“It’s better to burn out than to rust,” former Foreign Minister and newly-appointed UN Special Rapporteur on Iran tells Minivan News, describing the push for reform on both sides of the country’s first democratic election, the extent of PR firm Hill & Knowlton’s involvement in drafting policy and Gayoom’s use of private security firms to investigate the origins of the MDP.
A Parliament Watch report produced by Transparency Maldives documents a year of disrupted sittings, absent MPs, constitutional failings and lack of accountability of the legislature.
Resolution requests an investigation into “the biggest corruption case in the history of the Maldives”.
Abdullah Adam asks how one could objectively compare the suffering of a child at Auschwitz with the suffering of a child during the My Lai massacre.
‘’It is not as easy as just going up to the boat captain and handing over the money,” says President’s Press Secretary Mohamed Zuhair.
Placing the politics of arrogance ahead of the slow process of democracy deprives a nation of honest and virtuous politicians, buries the common good and on its tomb, plants the seeds of political power and waters it with the greed and lust of an emerging generation of crass, shackled and morally stunted politicians, writes Era Ali.
The Sri Lanka-based National Insurance Trust Fund (NITF) has announced plans to move into the insurance markets of the Maldives and Bangladesh after posting Rs. 2.7billion (US$24million) in profit over the last six months, local news reports have said.
This so-called “threat” to our statehood and economy comes only from those who seek to stoke baseless controversy for mere political drama, writes Yameen Rasheed.
“We have more than enough political forums, but not enough is being done to allow businesses to talk on a purely technical level,” President of the Maldives Association of Construction Industry (MACI) said during roundtable sessions on the government’s economic reforms.