The decision to waive off import duty levied on essential food items necessary for good health, medicines and diesel fuel aimed at lowering the cost of living is a good move by the government but that the intended benefits will only reach the people if the prices of good in the markets decrease proportionately, members [...]
Info Fish Governing Council’s 23rd Convention was inaugurated yesterday by the Minister of Fisheries and Agriculture Dr. Ibrahim Didi. The convention, which will continue till the 18th of this month, is to be conducted in the conference hall of the Islamic Centre. The inauguration ceremony was attended by senior officials and representatives of the fisheries [...]
President’s Office in a press release issued on Thursday has revealed that the government of the newly installed President Mohamed Nasheed has completed 10 main tasks in the first 30 days since the government assumed power.
President Office said that the government during the past month gave top priority to expedite introduction of decentralized administration [...]
A fisheries training center is to be established before the end of the year to provide training and skills on fisheries related activities, Minister of State for Fisheries and Agriculture Dr. Ibrahim Didi has said.
Minister Didi made the statement in his address given on the occasion of national fisherman day marked every year on [...]
Out of the 600 prisoners serving their sentences in Maafushi Jail, 119 have been paroled and transferred over to family custody.
The Press Secretary of the President’s Office, Mohamed Zuhair, said on Sunday that those who had been released were prisoners who had already completed their parole program, interviews, and been due to be released [...]
Minister of State for Home Affairs Ahmed Shafeeg, and Deputy Undersecretary of the President’s Office Nazil Afeef has expressed that newly installed government of President Mohamed Nasheed (Anni) was working on a program to supplement the already existing program under which prisoners serving time for various offenses are reviewed, their sentences reduced or released.
The [...]
Dr. Ibrahim Didi said that the government is working hard to get better rates for Maldivian fish products abroad and to penetrate the European market.
Dr. Didi said yesterday that he has been working on the issue on a recent unofficial trip to the United Kingdom.
“I’m very keen to open up our products to [...]
President Mohamed Nasheed has said that the government wants to reduce the interest rates for loans to local fisherman, as part of its efforts to develop the fisheries sector.
Speaking at Ha Dhiddhoo, the President said that he hopes that there will be lower rates of interest charged on loans for fisheries activities and that [...]
The delay in implementation of the fourth power developmental project is due to a lack of governmental cooperation, the State Electric Company’s (STELCO) Managing Director Dr. Zaid Mohamed has said.
The project was proposed in 2005 to increase the capacity of electricity production after consulting with local and foreign parties, but has not received adequate [...]
126 prisoners of Maafushi Jail will be transferred to house arrest today following a Government decision to shift them temporarily to Male to conduct life skills programs and facilitate parole board hearings to decide if they could be released on bail, State Minister of Home Affairs Ahmed Mujuthaba has told Miadhu daily. The prisoners, many [...]
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