Island Chic’s Babble

One of the key obstacles to the development of Maldives, without debate, is the housing issues and urban congestion in the capital, Male’. It is also a major contributor towards unequal distribution of wealth and the income disparity in the country. Let me elaborate.
Majority of the resources in the Maldives, whether [...]

Cronyism, nepotism and favoritism are buzz words (literally or otherwise) within various forums involving Maldivian government employees. We have long suffered a system which has somewhat ignored the elements of meritocracy as determinants of a public servant’s path towards success.
In an ideal democracy backed with an efficient bureaucracy (a perfect example is the [...]

Even though Maldives enjoys a robust tourism industry and its revenue contributes to roughly one third of the country’s GDP, the wealth from the tourism sector lies with the top 10% of the country’s rich and affluent. The poorer Maldivians, especially those who live in the small i
slands far away from the capital [...]

The cabinet of President Elect of the Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed (Anni) was announced on Sunday. Mr. Nasheed is to be sworn in as the fourth President of Maldives on 11 November.
The new cabinet includes 14 cabinet posts, which has been downsized from the previous total of 21. Some of the previous Ministries like the Ministry [...]

I finished my Masters in Public Administration in the Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore and it was one of the most challenging and rewarding intellectual experiences I have had.

“The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy was established in 2004 with the mission of educating and training the next generation of [...]

It’s extremely easy for us human beings to criticize what other people do, point out what they are doing wrong and blame them for the things that go wrong. Maldives’ past presidency has been something of an example for what I just said.
Even though we didn’t have complete freedom of speech [...]

Now that Maldives has voted for change and we are all going to have a flavor of ‘difference’ in the way the country is governed, we must all brace ourselves for what will hit us in the near future.
From what we have all heard since the elections, it seems that the new government will be [...]

101 East of Aljazeera speaks to Asia’s longest serving leader, President of the Maldives, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and opposition candidate Mohamed Nasheed at the Maldives’ first free elections.
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In the two-part report/interview, 101 has looked at the history of democracy in the Maldives and carried out exclusive interviews with both presidential candidates and asked them why [...]

As always I love anything that’s Google or Google supported. Google’s green policies are definitely on top of my list as Climate Change is a topic very cloe to my heart (obvious reasons, my home may disappear in a couple of decades)!

Google’s recent creation of a handy energy saving calculator to [...]

I was totally in shock when I read about this news on ‘Minivan News’ yesterday. The group of men who confessed to gang-raping a fourteen year old girl on Noonu Holhudhoo, an island in the North part of Maldives, have been released and they are now threatening the girl that they will [...]