Archive for the ‘politics’ Category

Behind the mask

So, I keep on wondering, why all the fuss about Israel. It is like the world is about to end! Everything is about to end, because Maldives is to sign peace agreements with Israel. There is no other conclusion, but it is mere politics. Let us be reasonable.
The Salafs: During Gayyoms regime they were silent. [...]

Direction, good or bad?

Recently I have started cutting down expenditure on ‘leisure’, and started thinking more seriously on utilizing my income in better ways. I believe this is something that I should have done since a long time back. Anyhow, thanks to the governments economical policies and the decision to cut down salary.
When a government’s actions and decisions [...]

MP, Ilyas Labeeb launches his official website

Seenu Atoll Hulhudhoo Meedhoo MP, Ilyas Labeeb launches his official website @ www.ilyaslabeeb.org

Hassan Saeed Speaks!

After a lengthy period of silence Dr. Hassan Saeed’s Quwmee Party sends a letter to the Finance Minister, calling for the Finance Minister’s immediate resignation. The letter says that in order to save the Maldivians from the pain and vain they are in, the Minister should resign immediately.
In my point of view, those who have [...]

Who and who? Know your candidate!

Watching the candidate debates shown on Television Maldives astonishes me over and over again, every day. I do respect and honor their courage coming in front of cameras and trying to express their ideas and views. However, some of them, just some, I am certain, even make the people of their constituency ashamed! There are [...]

Sheikh Shaheem Ali Saeed & Dr.Abdul Majeed Abdul Bari; hypocrites?

With a new government, new hopes and new thinking, everything is going towards a positive direction. Towards Aneh Dhivehi Raajje. But the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, seems to be trying to change everything the way they want. At occasions sheikhs of the Islamic Ministry have said with evidence from Hadith that shaving or even shortening [...]

How sensible is the Islamic Ministry?

While I was going through the news headlines as usual, it was ‘offensive’ to see headlines stating that the Ministry of Islamic Affairs has ordered the banning of certain websites. One of the websites blocked includes http://randomreflexions.com/, a website that is managed by Simon. In general what Simon writes on his website are informative and [...]

Rejected, yet unconvinced?

If there is a single lesson that Gayyom should have had learned from the last presidential election is that the Maldivians have rejected him. Beyond any and every doubt, Maldivians have said NO to Gayyom. Maldivians have labeled him a dictator, and rejected him for the good of this country and its people. When [...]

Change of official working hours

I have read on Haveeru online, three articles written by Hamdhoon, Idrees and Yoosuf on three consecutive days from 25th January. What they had tried, in my understanding, is to promote their way of thinking on the changes made by the government on official working hours. It seems that their basic idea is to feed [...]

Dr. Abdul Majeed and the banning of discos!

It came as shocking news for several people, specially the youth of Maldives, to hear that the discos organized in order to celebrate the New Year was banned by the Islamic Affairs Ministry. And it was more shocking that the Islamic Ministry advised the police to stop such discos that were planned to be held [...]