When an American animal welfare group offered to fund a cat sterilisation pilot in Vilimalé – vets, volunteers, equipment, the lot, at no cost to the state – it seemed like the kind of offer that answers itself. Seven months later, after a single meeting, one text message and an apology that arrived too late, the organisation gave up and redirected its funding to another country. The ministry says it never meant to reject the proposal, and points to the rules around one controlled drug. Our full report on what happened, and what it says about how the Maldives is handling its stray cat problem: https://maldivesindependent.com/society/they-offered-to-sterilise-mals-stray-cats-the-government-never-met-them-8ebb Facebook

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Maldivian women say the ideal family is two or three children. The rate is 1.7, and in Malé it has sat at 1.6 since 2006. Thirty-six per cent of women surveyed nationally last year said they want more children than they have. We spoke to three women in the Greater Malé Region about what sits in between. Majidha, 37, spent most of her daughter’s childhood working days and studying nights, collecting her close to 10pm. It took seven years to finish the degree. She wants a second child and thinks she could manage the cost. “If I was married I would have a child right now,” she said. Rishma, 41, has a permanent job and two children. All four of them – her, her husband and both kids – sleep in one room. She works ten hours a day and gets about three uninterrupted hours with her children before bed....

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Your card declined at Adobe. At Airbnb. At an Apple gift card. Maybe at a newspaper subscription. It isn’t a glitch and it isn’t unrelated to the resort story. Card payments, imports and state debt all come out of the same pool of foreign currency, a pool that comes through tourism and most of which never reaches a Maldivian bank. Of last year’s US$5.6 billion in tourism receipts, the central bank says US$3.2 billion entered the domestic banking system. Of that, 21 per cent was exchanged to rufiyaa. This week the government doubled the share resorts must convert, to 40 per cent, and made it an offence to advertise or promote a rate above MVR15.42. Resort workers are talking about striking. Police raided a company that operates a resort. Reserves keep falling. We’ve laid out where things stand and how they got here: why the card limits exist, what MVR15.42...

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The Maldives already has a law protecting tenants. It has barely been used. The Residential Tenancy Act came into force in November 2021. It caps security deposits at two months’ rent, requires deposits back within 15 days, blocks mid-lease rent hikes, and sets an MVR50,000 fine for landlords who evict for “own use” and then re-let. Enforcement was handed to island and city councils, which must decide complaints within seven days. Malé City Council was never consulted while the law was drafted. No budget, staff or administrative structure came with it. Saif Fathih was a councillor at the time, and says the concerns his council raised with the housing ministry went nowhere. The MDP passed that law. After 4 April it holds 46 of 52 city council seats. Fathih argues it no longer has anywhere to put the blame. https://maldivesindependent.com/by-saif-fathih/the-mdp-wrote-the-tenancy-act-it-now-runs-the-councils-meant-to-enforce-it-8283 Column By Saif Fathih Saif Fathih is a columnist at...