“MDPs approach to win most of the seats in the upcoming parliamentary election is an indicator of its disguised aspiration to switch the administrative mechanism of the country” Mr. Ahmed Ibrahim Didi, Dhivehi Gaumee Party’s contestant for Hulhudhoo Meedhoo constituency stated, while addressing to the audience in their first introductory meeting to Addu people last night. Even though the meeting was called for introducing its contestants for various constituencies in Addu, most of the speakers utilized the opportunity to criticize the ruling party.

“If we remain silent before the very dynamic political arena of this country, who would bear the responsibility of desired and actual change we dreamt of, after ousting thirty years of brutal dictatorship” questioned Dr. Mohamed Jameel Ahmed, who is a council member of DGP and a cabinet minister of the MDP coalition government. He stated that every individual has got the right to equally enjoy the benefits of introducing true democracy in this country and no individual or organization could alter this by any mean(s). Further he stated “No individual or organization should try to alter the legislation of the country and none should be allowed to do so”. According to him public grievances are rising against the current administration today, for most of decisions are taken without obtaining adequate information from the designated bodies.

DGP introduced five of its members for five different constituencies in Addu. They include Dr. Ahmed Abdulla for ‘Beyru Magu’ district, Hithadhoo, Dr. Ali Shareef for Koruvalu district, Hithadhoo, Mr. Ahmed Didi for Hulhumoo Meedhoo, Mr. Hassan Adil for Maradhoo and Maradhoo Feydhoo and Mr.Imad Solih for Feydhoo. All the candidates, except Dr. Ali Shareef, spoke before the audience in their first introductory meeting with Addu people. Dr. Ali Shareef is reportedly on a journey to Australia. While addressing to the audience Mr. Ahmed Didi, editor of famous political magazine Sandhaan, repeatedly called on President Mr. Mohamed Nasheed to “return to his promises”.

Dr. Hassan Saeed, former attorney general and one of the council members of DGP has stated that his party believes in principle and that contestants were selected based on their principle and procedure. He also told that his party provides necessary information on religious, political, judicial, and economic matters to its contestants. According to him “unless educated personals take the responsibility of administration of this country, it is almost impossible for this country to cope with the pressure of modern world”.

Eventhough the turnup for DGP's first official meeting was considerably low, hundreds of DGP members and supporters have visited the meeting which was held at Muhibbudheen School in S.Hithadhoo.

Children’s Evening conducted by www.meedhoolive.com and www.hulhudhootoday.com at Seenu Atoll School as part of national day celebrations in Hulhumeedhoo ended yesterday. Hundreds of children from Meedhoo and Hulhudhoo participated in the event, where winners of Island Casual’s Annual Promotion 2008 were announced.

“This is the first event of this magnitude involving leadership of Hulhumeedhoo youth, I am very pleased to see them working together for the betterment of our islands”, said a woman. Children were treated without any discrimination, rich or poor, Hulhudhoo or Meedhoo and every participant was addressed as a member of the evening. Though turn up from Meedhoo side was high towards start up, children from Hulhudhoo side started to flock as the evening proceeded.

‘Every child gets a prize’ was the motto of the evening. The organizers of the event emphasized heavily on children participation in all the games. Games included relay race, sprints, hit the rat, basket, musical chair, sack race, singing and many more. Facial painting was conducted separately in a different stall. All the children participated in almost all the games and won several prizes with varying prices.

“This is just the beginning of enhancing our socio partnership within the community and we plan to strengthen this further and involve every corner of the society’, stated Hulhudhoo Today’s editor, Ahmed Azleem. He also quoted saying children evening as ‘essential’ for the children of both the islands. According to him, poor infrastructure at parks and unavailability of required equipments in those parks seldom amuse the children who love to visit those places.

Mr. Fathimath Nisreen, Coazy nest, S.Hulhudhoo came first of

National Day celebration are still underway in Hulhumeedhoo. Today evening a netball match between young stars and the rest is scheduled to be played at Dimish Kara. These are signs of progress Hulhumeedhoo people have achieved interms of social responisibility and partnership.

Following the recent upheaval over party politics in Hulhumeedhoo, people have started to come back to their normal lives. They have started to gather in national events like today’s, signifying their commitment for freedom and sovereignty. Predominantly women involvement in the national day parades today symbolized the importance and attention they pay on this sort of activities. However, few people are disgraced with the scale and unity of the activity in which hundreds of students took part from three schools.

