As long as social housing can be RENTED OUT it will never ever be Fair!!! .. will never go to ppl who really needs …. #flatvagun @MoNPHImv @presidencymv@ACCMaldives
🇵🇸 🇺🇳 Overwhelming support for Palestine’s resolution on permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people over their natural resources:
🟩 151
🟥 7 (Colombia, Israel, Micronesia, Naoero, Palau, Paraguay, and United States)
‼️Dear Dhiveheen 🇲🇻
Muizzu thinks he can just push a toothless, feel-good law just to silence the criticism and we’ll all fall for it?
The residency bill is basically written the way Alabbar wants it.
It’s full of intentional loopholes and workarounds. There’s no real way to enforce any of the so called prohibitions. It’s just a feel-good law to score cheap political points!
We’re not stupid, Muizzu
You’re a cheap traitor that will sell our sovereignty just for dimes 🫵
UN Commission of Inquiry:
"Israel has committed war crimes & the crimes against humanity of extermination, persecution, torture, rape & other forms of sexual violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, intentionally targeting Palestinian civilians."
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1) I am against the Eagle Hills Rasmalé deal. Every policy action has costs and benefits. Without clear laws, guidelines, and a cost-benefit analysis, the benefit of the Rasmalé deal is unclear to me. The opportunity cost of Rasmalé deal is a functioning economy, and services built in Thilafushi, Gulhifalhu and Giraavarufalhu.
2) A residency program has the potential to boost the local economy. However, I am against residency programs without adequate governance mechanisms and controls, without which, Maldives risk undue foreign influence in our society and economy. Foreign residency programs should ONLY be considered once adequate governance systems are in place. I do not foresee such governance systems in Maldives in the near to medium future and therefore, we should reject residency programs for foreigners at this time.
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Maldives Pearl Residency Program by Henley & Partners
To this day, the public knows virtually nothing about the agreement signed between the Maldivian government and Henley & Partners (H&P). In fact, I suspect most Maldivians are not even aware of this engagement.
It is precisely this culture of secrecy that is eroding public trust in the government.
Adding to my concerns are H&P’s documented connections with Israel and its chairman’s openly expressed interest in attracting Israeli investors.
In an interview to israeli journalist Ronit Dmeke, published last December, Christian H. Kälin, the Chairman of Henley & Partners, said:
Henley's most recent contract, he says, is with the Maldives. ‘It's one of the top tourist destinations in the world with a strong brand. People go there for vacation, but now the government wants them to buy a second home and receive residency. We're helping promote the visa, which they call the Pearl Visa. We expect wealthy people from around the world to buy additional homes there, and we hope many Israelis will do so.”
This does not necessarily mean H&P will succeed in bringing Israeli residents to the Maldives.
But the fact that the chairman of a company contracted by our government to promote a residency programme is openly expressing such ambitions should be deeply concerning.
When discussions with H&P first began, many of us raised concerns about its connections with Israel and zionist affiliations. Yet the government appeared to pay little attention to those warnings.
And interestingly, just like the Rasmale project, this is another initiative that former President @MohamedNasheed appears to support.
Why are agreements with such far-reaching implications for our country being made without transparency, public scrutiny or meaningful consultation? The Gov cannot expect the public to trust decisions when it refuses to disclose what has been agreed upon, on what terms, and with what long-term implications for the country. Especially when it comes to deals to with zionists.