In January 2015, the Maldivian government unveiled plans to inaugurate a training programme to create thousands of cashier positions across the country to be filled exclusively by local workers. The
Abdulla Yameen’s narrow win over Mohamed Nasheed in the 2013 Maldives election was greeted with scant celebration, both on the streets of Male and in the victor’s camp.
The Maldives’ Commission of National Inquiry report is a history written by the victors, but it forces all parties to look to the future, not the past.