Int Trade Specialist, Ex-Trade Diplomat, BA Hon Econ @KeeleUniversity UK 1995, MBA 2002, Masters@GVAGrad Geneva 2011 #economy #trade #society #public_interest
Muscat, Oman
Joined January 2009
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Much feared new US Whitehouse staff Stephan Miller.. Ultra nationalist w sharp rhetoric, hawkish on alien deportations.
Note his definition of ‘normal’ and ‘deformed’ humans.
He has a point on appearance.. what’s displayed outside is a reflection of an inside of a person!
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STO sank roughly MVR 115 million into an unfinished City Hotel in Hulhumalé Phase 1. Construction started around 2011–2012 after earlier Carlson/Radisson plans, then stalled for over a decade with zero revenue while shareholders repeatedly raised the issue at AGMs. By 2025 the structure was valued at USD 20 million (about MVR 308 million) in a settlement with HDC. STO transferred the Phase 1 site to HDC and received a Hulhumalé Phase 2 land plot (reports indicate around 40,000 sq ft) in return; the financial effects were to appear in STO’s 2025 statements.
HDC then agreed with World of Business Pvt Ltd to complete and operate the property as the 162-room Manhattan Grand Hotel (opened 7 November 2026), alongside floors for a media village, medical college, heritage facilities and youth centre. World of Business was registered in February 2025. Local shareholders and directors include Ibrahim Naeem (managing director) and related parties; UAE-based Deep Seafood FZCO later took a 50% stake. May/August 2025 reports stated HDC “will receive” or “is set to receive” USD 11 million as property/land value plus annual rent (roughly USD 935,000 or MVR 14.4 million). No public confirmation shows the USD 11 million was paid in cash rather than as deferred rent, equity or another arrangement. The company was also to cover certain utilities and maintenance for the government facilities as CSR.
This sequence differs from earlier delayed construction or cost overruns. It combines three elements that reduce visibility:
First, an inter-SOE land swap converts sunk construction cost into a Phase 2 land allocation whose market value and development potential are not fully disclosed alongside the USD 20 million headline. The unfinished Phase 1 building then passes to a private operator at a lower stated USD 11 million figure. Net public cash or asset inflow from the private party is therefore not independently verifiable from open sources.
Second, the operator is a company formed months before the agreements, with no prior track record on a project of this scale and no published competitive tender, open EOI evaluation or comparative bids. Earlier STO attempts to sell or complete the hotel failed; the award went to an entity created for the purpose. Without tender documents, bid evaluations or independent valuation reports, the pricing (USD 11 million against a USD 20 million inter-SOE valuation, plus rent) cannot be assessed against market alternatives.
Third, fifteen years of zero revenue from the original asset are not offset by clear, audited public reporting of cash or equivalent received by HDC. Annual rent and future tax estimates (one report cites roughly USD 2.5 million in annual tax) are projected, but the core capital payment remains unconfirmed. Government facilities occupy part of the building, with the private party covering certain costs, which blurs the boundary between commercial recovery and public subsidy.
The result is an asset chain linking public construction capital, Phase 2 public land and a newly formed private vehicle through incomplete disclosure. Older SOE problems often involved cost overruns or failed tenders that could still be audited against existing contracts. Here the combination of a land-for-asset settlement, a non-competitive award to a fresh company and the absence of verified capital inflow creates a structure where the public’s residual claim is harder to quantify and contest. Praising physical completion without demanding the missing payment records, tender papers and full valuation chain treats opacity as an acceptable feature of “getting the project done.” That normalises a higher-threshold form of asset disposal in which land and long-idle public capital move with limited independent scrutiny.
Chilling words from the new Whitehouse Chief of Staff, Stephen Millar.
This level of arrogance and racism is surely not what US stands for
Manhattan Grand Hotel of HM
-investor: Deep Sea Food company UAE (no financial statements)
-purported investment value 19M
-it’s UK parent company situation. 1 £👇
(ChatGTP)
Curious Q: why didn’t @mifcomv diversify into tourism as a Seafood company like this UAE entity?
#curious
Artificial is artificial.. it’s not human intelligence.
No different to a human with excessive surgery, Botox or make up..
It’s dishonest and screams of fake even if cosmetic appears aesthetic!
Promoting artificial is clearly against espoused Islamic values of @MMuizzu we hear
Unspoken secret in MV is multi cultural identity from interracial marriages.
Small population, big foreign exposure and a large majority of wo/men r married to multi cultural/religions/non religious peoples esp Europeans, even Chinese etc. Fact:most women will prefer a foreigner
Strongly believe that only v highly qualified people of years extensive scholarship (from multiple countries) must be allowed by Gov to speak on islam in MV. Young guys w a few years mostly from Medina come w a specific mindset often not fully in context full spectrum of fiqh
Mr @Mohamedshaheem1 /Sheiks r not explaining Islam in historical context and evolution of fiqh. Instead mostly spreading Ibn Tamiyyah views. What about
- Ibn Rushd: The philosophy of reason
-Al-Ghazali: The limits of reason
-Ibn Taymiyyah is of course for primacy of revelation
Mr @Mohamedshaheem1 /Sheiks r not explaining Islam in historical context and evolution of fiqh. Instead mostly spreading Ibn Tamiyyah views. What about
- Ibn Rushd: The philosophy of reason
-Al-Ghazali: The limits of reason
-Ibn Taymiyyah is of course for primacy of revelation
ރާއްޖޭގެ އިސްލާމީ ޝަހުސިއްޔަތު ކިލަނބުކޮށްލާ ނަމަ، ފިޔަވަޅު އަޅަންޖެހޭނެ: މިނިސްޓަރު
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Hear hear
Giving an IPad to kids is bad.
