After a legacy of free healthcare provided by the RAF, Hithadhoo Regional Hospital is in bad shape, with crumbling walls, unstable voltage, barely enough beds and no air-conditioning. Post operative patients swelter in temperatures akin to a sauna and the hospital is in desperate need of improvement, writes Donna Richardson.
Bank of Maldives (BML) Chairman Adam Manik was grilled by irate shareholders at a general meeting held last night to elect two new members to the national bank’s board of directors.
Two years after the current Maldivian government assumed power, democracy most certainly has not become ‘the only game in town’, writes Azra Naseem for Himal magazine.
Each of the stones thrown at Mohamed El-Baradei represents an attempt to silence critique, to overwhelm reason with violence, to suppress disagreement with intimidation, an attempt to abort democracy in the womb, writes Yameen Rasheed.
The government will refund buyers of four plots from the southwest harbour after the Civil Court ruled earlier this month that the sales were illegal, Male’ Mayor “Sarangu” Adam Manik told local media yesterday. Adam Manik however revealed that the Attorney General’s Office will appeal the Civil Court’s ruling, which held that President Mohamed Nasheed’s … Continue reading Government to refund harbour plot buyers
Knowing very well that the skeletons in the ‘cupboard’ would be dug out, [former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom] did the right thing in seeking a deal so that he was left out of harm’s way, writes Dr S Chandrasekharan for the Eurasia Review.
Opposition factions accuse each other of collusion with government as DRP Deputy Leader Ali Waheed calls upon party council to terminate coalition agreement with minority opposition People’s Alliance.
The President of JCI, a network of young entrepreneurs, visited the Maldives last week to look at the organisation’s involvement in local development projects.
Four young Muslims professionals visiting from the UK speak to Minivan News about growing up as a Muslim in a Western society.