Day: September 30, 2010

Houses to be built on Naifaru

Twenty five new houses are to be built on Naifaru under the government housing scheme. President Mohamed Nasheed launched the project on the island yesterday.

The government had pledged to build 10,000 housing units under the scheme.

Agreements were signed between the government and A Man Maldives Pvt Ltd, Amin Construction Pvt Ltd and Swift Engineering Pvt Ltd at a special ceremony yesterday. Under the terms of their contract, the builders are obliged to start work on their sites within 21 days.

All the new houses on Naifaru will be three-bedroom houses with two floors.

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Democracy must empower women if it is to be credible: Dr Shaheed

Democracy in the Maldives would have little credibility if it failed to empower the country’s women, Foreign Minister Dr Ahmed Shaheed has told the Council for a Community of Democracies.

The Council, which includes President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaite, President of Libera Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf and former Prime Minister of New Zealand Helen Clark, convened to discuss female representation in democracies and other issues pertaining to the empowerment of women.

Dr Shaheed told the Council that the Maldives has yet to adequately include women in its major democratic bodies, and that the exclusion of half of any given population from public and political life rendered notions of democracy hollow, and marginalising a large portion of society.

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