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OPINION | Lifeguards at Maldivian resorts must be certified. Security guards face no equivalent requirement, writes Mohamed Hameed, who served as commissioner of police from 2019 to 2023. In this op-ed, he argues that remoteness is no protection, that the first hour of any emergency belongs to whoever is on the island, and that the Maldives needs a single authority to license and vet private security. He also warns that a regulator that can’t be staffed properly would be worse than no regulator at all. Read the full piece: https://maldivesindependent.com/opinion/hope-is-not-a-strategy-fixing-resort-security-in-the-maldives-f6c4 All comment pieces are the sole view of the author and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of the Maldives Independent. If you would like to write an opinion piece, please send proposals to [email protected]. Facebook

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What did Cannanore claim it was owed, and who was Mohamed Thakurufaan? More than 250 years after Malé fell in 1573, a letter arrived from the Ali Raja of Cannanore. Cannanore, it said, had installed Mohamed Thakurufaan as sultan and appointed his minister. And the kingdom’s revenue was to be split three ways: one share for Mecca and Medina, one for Cannanore and one for the Maldivians themselves. Sultan Mohamed Mueenudeen’s court replied with a lesson in Islamic law, and a quiet dig at the men who had made the deal. In the final part of his series, Nazim Sattar sets that letter beside two other sources. One is the French traveller Pyrard’s account of how the brothers “repaid with treachery” the Malabars who helped them take Malé. The other is a century-old pilot’s handbook from Addu that names the ports of Ceylon and the Coromandel in Tamil. Then he...

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