“This is really symbolic in terms of preserving freedom, sovereignty and national integrity” a participant shared his feeling. He further stated that he was delighted to see such a huge turn up for the National Day Celebration which is something merely exercised recently.

Maldives national day is an important day, as it is observed to celebrate the victory of Muhammad Thakurufaanu over the Portuguese in the year 1573. According to the Islamic calendar, the National Day of Maldives falls on the 1st of Rabee ul Awwal, the third month. Read to know about the story of freedom of Maldives from the colonial rule of Portuguese. In the year 1558, Portuguese attacked Maldives and killed the then Sultan of this country and established their own rule. It was later in 1573; Muhammad Thakurufaanu arrived here along with his companions and succeeded in ending the fifteen-year colonial rule.

National Day has brought all of us together and feelings of preserving “freedom and sovereignty” are utmost. However one would wonder why there are huge differences in celebrating these incidents and how well the community responds to these sorts of national events. “I wonder why men keep themselves secluded from these kinds of national events” a woman told. She complained that men think more about politics and forget how to preserve what they had achieved.

Even though happiness overwhelmed many faces today, few, in reality, were excited over the preceding of today’s event. Egoism and feeling of promoting our own agenda was imminent from the root mach today. “Every school had tried to mark the event individually” stated a man. According to him ‘unity’ is mere a word that is found in books and is commonly used as a tool for attracting people today. He further told “Had three schools joined together to celebrate the event collectively, then the magnitude of the event would have been much better”.

Indeed, National Day is a very important day for any Maldivian to understand as our nation is always vulnerable to foreign invaders. We must educate all the children of the heroic event that took place in 1573 which gave us independence from 15 years of colonialism by Portuguese, and make them ready for next generation of Mohamed Thakurufaan. View Photos

A team consisting of five to six members has arrived at Herathera today for surveying the construction of the channel that separates Herathera (Handhufushi) from Hulhudhoo. The director of MTDC, owner of Cyrix Computer Training Center, Mr Ahmed Shareef is accompanying the team, who are flying Herathera on YTM tickets. Mr. Saleem, YTM special lawyer is also in the convoy to observe and assist the team. The project is contracted to Heavy Load, a company owned by MP Reeko Moosa Manik for a sum of Mrf22,509,211.38 (USD 1,751,689.60) Refer

Since last month the construction of the channel is on halt as Yacht Tours accuse MTDC for failure finish the channel within the stipulated time frame. As per the contract, by November 2008 MTDC should have completed the construction of channel.

According to reliable sources, the survey team will continue their work until tomorrow. They will study the reasons for failure to complete the channel in time, assess the progress made on the ground and will present their findings to the court that is due to make a ruling on the disputed construction of the channel.

Dredging of the channel is a mandatory condition as per the contract. YTM claims that they are losing market unpredictably and the company is facing huge financial drawbacks due to this failure from MTDC. However MTDC denounced the accusation and quoted “We have dredged the channel before the end of November 2008”. YTM responds that making a thirty feet wide channel is not enough and that it should be 27m wide as per the contract.

The environmental cost on both Hulhudhoo and Herathera is on rise. Tidal waves from open sea are increasing the pressure within the channel forming strong current which keeps washing away the land on the both ends. People are raising their concern over this at local level, however if

The sooner do the team presents their report to court, the quicker the resumption of construction of the channel.

“Drinking rain water has been practiced in Hulhumeedhoo since our memories” told a Hulhudhoo local who is concerned over deteriorating drinking water situation in the island. Many people built water storage tanks using cement during early 1990s, latter people adopted using ‘black rubber tanks’ issued by the government. Today, every household demands for these water storage facilities, but few have received them from the government over the past ten years.

In Hulhudhoo many people have registered their household names with Hulhudhoo Office as immediate needy for these facilities. “We have registered our household name no sooner did the request for registration was issued by the government” said a Hulhudhoo woman. So far selected people from the island have benefited from this program. However, former minister of environment Mr. Ahmed Abdulla had revealed in February 2008 that Mrf13 million was spent in 2007 on providing water tanks to atolls and that Mrf19 million would be spent during 2008. He had also mentioned that foreign donors were demoralized and some even stopped funding as few islands were using the tanks that were sent in the firs phase. “Maradhoo has received 381 tanks last year and thousands of tanks are being unloaded to Hithadhoo now, what about us” complained a Hulhudhooan. Distribution of present water storage facilities in the country is carried out as part of tsunami recovery efforts and providing safe drinking water to the people by Ministry of Environment and foreign donors.

