ADAM RASHEED AHMED
Do you know who is ARUVAALI AADHANU must be a really a bad guy. No worries good or bad ARUVAALI means banished AADHANU means ADAM.
I was banished as POLITICAL PRISONER twice during 30 years of DICTATORSHIP & NEPOTISM from 1978 to 2009
Monday, August 3, 2009
Maldives paradise hit by global slowdown
Presidential yacht is first under the hammer amid tourism downturn fear
The presidential yacht, which will be auctioned - probably on eBay - with a reserve price of $7.5m (£5m).
The MALDIVES are best known as an upmarket tourist destination, where well-heeled visitors pay thousands of pounds a night to watch the sun sink into the crystal blue waters of the Indian Ocean.
But even in paradise, fears of a global slowdown are forcing drastic action. Such is the concern about declining income from tourism, the government has opted to sell off some of the most potent symbols of state. First to go is the presidential yacht, which will be auctioned - probably on eBay - with a reserve price of $7.5m (£5m).
Then there's the presidential "picnic island", a two-acre retreat for the Maldivian elite with private beaches, badminton courts, a gym and a cricket pitch. Now the island will be turned into a conference centre.
Tourism, which makes up more than a third of the islands' economy, has made the country by far the richest in South Asia, with a GDP per head in excess of $2,000. But with visitor numbers down by 5% in January, ministers say the fledging democracy needs to cut costs now.
Before the first democratic elections were held last October the tropical idyll was a virtual dictatorship. President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, who stepped down after 30 years in power, was accused of running the 1,200-long island chain as a personal playground and of siphoning off profits from tourism.
The former ruler had just completed a cavernous presidential palace before he was thrown out of office. Built at a cost of $45m and with daily running costs of $30,000, the palace will be converted into government offices for an arts council and the country's first university.
The new president says he will operate from a town house, renovated for $125,000, in the capital and his government has tried to make a virtue of the bleak outlook for the economy, saying that it no longer wants to be associated with the former emblems of autocracy.
Mohamed Nasheed, a former Amnesty prisoner of conscience who became the Maldives' first freely-elected president, says he wants to "cut back on the trappings of power" left over from the previous regime. "In a democratic society, particularly at this time of economic hardship, it isn't appropriate for a president to be cruising around in multi-million dollar yachts and padding about palaces," he said.
The savings, says the new government, will release much-needed funds at a time when it needs to pay for debts run up by the previous regime. The Maldives says it needs help to survive the current economic crisis.
"There is no money in the country. We have to live off the money that is coming in every day. When we took over as the government we inherited a huge debt without a significant reserve," said the vice-president, Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik.
Gayoom's party, the Dhivehi Rayyithunge party (DRP), denied that the former president had been lavish in his spending saying these were important images of office.
Abdulla Mausoom of the DRP said there were "more pressing issues" the government should be concerned about. "Selling a chair that the president used is not a change. They should make certain changes rather than selling off a speedboat or a dinghy. Nasheed has appointed over 68 ministers and state ministers already. If you are talking of a lean government, there are other things you should be doing," he said.
The Maldives economical issues hit in a public & media.
After 23 years of dictators attitude in governing the governance by Qayyoom starts changing the Maldives constitution. The people who are not positive with Qayyoom & his government has raise lot of questions about his Government.
Specialy Economy,Religion, Judicery Systems , health care & democracy related issues. EU & Qayyooms opposition has created heavy preasure becouse of mentioned issues in Maldives.
The young business community & local investors has very narrow playing field to play in local economy since the Qayyoom systems has favoure there political ring leaders. The nepotism in the Qayyoom terms of office has narrow down the opportunities for new commers in business & politics.
The International community & financial institutes has advise Qayyoom Government several time to follow the finance guide lines. The government has failed to meet the financial consaltants advises............ to be continue with pictures & datas very soon.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Ex-President vs Present President in MALDIVES
CRITICAL JUDGEMENT
Both DRP & MDP members & supporters identify barriers, hazards, risks and other negative connotations. This is critical thinking, looking for problems and mismatches. This is usually natural for people to use, the issues with it are that people will tend to use it when it is not requested and when it is not appropriate, thus stopping the flow of others.
Preventing inappropriate use of the HITH THIRI KURUN is a common obstacle and vital step to effective group thinking. Another difficulty faced is that some people will naturally start to look for the solutions to raised problems - they start practicing emotional on HITH THIRI KURUN thinking before it is requested.
