,000, “a great response”.

EC President Fuwad Thowfeek told local media 61,130 re-registrations had been completed, and was waiting to receive 3115 forms from resorts and political parties, and a further 1500 from the islands, but warned that incomplete or invalid forms could change the final tally.

The EC will publish the final voter registry on August 20.

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Court extends detention of man accused of beating wife unconscious

Police have arrested a 33 year-old man charged with physically abusing his wife on Vilingili in Gaaf Alif Atoll, reports Haveeru, after the wife’s family reported the abuse.

The Vilingili magistrate court extended the detention of Ahmed Mueed by 15 days, while the woman has been hospitalised in Male.

Haveeru reported the victim’s brother as alleging that the woman was severely bruised and unable to speak properly, after Mueed beat her unconscious in front of their four year-old step daughter.

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Police investigating theft of MVR 500,000 from immigration department

Police are investigating the theft of more than MVR 500,000 (US$32,425) from the Department of Immigration.

The money was stolen from a safe over the weekend, according to a statement from police. The money was reported missing at 9:00am on Saturday.

Police said the thieves climbed over a wall between between Atoll Canteen and the Ghazee building. No details were provided as to how the intruders gained access to the safe.

The immigration department has not officially commented on the theft.

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No new Home Minister to be appointed before election: President

President Mohamed Waheed has dismissed the possibility of appointing a minister of Home Affairs – with oversight of the police – before elections in September, reports Sun Online.

Former Home Minister Dr Mohamed Jameel was dismissed from the position after he sided with Progressive Party of the Maldives (PPM) candidate Abdulla Yameen, later defecting from his own Dhivehi Qaumee Party (DQP) and becoming Yameen’s running mate.

Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture Ahmed Shafeeu has since served as acting minister.

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Kolamaafushi voting venue painted yellow reports Sun Online, “orange” says Island Council President

A ballot box on the island of Kolamaafushi in Gaafu Alifu Atoll is to be placed in a building that has been painted yellow, reports Sun Online.

Citing an island council source, Sun reported that the island’s number two ballot box was to be placed in the building used by the island’s women’s committee.

Yellow is the party colour of the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), members of which make up four of the island’s five council members responsible for designating the voting venues.

The island’s other ballot box is to be hosted in the island’s school, however the Progressive Party of the Maldives (PPM) has reportedly lobbied the Elections Commission requesting the box instead be placed in the campaign hall of President Mohamed Waheed’s ‘Forward with the nation’ coalition.

According to Sun, President of Kolamaafushi Council Ahmed Jameel contended that the fence of the offending building was in fact orange.

The PPM in June called for a cease-fire in the so-called ‘paint war’ between rival political supporters, with buildings, walls and even plant-life being painted in party colours.

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Gayoom to tour northern atolls for PPM

Former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom is campaigning in the north of the Maldives on behalf of the Progressive Party of the Maldives (PPM)’s presidential candidate, Abdulla Yameen.

Local media reports that Gayoom will visit Kinolhas, Alifushi and Dhuvaafaru in Raa Atoll, Funadhoo in Shaviyani Atoll, Kulhudhuffushi in Haa Dhaalu Atoll and Dhidhdhoo in Haa Alifu Atoll.

PPM Spokesperson, MP Ahmed Mahlouf, told local media that Gayoom would be accompanied by Yameen and his running mate, former Home Minister and former Dhivehi Qaumee Party (DQP) deputy, Dr Mohamed Jameel.

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