Maldives is a country where you would not find a single correlation between fat salaries to public officials and improvement of the sorry situation we are in, even if you spend 100 lifetimes to search for it. Take a look at how money and blood is squeezed from our systems (literately and figuratively) for the past decade. In this decade we have lost count of how many times the salaries, perks, benefits to public officials are raised. For instance, number of tourists coming to Maldives is at an all time high reaching nearly a million. Yet, Maldivian businesses are begging for dollars. The banks do not have funds to give loans for ordinary citizens. Where is all the money? Maldivian businesses (especially tourism) using every available resource in the country to make profits, are happy to keep a paltry amount for salaries in our banks and stash the rest in foreign banks, leaving our economy, ordinary businesses and citizens dry. MMA and the polic...
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