Commercial examples are:
Will be facing strong competition
What if we cannot get enough contribution together to support
We might not be able to make it cheaply enough for us & supporters to sustain it
There is a risk that new legislation will make this makes unattractive
Examples from the referenced historical trends are:
Time is wasted
Learning is compromised
Those speaking feel that HITH THIRI KURUN listeners do not respect them and do not wish to hear what they are saying
Flow of discussion is less clear
Critical thinking
Critical thinking is purposeful and reflective judgment about what to believe or what to do in response to observations,experience,verbalor written expressions, or arguments. Critical thinking might involve determining the meaning and significance of what is observed or expressed, or, concerning a given inference or argument, determining whether there is adequate justification to accept the conclusion as true. Hence, Fisher & Scriven define critical thinking as "Skilled, active, interpretation and evaluation of observations, communications, information, and argumentation."[1] Parker & Moore define it more narrowly as the careful, deliberate determination of whether one should accept, reject, or suspend judgment about a claim and the degree of confidence with which one accepts or rejects it.
Critical thinking gives due consideration to the evidence, the context of judgment, the relevant criteria for making the judgment well, the applicable methods or techniques for forming the judgment, and the applicable theoretical constructs for understanding the nature of the problem and the question at hand. Critical thinking employs not only logic but broadintellectual criteria such as clarity, credibility, accuracy, precision, relevance, depth, breadth, significance and fairness.
In contemporary usage "critical"has the connotation of expressing disapproval which is not always true of critical thinking. A critical evaluation of an argument, for example, might conclude that it is good.
Mohamed Amin Didi was the leader of the first political party in the Maldives, Rayyitunge Muthagaddim Party. He was well known for his efforts for the advancement of women and education in Maldives.
With the support of the people he abolished the 812 years old sultanate and became the first president of the Maldives on 1 January 1953. But he always supported a constitutional Monarchy.
After the death of Sultan Majeed Didi and his son Prince Hassan Fareed Didi, the members of the parliament chose Mr Amin Didi to be the next person who is capable to be as a sultan. But the same moment he stood up and shouted that "for the sake of the people of Maldives I would not accept the crown and the throne". And so a referendum was held and Maldives became a republic. But the republic was short lived and a revolution was brought by the people of Male`,while the president was in Ceylon for medical treatment.
Velaanaagey Ibaraahim Didi ,the vice president of Amin became the head of revolutionary government and ordered to arrest Mr Amin Didi as soon as he returned. Mr Amin Didi was not aware of these events which had taken place in his absence and he returned to the country ignorant of what have happened .
When he returned, he was arrested and taken to Dhoonidhoo island. He was told on the way that he is not any more the president. Four months later after his arrest, secret letters were exchanged between him and Ibrahim Hilmy Didi, to bring an end to this revolutionary government and to restore the monarchy. Ibrahim Hilmy as the king and Amin Didi as the prime minister. (Mr Ibraahim Hilmy lied to Amin Didi by saying that the people are still on his side).And ome might Amin didi came to male and tried to take control of badeyrige (Military HQ). People were so angry that he was beaten nearly to death. Then he was thrown into a small boat (bohkuraa near male).
Later the leaders of this small rebel group who wanted Mohanmed Amin as their leader were brought to court including Mohamed amin didi ,Ibrahim Hilmy Didi and Shamsuddin Hilmy Didi. These three people were sentenced to banish for life.
Mohamed Amin was banished to K.Gaafaru,Ibraahim Hilmy was Banished to K.gulhi and shamsuddin Hilmy was banished to K.hinmafushi.
As the former presidents health became deteriorating he was brought to Vihamanaa fushi Island (now kurumbaa village). On 19 January 1954,the first president of Maldives,a leader who tried his best to modernise his country died.A small funeral was held on vihamanaa fushi and he was buried in that island.His daughter Al nabeela Ameena attended to the funeral.
Ibrahim Nasir Rannabandeyri Kilegefan
Ibrahim Nasir Rannabandeyri Kilegefanwho served as Prime Minister of the Maldives under SultanMuhammad Fareed Didi from 1957 to 1968 and succeeded him to become the first President of the Second Republic from 1968 to 1978.
Nasir was widely criticised during Gayoom's regime. Especially during the first days of Gayoom after sworned in as president. There were massive rallies in almost all the big islands of Maldives with indecent cartoons of Nasir organized by Gayoom's government. There were cartoons of Nasir on the roads and on newspapers too. Horrible anti-Nasir songs were recorded and distributed by the government. These songs were even played on national radio. Offensive words were used for Nasir in these songs. These songs and cartoons were used in the rallies.