In this season most of the households are suffering water shortages, making them use public water storage tanks to meet the day to day needs. There tons of water storage capacity in Hulhudhoo alone. These massive tanks are place in Hulhudhoo Office, Corner Park, and Mosques. Every night fishermen take hundreds of liters of water from these massive public water storages, leading to faster diminish of water supply. “Look, these storages are setup for the people who has no fresh and safe water storage facilities in their home, but the local fishing vessels are taking hundreds of liters of water from these places every night”, complained a frustrated local.  

If the current water drought persists for another twenty days in Hulhumeedhoo, analysts say "there would be a catastrophe in the island". There are almost four months before the usual rainy season to come, until then we must find out appropriate measures to utilize the public water storage facilities.

Red house emerged the winners of the Hulhudhoo School Inter-House Athletics Meet.

Red house won the tournament competed by the four houses of Hulhudhoo School by earning the highest total number of points from all three age categories. They won the meet by achieving highest points, 140.

The Athletics Meet was held over two days and began last Friday. The runner up team was Red House.

Officials at the Meet said that over 200 students competed in the Athletics Meet. Mr. Ahmed Anaan Waheed won the trophy for the best all rounder in man’s category with 15 point where as Ms. Muniath Moosa Didi won the trophy for best all rounder in woman’s category with 11 points.

According to many parents the Meet went very smooth. They drew attention on organizing committee’s decision as ‘unfair’ to disqualify Yellow house in 4 X 100m relay final, boys under 13 years old. However, the in-charge of the organizing committee justified their cause to disqualify yellow house members, as they failed to come back from collision among its athletes.

This grudge has become more personal for the yellow house members. They would never accept that they lost   the tournament and refused to take the trophy they earned.
 

Ilyas Labeeb has publically stated that he would facilitate means and ways to help ‘Dimish Kara’ (DK) achieve its goals set for development. He said this in the grand opening ceremony of Ilyas Labeeb’s campaign Harage at “DK Usfasgado” last night. “I will facilitate and assist you develop your park which has become quite significant for the people of DK momentarily” Ilyas said. DK Park is being developed east to the Beach House by its people. Further he acknowledged the requirement of DK people to make a new road that would connect them to the mainland and highlighted his role in current road making process. On the other hand Ms. Aminath Nafiza accepted two volley ball gifted to them by Ilyas.

Even though the reception was meant for DK, few people from other parts of the island and Meedhoo participated in the event. “As the three campaign sites have now been officially launched in Hulhudhoo, Ilyas Labeeb’s campaign sites in Meedhoo will be formally instigated somewhere in March 2009”, Mr. Mamshooq stated, a senior Ilyas Labeeb’s campaign team member. He thanked the people on behalf of campaign team for attending the reception and quoted that it was not necessary for them to be a supporter of Ilyas to attend these sorts of gathering but listening to his words mattered much more.

Mr. Ahmed Zareer, Ilyas Labeeb’s campaign manager, drew attention on one major advantage of Ilyas Labeeb, his ‘age’. His age has become the daily “manthara” for the rest of the candidates to promote their candidacy. “Any man or woman who turns eighteen is eligible for close engagement in politics everywhere in the world today, unless he or she fails to meet the required conditions” said Ahmed Zareer. He also said that anyone who turns sixty five must retire and let the younger generation take the responsibility of taking the nation to attain new heights.

As campaign for Ilyas Labeeb continues, more and more gatherings are planned ahead systematically. For now, Ilyas Labeeb is the favourite to win the seat of Hulhumeedhoo given the unpredictable response he and hsi campaign team are recieving both at home and in Male'. View Photos.

Hulhudhoo School athletics meet began with a colorful opening ceremony at Hulhudhoo football ground yesterday. The competition is held among the four houses of the school, namely Red, Green, Yellow and Blue. The Athletics Meet will be held for two days, and events for the Friday were mostly sprints of various lengths for various age categories.

Officials at the Meet said that over 200 students are taking part in the competition and that age categories are Under 13, Under 11, and Under 9. As the Meet is held every other year, any student studying at Hulhudhoo School gets the opportunity to take part in the event three times before they graduate from the school. “In order to ensure that the most number of students participate in the event it’s necessary for the school to make it an annual event” said a teacher.