Old fashioned books are superior
@MoEdumv
Super quote on PREDATORY CAPITALISM which almost no politician talk anywhere.
W just Undergraduate level in economics, the evils of capitalism can’t be understood. Monopoly power is far predominant than market mechanism.. which is pure nonsense
Statement so so late from @SFdevelopmentMV shows that Ministry is utterly incompetent in safeguarding Dhivehi kids.
Per MV stats, Children’s Ministry must b at forefront of crime prevention. Whoever the dumb idiot the Min is, s/he deserves wrath and must be sacked
@MMuizzu
ޝާހިދަށް ތުހުމަތު ކުރެވޭ މައްސަލަ: ކުއްޖާގެ މައުލޫމާތު އާންމު ނުކުރަން އެދިއްޖެ
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Senator elect @AbdulElSayed is a next level politician.. fully in touch with both worldly affairs and spirituality.
He espouses Islamic authenticity without appeasing West or Arabs.
Sharp contrast w some MV politicians, TRYING HARD to appease either West or to a rich Arab state
Maldives still doesn’t understand why Arabs don’t wear clothes like South Asians.
This is why 👇
A society that can’t protect a child has lost its legitimacy.
Confirmed or not, it’s incumbent on legal authorities and society in general, to protect the young girl from undue influence and take her to protective custody till a certified psychologist gives approval
@MMuizzu
‼️🚨Breaking News (100% confirmed)
Zifleen has scared and pressured the child to take back the statement she gave to her teachers and psychologists saying if she did not withdraw it, she and mommy (Zifleena) would be thrown out of the luxury flat Shahid bought for them and left on the streets with no money. She also warned the girl that she would be shamed in public and that no decent boy would ever marry her. The child is so helpless and so fragile that she has now denied everything in a police statement taken yesterday. But there is no reason a child would break down in tears and give pages of detail about her stepfather unless it was true. A girl her age could not have made all of it up.
Lawyer Hisaan, the wife of Shahid’s running mate Nazil, is handling the case and working day and night. She hasn't slept in 48 hours. She is pulling every string she can, using her influence over the judges she appointed when she was president of JSC in MDP gov. Shahid’s closest aide, Chaandhanee Shuja (he himself has molested minors), has used his strong connections in the police to make them move faster than ever before. They took the statement and changed the direction of the investigation so that Shahid could be released from custody. Shuja’s closest friend is lawyer Gahdhu Naseer, a corrupt fixer of court cases who served as Undersecretary for Legal Affairs under Ibu gov. Naseer has already made arrangements to get Shahid released in his remand appeal. He is also close to Alippee, who personally influenced the appointment of corrupt and unqualified judges such as Shaneez and Maaniu to High Court.
Investigators at Police Family and Child Protection Department, Prosecutor General’s Office, and judges who hear child sexual abuse cases all know that child victims change their statements more than 75% of the time. This is a well known, established and documented fact. Ask people working in Gender Ministry. Victims, even adult women, do this cause their families put enormous pressure on them during the investigation or the trial. And here we're talking about a minor. Also, no one should doubt how much pressure a man as powerful and wealthy as Shahid, and the people around him, can apply. No honest and sensible judge should accept this change of story without first finding out why the child gave such a long and detailed account to her friends, teachers and psychologists in the first place. The Protection of Children’s Rights from Sexual Offenders Act (Act No. 12/2009) deals with exactly this. Clause 47 explains how evidence should be weighed and its main point is that it matters when a child tells someone soon after the abuse happens. Those early statements must count the most, not the ones given after the child has been frightened and forced to change her story.
Muizzu is also doing everything he can to save Shahid. The investigation officer has also been changed I've been informed. But his hands are mostly tied and he cannot interfere in the investigation at this stage I'm told, but he has already told Commissioner of Police to go easy on Shahid, as much as he can. Police officers who were at Shahid’s home during his arrest said Shahid called Muizzu, asked for help and said Nasheed was behind the case. Muizzu then told the Commissioner to let Shahid make all the calls he needed to his aides and plan his defence with his lawyers. This went on for more than two hours before he was taken in. No suspect in the history of Police has ever been treated like this, let alone someone accused of sexually abusing a child.
The country must keep a close eye on this case. We must make sure this girl gets justice and that Shahid does not get away with it. He must be made an example of, so that other predators get a clear message, however powerful you are, you will not escape justice for destroying a girl’s future by sexually abusing her. In truth, it is not just destroying her future but killing it. Having to live with this for the rest of her life is the worst thing imaginable for a child.
Hope the v few level headed commentators on MV Twittersphere educates Maldives public against the many “Ramaswamy’ ies in MV politics esp at @mvpeoplesmajlis
I wd say 95% r like him.. bec it’s all marketing and no values.. v typical south Asian and we in its midst.
Most important lesson Maldivian citizens sd take to b wary of antics of infantile MV ‘democracy show’ is learn what happened to Vivek Ramaswamy.
He played like a typical MV politician (money, fake rhetoric) but dumped as inauthentic by electorate.. despite his wealth, connections
Agree 👇
@MMuizzu hv shown that he can use the naked ambition drive of MV politics expertly.
@prz_ymn was blindsided by loud guys (w a SIMPLE AGENDA to make money), RM seems to keep himself out of noise - the most toxic aspect of loud MV ‘democracy’
America 2.0 ?
Or minus 1.0
🇺🇸 Harmeet Dhillon, who just RESIGNED from Trump's DOJ, gave us one of the funniest Nick Fuentes meltdowns of all time.
She starts delivering a Sikh prayer at the 2024 RNC, and Nick looks like he's witnessing the collapse of Western civilization in REAL TIME.
“are you JOKING?!”
His reaction is absolutely priceless.
Writer: Oliver