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Continue reading →: Reinventing the Wheel of Local Governance
[The following is a glimpse of a piece of my mind. You are not required to believe it, to accept it, nor to act upon it. Please read at your own risk. It is not my intention, to promote it; but to exercise my right of freedom of thought.] The…
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Continue reading →: Government defeated by the Party for a second time in a week
The government of President Nasheed seem to have been defeated for a second time in a row in a matter of just one week. First, the government team was defeated by the MDP parliamentarians in a football match held to commemorate the sixth anniversary of the Party. Later today, the…
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Continue reading →: New CEO at Male’ Health Services Corporation
Haveeru has revealed that the Managing Director Male’ Health Services Corporation (MHSC) has been replaced by British national Catherine Jane Waters. Presidential Spokesperson Mohamed Zuhairu is reported to have said that the appointment was to improve the services of the hospitals and health centers under the corporation. And to design…
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Continue reading →: Mining Your Company’s Talent
Mining Your Company’s Talent by Douglas R. Conant in Harvard Business Review Have you ever worked with someone who made your own job difficult? Someone who forced you to pick up the slack, or who had “personality issues”? Such people make you feel like you’re working two jobs — theirs…
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Continue reading →: Excuses for not delegating
Duncan Brodie of Goals and Achievements helps accountants and health professionals to become highly effective leaders and managers. He invites you to take advantage of his free audio e-course Leadership Success at www.goalsandachievements.co.uk He writes: Ask managers what their biggest challenges are and the chances are delegation will appear as one…
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Continue reading →: Prevent the Twitter Unfollow: Tips from a Twitter User
Prevent the Twitter Unfollow: Tips from a Twitter User.
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Continue reading →: Note from My Daughter
I received the following note hand written on a circle of white paper of 6.5cm radius, when I came home from work this evening. It was a note from my daughter Almas. “You are so helpful and caring to your children. You are so brave. You can solve all the…
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Continue reading →: Media Freedom and Personal Integrity and Majlis
Haveeru has reported that MPs have spoken for medium freedom and against attacks on the media from the parliament floor, where all the deliberations are broadcast live. MPs including parliamentary leader of MDP and parliamentary leader and the only member of Qawmee Party are said to have spoken against the…
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Continue reading →: Baarah: fingers of three year old crushed in a rice grinder
Haveeru has reported that the hand of a three year old has been crushed in a rice grinder. The child’s hand was removed from the grinder in which it was stuck, by a surgeon and a mechanical engineer after the child was taken to the hospital in Kulhudhuffushi. According to…
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Continue reading →: Madaveli: two people arrested for attempted rape of thirteen year old girl
Sun has reported that two people have been arrested by the Police for the attempted rape of a 13 year old girl, in Madaveli, Gaaf Dhaal Atoll. It reports that Maldives Police Service spokesperson SIP Ahmed Shiyam has revealed that two men are being held for investigation after they had…
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Continue reading →: Dhidhdhoo: Protestors calling for the release of a person detained by Police during the previous demonstration calling for the release of a person accused of sexual abuse of 13 year old, clash with and injure police officers
Police officers have been injured in clashes with demonstrators, in Haa Alif Dhidhdhoo; Sun and Haveeru have reported. The local media reports say that demonstrators clashed with Police, after police custody of a person detained by the Police for investigation in the previous days clashes was exteded by the local…
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Continue reading →: One in five, one in five, are people and their welfare just another statistic to the government?
Are the people who elect them and empower them to run the business of the State, just a bit of statistic to the government? This is a question that I ponder myself over, on many occasions. At such instances, the government seems to me more like a donor agency –…
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Continue reading →: Di Naina: tempat makanan saya di subang jaya
During my stay in Malaysia this time, I am staying at Casa Tiara in Subang Jaya. There is a wonderful Iranian restaurant and Italian restaurant downstairs. However, my crowd – friends of my son, frequent Di Naina – which is a food outlet about 3 minutes walk from our residence.…
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Continue reading →: President Nasheed opens his weekly address this week with “sincere thanks to the people, especially the business community” for their patience, and trust and confidence in the government
President Nasheed in his 93rd radio address to the nation, hjas expressed his gratitude to the public and the bsiness community for their understanding of his devaluation of the Maldivian Rufiyaa, and the confidence and trust in the government shown by the public and the business community. He said expressed…
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Continue reading →: A university campus island for the Maldives
I have been in Malaysia for ten days now. It is a long way away from the troubles at home in Male’ – the ongoing killings, street violence, reports of sexual child abuse on an epdiemic scale, rule of anarchy and power in the hands of street gangs and looters…
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Continue reading →: Special Education Teacher under investigation for the sexual abuse of disabled children he tutored
A teacher who gave private tuition to children with hearing disability has been arrested by the police and is under investigation after being accused of sexual abuse of children he tutored. He was taken into custody for investigation on Monday, reports the local media. The teacher under investigation is Mr.…
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Continue reading →: Man accused of sexually molesting with fourteen year old boy arrested
A 42 year old man accused of sexually molesting with a 14 year old boy has been arrested and is under investigation by the Police in Feydhoo, Addu atoll, local media has reported. The man was reported to the police by the boy’s family members, wh have said that the…
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Continue reading →: Crowds gather in front of police station calling for the release of those accused of child abuse and gather at the house of the victims calling for her arrest
Sun and Haveer has reported of demonstrations in Dhidhdhoo of Haa Alif atoll for the release of those held in Police custody, for the alleged sexual abuse of a 13 year old girl. It has been reported too that the girl is the daughter of a woman of Dhidhdhoo married…