5 Years on, Several Tsunami Survivors Struggling to Forget the Memory
The day five years ago when an undersea earthquake unleashed a devastating wave that killed more than 220,000 people, Maldives marks the nightmare with hundreds of survivors in the country still unable to come out of the fear. read more…
Former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom has said the Climate Summit held in Copenhagen is a big failure. Gayoom said this to media yesterday on his return home from abroad. Gayoom, who has played an important role to push the issue of global warming and climate change to the international agenda, said the Summit has not produced any concrete outcome and has shattered the hopes of the world to reach a target oriented and binding accord. read more…
| Adil Salahi – Arab News | ||||||
As we go about our life we may be too busy attending to certain tasks. It may happen that we forget to offer one of our obligatory prayers on time. The omission is not deliberate; it is entirely due to having forgotten it. No negligence is intended. A similar situation is sleep. Sometimes we may sleep through the time span allowed for Fajr prayer, or another daily prayer. Before going to sleep, we form the intention to wake up on time, but because our bodies are in need of sleep we fail to wake up on time. Yet prayer is the most important duty, and we must attend to all our obligatory prayers, five each day, in their respective times. Failure to do so is sinful. So what happens in the case of forgetting a prayer, or sleeping through its time span? read more… |
The Maldivian people should be ashamed of themselves. They have become a society induced in a coma waiting for death to arrive, while the activists from MDP activated themselves to gain control of government and our nation, and now us using it to destroy what little we got and our country. It looks like we are a nation full of cowards since activist Mohamed Nasheed has become the President and made all the activists that followed him cronies, either as political appointees, or assimilated them into his aura as street activists. read more…
A new Hingaa Komitee has been elected for KIN. The election events took place
on 18 December 2009 in Kinbidhoo and Male’ at the same time.
The result are as follows….
President – Mohamed Moosa (Maheys Dhonbe)
Vice President (Male’) – Mohamed Nazim
Vice President (Kinbidhoo) – Adil Mohamed (Dhoores)
General Secretary – Ibrahim Niyaz (Hithahfinivaage)
Treasurer – Abdul Hameed
Council Members:
1. Hussain Afeef ( Kelaa)
2. Arifa Mohamed (Dhoores)
3. Ahmed Niyaz (Asurumaage)
4. Hassan Mohamed (T) Nooranuge read more…
Raees Kamah Mahesh Donbe adhi Mahir
KIN ge Hingaa komittee aa dhaurakah Inthihaabukurun Mimahu 18 vaa Hukuru dhuvahuge rey baahvaagothah hamajehifai vaakamashaai mi Jalsaa Kinbidhoo adhi Male’ ga ves eh vagutheh gai baahvaane kamah mauloomaathu libe ehve.
Ehgothun magaamuthakah kurimathilumah hulhuvaali furusathugai vanee Raees kamah 2 beyfulhaku, adhi Naaiburaees Kamah 3 bayfulhaku, adhi General Sectery kamashaai, hazaandhaaru kamah ves beyfulhaku kurimathi laafaehves. mauloomaathu libeygothugai, mimahuge 18 vana dhuvahaai hama ahves magaamuthakah kurimathi limuge furusathu vanee mihaaru hulhuvaa levifaehve. read more…
Thousands of Maldivians welcomed home the national football team last night, filling Republican Square to the brim following the team’s narrow defeat to India in the SAFF final held in Bangladesh.
Goal.com reported that despite the Maldivian team’s unlucky defeat, their prowess on the field has made them “the soccer power of South Asia” while “captain Ali Ashfag has been acclaimed as the best player in the region.” read more…
Minivan News – Maavah councilor Waleed Zakariya has claimed he was dismissed from the post earlier this month because he failed to give into demands by Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) activists on the island.
Speaking to Minivan News, Waleed said he has learned that he was fired on the request of an MDP member on the island who was unhappy with him.
“The MDP people who worked to get me fired asked me to do illegal things and made complaints to try and make me do those things,” he said, adding the actions they wanted him to take could not be taken “even by a dictator”.
Among the demands were repossessing parts of enlarged plots owned by Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (DRP) supporters and refusing to issue licenses and ID cards to them.
Waleed said some people demanded that he give out part of his salary to them and publicly refuse to provide any service to DRP supporters.
“I begged and pleaded with them and told them I can’t do those things, but they refused to accept,” he said, adding they believed the island office should pass criminal judgment on opposition members.
He added the government’s decision to dismiss him was very “irresponsible” as it was based on the complaints of “just three people”.
The three MDP activists in question had ties to high-ranking officials in the president’s office, he said.
Minivan News could not reach the president’s office press secretary for a comment at time of press.
While the MDP supporters claimed Waleed was ordered by the government to marginalize DRP supporters, Waleed said he did not receive any such orders. He had been councilor for 11 months prior to his dismissal.
A DRP supporter on the island told Minivan News that MDP “activists” did not like the councilor consulting opposition party supporters.
“They don’t even want to see him talking to anyone other than an MDP supporter,” he said.
Waleed said the DRP supporters on the island were happy with the job he had done. “I think the reason is that under my watch, I have rented out a lot of empty plots on the land to increase revenue for the people. When I took over the office, the total finances were Rf900,000. But, in these past 11 months, I have raised it to Rf2.2 million.”
MDP supporters are outnumbered by the opposition Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (DRP) on Maavah, which is represented by opposition People’s Alliance MP Abdul Azeez Jamal Abubakuru.
After the MDP supporters alleged in public that Waleed stole money from public coffers, the letter of dismissal was posted outside a popular café on the island.
Waleed said he had been approached by many islanders to express condolences and urging him to contest for the upcoming local council elections.
He said he was “100 per cent certain” that an MDP candidate would not win a seat.
Waleed said he still did not have any clear information about why he was fired when he was told about it on 3 December.
“It came as a shock to me. I said I’m at the office working right now and I haven’t heard anything either from the atoll office or the province office. And I have not been asked by anyone to clear up any information about my work. I said I found it hard to believe that I have suddenly been fired.”
He added neither the home affairs ministry nor the atoll office was informed of his dismissal even three days after the letter was sent out.
