President upholds ACC’s postponement of border control shakeup

President Mohamed Nasheed has upheld the decision to postpone development of a new electronic border control system for the Maldives in accordance with concerns by the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) over the project’s selection process.

Lithuanian ‘island of blondes’ to be shaped like giant high-heeled shoe

The Ministry of Tourism has said it still knows nothing about the proposal by Lithuanian company Olialia to develop an ‘all blondes’ resort in the Maldives, following the release of artist impressions of the design.

‘Telemedicine’ tackles geographic challenges of medicine in the Maldives

Telemedicine is a combination of medical and telecommunication equipment that allows doctors to examine patients hundreds of kilometres away, usually with the assistance of a trained nurse at the patient’s end.

The bright stars of Islam

The Islamic Golden Age of reason and science appears to have been overwhelmed by dogma in the 21st century, and a culture that produced intellectuals of the calibre of Al-Farabi and Ibn Rushd is today more closely identified by gun-toting militants, writes Yameen Rasheed.

Comment: Holy Politicians’ strategy for solving the Israel-Palestine conflict and resisting reason revealed – sort of

The arrival of Eye from Zion, a specialist Israeli NGO of ophthalmologists, appears to have presented our Holy politicians with their best campaign fodder yet.

JSC to show Civil Court samples of its extra-constitutional complaints procedure

The Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has been asked by Civil Court to provide examples of its use of a self-modified procedure for investigating complaints against the judiciary as an alternative to Constitutional stipulations, in defence against allegations of negligence.