As the Hulhudhoo School is a primary school, some of the events are excluded from the Meet, considering age and capacity of the students. Javelins, Shot-Put and water sports activities are among them otherwise practiced normally at secondary levels.

In Hulhudhoo any things take its culmination. Parents pay great attention on co-curricular activities like Athletics Meet. They would encourage their respective Houses excessively and would keep the noise at the ground constantly. “We sometimes feel difficult in preceding these sorts of events due to parents influence and interruption” said a member of organizing committee. According to him, that shows the scale of parents’ attention on their children’s growth though. And he appreciated their endeavor in making such events success always.

As the Meet is held for two days the event would be complete by Saturday. More drama and hapennings are expected in the final day of the event, which is largely seen by students, teachers and respective parents as a victory whatsoever. View Photos

The second American Navy ship arrived Addu yesterday in less than three months. In the first week of December 2008, much bigger American navy ship turned up in Addu and conducted training with Maldivian military personals in Gan. “The navy was carrying a fresh and young fleet of American soldiers to Afghanistan”, said man who did not want to be identified. During their stay in Addu, they granted many high-tech machineries and amours to Maldives National Defense Force.

The ship that arrived yesterday is marooned few kilometers east of Gan. There was a sightseeing trip around Addu and Fuvahmulah yesterday by US soldiers on a helicopter. “What was happening around, we saw a helicopter flying across Hulhumeedhoo yesterday evening around 17:40”, an astonished woman inquired. Feelings are mixed among the civilian population in Addu. Some see presence of US Navy ship in Addu as a pride and opportunity, while others are skeptical about their frequent visits to this region.

“What is American Navy doing here in Addu, you guys get bucks like $10s and it is a good business for local people right?” mocked a RAF personal spending his holiday at Ocean Reef in Gan. Further he said everything has changed since we left Addu and quote as saying Hithadhoo has totally changed. Number of RAF personals, who were based in Gan during the World War II, visit Ocean Reef to refresh six decades of their memories.

Indeed, both countries being powers in world stage in terms of arms and economic growth, they exploited the poor and small countries like Maldives. “We are not happy with RAF personal’s concern over American navy presence in Addu either, just dive and see how much iron and waste had been dumped into our coastal areas, especially south of Gan” stated a Hithadhooan.

However, the pains of RAF presense in Addu during WW II exist even today although much appreciation went their way as they left. For a country like Maldives, sovereignty and protecting national pride is upmost and anything that may interrupt these may harm the feelings of people especially who bore the burdens of RAF presence six decades ago.

For decades, “Dimish Kara” (DK) was isolated from the Hulhudhoo mainland with just one gateway, the ‘zubaidha magu’. Twenty-five percent of Hulhudhoo population lives in this area. During the 1980s until early 1990s, Dimish kara was the heart of Hulhudhoo for growth and education. After almost a decade, today we are seeing the reiteration of the same activity in the DK locality.

“Life has started to boom in this locality, with increased inter-social relationships” said Fathimath Didi. Everyday people gather up in DK football ground and beach, play games of different sorts while others keep busy preparing tea or refreshments for the whole participants. “DK is more like a carnival, as sun breaks the noon people of the locality flocks in to football ground or the beach,” Mohamed sultan described. Further he said, today we receive hundreds of people from other localities to take part in our games and just to enjoy the evening with us.

Now DK people are moving on to another stage of development. They are making a park on their own, which is largely viewed by the society as a sign of progress. From old aged to youth, everybody’s involvement resembles mere difference in their effort to develop their locality. “Opening up of Ilyas Labeeb’s campaign office here in our area restored our souls; most of us believed that we are expelled from the Hulhudhoo society” a DK youth stated.

“We appreciate Dr. Didi for bridging the gap between us and mainland by opening up a new road, and we are longing to see the building of another essential road which leading to shops, Daizy Store and Seven Three,” a woman said. Indeed, along with the changes to the environment, the expectation and the attitude of the people towards government are transforming. However, for many, the new life that has emerged in the DK locality is synonymous with the change of administration.

“My father retired from the government job, yet he didn’t receive a single coin as pension,” said a woman who is frustrated with the current administration. “None of our family members will vote for a MDP candidate, actually we were behind him till yesterday”, she added. According to them, their family is rejected from the society for being hard-line DRP supporters during the presidential election last September, although a recent independent survey conducted by www.hulhudhootoday.com found out that the said family was a hardcore supporter of “MDP candidate” for Hulhumeedhoo.

