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Maldives

  1. Largest and Most populated islands
  2. Census 2006
  3. Island sizes
  4. Maps of Maldives
  5. Local Councils as per Decentralization Act (2010/15) 
  6. Atoll Facts: before and after Presidential Decree (2010/15) on inhabited islands of the Maldives
  7. Islands Proposed as one administrative Unit (island) for the upcoming referendum: Population before and after merger
  8. Latest Statistics on Maldives: Contains statistics on all aspects such as geography, education, employment, tourism, trade, national accounts

Laws

  1. Constitution new (Dhivehi)
  2. Constitution (English)
  3. Old Constitution (Dhivehi)
  4. Decentralization act
               Ist amendment
              2nd amendment
   5. Judicature Act
              Dhivehi
              English
  6. Civil service commission act
  7. Employment Act
  8. Other laws (Dhivehi)
  9. Other laws (English translations)


Trade related

  1. Ministry of Tourism and arts
  2. Ministry of Trade

Employment related

  1. Civil Service Commission
  2. Labour Tribunal
  3. Ministry of Human Resources, Youth and Sports



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A Nation Sold Out!

We often talk about how corrupt are the politicians and those who are in high offices. I would say all of us are bonded through the chain corruption. First we sell our vote to the highest bidder, digging our own grave. The members than sell his/her vote to the Ultimate Buyer for money, position, power and so on The Ultimate Buyer, instead of meeting our demands, controls the members through the chain of corruption; we become helpless and our hopes for a decent life and a prosperous future gone. We cry, and whine saying how corrupt is the Majlis, the government and each and everyone who are in positions of power. After 21 days* we forget about everything and go about our lives and in between if some need arise, we beg the member or the Ultimate Buyer the member or the Ultimate buyer fulfills the need, on the promise of selling our vote again. It’s a vicious circle My request to Mps - to include vote buying/selling undue inducement as a criminal offence
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1000 islands, 1000 opportunities

Often we are bombarded with messages stating, we do not have any natural resources and therefore we are poor. Just because we do not have oil does not mean we lack natural resources to move our economy forward. When you think of it, the 1000 more islands are the natural resources we have. We are using less than 150 islands for industrial purposes. The rest is untouched and unused. Tourism has shown that each island can be turned into multi million dollar cash generating investments. However, the problem is policy makers seems unable to think beyond tourism. Policies in assigning islands for industrial purposes need to be reviewed and prevent over concentration on tourism in a single atoll. Within the atolls (including Kaafu and other atolls that has high concentration of tourism), islands can be leased to fisheries, agriculture, education, health, and many more other industries and make them easily accessible for people to go for jobs or to acquire goods and services. Build
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Lessons from Worlds’ most expensive ‘concrete junkyard’!

These days, the talks of creating other cities like Male’ is the buzz word. Nobody knows how the Majlis will decide on the issue of granting, another island(s), except Male’, city status by law. The purpose of this post is not to marvel, at the sincerity and commitment of those Mps (especially from the atolls) to meaningful regional development. The million dollar question is do we really want to repeat the Male’ experience?  Male’ is the health capital, educational capital, infrastructure capital, industry and commerce capital, political capital ...etc of the Maldives. The residents and non-residents alike are paying the price of someone putting all eggs in one basket by squeezing everything under the sun in this tiny place.   There seems to be no end to the rat race for using each and every square meter of land in Male’ for housing shops, offices, Godowns, workshops.....The trees, sun and fresh air have no place here and the ‘ sunny side of life ’ belongs to tourists only,
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