It is said until Nasir left Male' Gayoom praised Nasir and talked in favour of him (As in his first speech after sworned in as president). But after Nasir left Male' everything changed. After he left Male', mass demonstrations were held against him, labeling him traitor, calling death for him. He was tried in absentia and sentenced. However, the allegations against Nasir were never proven.Later Gayoom pardoned him.
Ibrahim Nasir exiled in Singapore on 7 December 1978 after resigning from his post. In 1981, Gayoom sentenced him to jail in absentia for alleged corruption charges and plotting a coup d'état; none of the allegations were proven and Nasir was pardoned.
On November 22, 2008, at the age of 82, Nasir died at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore.[3] Though the cause of death is unknown,[4] he had kidney problems, which plagued him in the time before his death.[1] Nasir's body was flown to the Maldives, where his body was displayed in Theemuge, the presidential palace in Malé, on November 23.[4] The day was declared a national holiday in the Maldives, and tens of thousands of Maldivians flocked to see Nasir's body, which was displayed at a ceremony in Republican Square before going to Theemuge.[5] At the presidential palace, current PresidentMohamed Nasheed and former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom were among those who paid their respects to Nasir.
The MALDIVES first president Ibrahim Nasir has died age of82, in Singapore on Saturday after a long illness. 1968 to 1978.
He escaped first to Libya and ultimately settled in Saudi Arabia where the Saudi royal family paid him a generous wage in return for his staying out of politics.
Amin held that Uganda needed him and never expressed remorse for the nature of his regime.In 1989, he attempted to return to Uganda, apparently to lead an armed group organised by Colonel Juma Oris. He reached Kinshasa, Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), before Zairian President Mobutu forced him to return to Saudi Arabia.
IDI Amin's death
On 20 July 2003, one of Amin's wives, Madina, reported that he was in a coma and near death at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She pleaded with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to allow him to return to die in Uganda. Museveni replied that Amin would have to "answer for his sins the moment he was brought back."Amin died in Saudi Arabia on 16 August 2003. He was buried in Ruwais Cemetery in Jeddah; according to the Associated Press's sources, few attended the funeral ceremony.
Qayyoom from DRP (Desaster Recovery Plan) to safe exit,
from safe exit to FIRE EXIT.
Ex-President Qayyoom & President Nasheed’s (ANNI)political DRAMA’s are most interesting exiting political ZIETGIEST in Maldivian modern history.
As a political analyst & writer I may be wrong I have been wrong in Qayyoom’s government many times & sent BEHIND BARS & banished. It is very interesting in local politics to make an analysis about present political situation but it is dangerous profession every where in the world.
Some people predict that ANNI’s Hith Thiri Kurun ( act as down to earth while celebrating victory) may have chance Qayyoom to be a STAE GOOD WILL EMBISSODOR for Environment to promote Maldives as a XERO CARBON country.
May be due to his political hidden agenda in DRP has confused the members.
Qayyoom has to answerable following stakeholders in DRP.
1-Qassan Maumoon why he failed competing with Thimarafushi Musthafa after making marketing GIMMICS in public media.
2-Abdulla Yamin, after PA alliance is that all about blasphemous of ANNI’s government or presidency for year 2013.
3-Ahmed Thasmeen Ali has faced numeric damages since he attempted to secure DRP & Qayyoom in presidential election. Who secure his political interest Qayyoom or Yameen.
Some Maldivians believe the best option for DRP future with young bloods has batter options if Qayyoom not involve in local politics.
The self exile model or asylum model for Qayyoom is not a bad option for time been since history of Maldives has bad practice with ex-presidents.
Most likely VISE PRESIDENT OF MALDIVES IN 2013
There is a unpredictable scenario in present political reality of Maldives. During 1980’s & 1990’s there is HUGE DEMAND for CLUB FOOTBALL the present situation is deferent public demand & spectators presence was not there.
The same might happens if AHMED THASMEEN migrate to MDP with his parliament group & that may solve his NUMARIC CHALLENGES too.
If this take place there will be no political demand with public excitement as spectators. The political spectators will say now there is no interest since MDP has majority in parliament everything will move according to MDP manifesto for 5 years.
If so AHMED THASMEEN will be MDP’s next VICE PRESIDENT OF MALDIVES in 2013 without YAMEEN& QASSAN & ANNI may complete his second terms of office.
Why Maldivians concern about Qayyoom still some people really dont know THE REAL QAYYOOM he will attend RIYAASEE COMMITEE we should forget how he operate during Nov 3rd 1988 & his visit to cemetry while EVAN NASEEM dead body SAHARA Pls. dont under estimate Qayyoom still ANNI & Qayyoom knews Maldivian political DRAMA both of them are best political manipulators in Modern Maldian history.