Roumers about ignoring the needy is out bursting the four corners of Hulhumeedhoo. “We know who received pension money and why. Those who have close ties with Anni and MDP are given priority,” said the woman. Another man complained, “My father is 115 years old according to national identity card, bedridden at Hulhumeedhoo Health Center but has not received old aged pension money”.

Hulhudhoo Today has learned several causes for failure to reach pension money to every deserved individual. Failure to complete application forms by the office, confusion over age, unavailability of identity cards and other relevant documents were among those noted. “My grandmother received rufiyaa 2000 as pension whereas my grandfather did not” said a Hulhudhooan living in Male’. Further, he inquired the crisis with Hulhudhoo Office and came to know that the problem was due to failure to fill up the forms properly.

“We will pay for two months this time for those who did not receive their first payment”, National Social Protection Agency stated. On the other had the government’s stand in this regard is providing pension money to every individual above 65 years, which government will certainly execute, they say. Unless the preceding misconception is resolved, the hatred against government and its interests will continue to rise.

Ilyas Labeeb met with some of his beloved Meedhoo supporters living in Male’. The gathering, organized by Mr. Ali Shaheem, was held at Salsa Café on fifth of this month. The main objective of the get-together party was to seek support for Ilyas Labeeb’s candidacy for the upcoming parliamentary election. Though Ilyas Labeeb is born to Hulhudhoo parents, he, apart from his profession, has very strong and unbreakable bondages with the people of Meedhoo irrespective of age and family class.

Prominent individuals attended the meeting from Meedhoo. Mr. Fayaz, Deputy Minister of Health, spoke to his natives and quote “we need a candidate who is coming from ruling party and that is Ilyas”. Further, he said that they would work together in the MDP government to bring more developments and prosperity to Hulhudhoo and Meedhoo. Mr. Ali Shaheem, Mr. Ahmed Zareer and Dr. Ibrahim Didi also justified their position to stand by with Ilyas Labeeb.

On the other hand, there was a family gathering at Kalaafaanu School on 30^th of January. Hundreds of Ilyas Labeeb’s family members attended the party where everybody was delighted with the way Ilyas is being presented to the people of Hulhumeedhoo. Several members of his family utilized the opportunity to speak in support of his candidacy, revitalizing the family corporation.

Being at the center of attention, Mr. Ilyas Labeeb gave a message to members of his family, “Allow me to represent you in the parliament and watch how I make this government heal the pains of thirty years of suffering you have been through”. He urged everyone to hold on his rope and carry the same message to the people of Hulhumeedhoo. View Photos

Prizes were awarded to the winners of Quran recitation competition at Seenu Atoll School. The competition, which was held during the month of Ramazan, was organized by Foundation for Meedhoo Development (FMD) to commemorate the sad demise of Mr. Mohamed Jamal, Riyaz, S.Meedhoo. Students from Shamsuddheen School, Hulhudhoo School and Seenu Atoll School participated in this competition. Students as young as six years to sixteen years took part in this tournament.

Religious reciters known as ‘qaris’ from Hulhumeedhoo judged the competition. They include Abdul Kareem, Ali Naseer, Shareef and Abdulla Najeeb.

“Quran propagates the message of humanity, prosperity and peace,” Mr. Ahmed Shathir, the chairman of FMD stated while addressing to the audience. He also highlighted the importance of conducting that kind of competions consistently for the well-being of the society and its harmony.

The participants hoped that with more such competitions, the faith and love among people of all ages would revive. Muslims believe the Qur'an to be the book of divine guidance and direction for mankind, and consider the original Arabic text to be the final revelation of God.

Islam holds that the Qur'an was revealed to Muhammad by the angel Jibril (Gabriel) over a period of 23 years. The Qur'an purports to be the main miracle of Muhammad, thus its inimitability validates his status as a prophet.

Muslims regard the Qur'an as the culmination of a series of divine messages that started with those revealed to Adam, regarded in Islam as the first prophet, and continued with the Suhuf.

Unrest in Herathera is overwhelmingly on rise these days. According to various sources close to Herathera management, a “waiter” was suspended unconditionally yesterday for trying to obtain alcohol from “Dhora” bar. In other incidents, one of the directors of Yacht Tours got a heavy bang while trying to control a dispute that erupted in the middle of the night between HODs yesterday.

“The waiter ordered barmen to provide alcohol of his choice” explained an eyewitness. When the barmen refused he march inside the bar, smashed on the face of Indian barmen and got away with bottles of alcohol. Tourists present inside the bar reported the matter to the management immediately as that fearful and cowardice act took place before their very eyes. Management was left with no choice other than sending him home for a week or so. “He, after successfully disrupting the peaceful protest last Friday, thinks as if he is an executive of the hotel and had been sleeping in an executive room with Zahid” mocked a Herathera staff. He said Ibrahim Rasheed (GM, Herathera) and Ibrahim Zahid (Director, YTM) were uncomfortable taking such a harsh action against their own “puppet” though, which kept helping them polish the nasty things they do in the hotel one after the other.

Mr. Zahid got a heavy hit from a drunk last night. “Actually Zahid intervened to control a dispute that erupted between Heads of Departments, where the Head of Diving School, dissatisfied with an issue, targeted to smack down GM, Ibrahim Rasheed” told a staff who doesn’t want to be identified. As per him, Mr. Zahid immediately confirmed a ticket to fly back to Male’. However, he is still in Herathera, unaware of what is happening.

In the late 1980s, Hulhudhoo was renowned throughout the nation as Brazil of Maldives. During then as many as three teams from Hulhudhoo played in the national stadium and team Cononta still hold the record in the second and third division FAM. Then we saw a drastic downward trend in soccer during 1990s making loopholes in the foundation laid by the heroes of Cononta, Verona and Lynon. However as Hulhudhoo Sports Club started a festival in the name of HSC Festival in 2001, young soccer talents began to emerge. Today we are very proud to see our teens seeking talent from the soccer player Mr. Abdulla Haaris.

Haaris has been very successful in shaping the motives of the teens who otherwise most of the time keeps hanging around the island disgracefully. There are around twenty-five teens attending his camp everyday at Hulhudhoo Football Ground. “I am very happy to see Haaris leading these children to right track” delighted a woman residing near football ground. She praised ex addicts participating in the game and helping Haaris to form younger generation of Hulhudhoo footballers.

Unavailability of proper football ground is one of the major problems facing any soccer player in Hulhudhoo today. The present ground is never maintained during the year, leaving grasses to grow above two to three feet every year, until HSC hires a lawn mower and cut the grasses. Another main problem faced by modern football players today is lack of lighting facility in the ground to play their game in the night. Either teens find it difficult to play in day light for the fear of getting tan or they just like to play in the night.

Indeed the need for a better football ground with proper lighting facility is necessary for Hulhudhoo today. “Except Hulhudhoo and Meedhoo, rest of the islands in Addu has high quality football pitches with adequate lighting facility, why not we? Is it because they are “Adduans” and we are “Seenu” Atoll people?” complained a youth. Hithadhoo alone has three high quality pitches, so do Feydhoo and Maradhoo.

Certainly, we hope youth concerns, relating to these sorts of socially vital issues, will shortly begin to reach the ears of the respective authorities as, first time in history, a constituency for Hulhumeedhoo has been declared. View Photos

Hulhudhoo youth conducted a meeting at Hulhudhoo Meedhoo Health Center on finding ways to fight eradicate the mosquitoes and overcome the consequences of its single deadly bite. Outbreak of Dengue’s deadly virus has been imminent recently in Hulhudhoo. A boy who became the victim of lethal bite by a mosquito a month ago is fighting for life in Indhira Gandhi Memorial Hospital (IGMH) today.

Hulhudhoo Office, Health Center and Dr. Afeef, personally, assured their interest and support for this campaign. “We are very happy to see the youth initiation and involvement in such a vital and unprecedented social issue, which we failed to continue consistently”, Ms Aminath Mohamed Didi, In charge of Health Center, said. She confirmed that Health Center would assist and support the youth in this process. “Spraying of chemicals will simply flee the mosquitoes temporarily”, Dr. Afeef stated. According to him, mosquito eggs must be destroyed primarily. He also said, “It’s important to know that mosquitoes which spread dengue viruses grow in clean areas unlike other sorts of mosquitoes”

Although much of the invitees could not attend the meeting due to rain, everybody felt the importance of immediate action on this issue. Hulhumeedhoo Police chief Adhil confirmed their support and gave their commitment to involve in the cleaning process practically. In the coming days the organizing committee will undergo workshops to prepare for surveying. No sooner do the survey finish, then the task of cleaning, spraying and educating people will follow.