MDP Government and it's Free Giveaways

Tune Hotels offered six islands in Maldives

By Lee Wei Lian

SEPANG, May 3 — The hospitality arm of the Tune Group, which controls budget carrier AirAsia, has been offered six islands in the luxury resort destination of Maldives where it can operate, said AirAsia CEO Datuk Seri Tony Fernandes.

AirAsia plans to start flying to the Maldives some time in the next six months.

Tune Hotels recently also announced plans to expand abroad, in Southeast Asia and Britain.

“AirAsia was invited to come and Tune Hotels was given six islands to build,” said Fernandes in a media briefing today.

A spokesman for AirAsia told The Malaysian Insider however that Tune Hotels has not decided yet if it will take up the offer.

Tune Hotels, a budget hotel chain, recently signed a RM746 million deal with London based Queensway Group to build 15 hotels in Britain.

Source: The Malaysian Insider

Maldivian Falls Victim to a Scam Again... !!!!

And Now another Maldivian falls victim. read article on haveeru

The following article was first published on Monday, May 25, 2009

This is exactly what I feel when a PC reseller in Maldives wins awards almost 3 consecutive years for quality. There are so many, more qualified PC distributors and resellers across the globe. Like IngramMicro or CDW or TechData. But why on earth would a plaque be awarded to a firm in Maldives for selling PCs. If it was beaches, luxury travel or fishing I can understand.

So, about a year back I did some google searching for the credibility of this so called “BID” award for Quality and Blah Blah…. And here is what I found.

1. Look up google for “business initiative directions” (that is what B.I.D stands for) and you find all sorts of web addresses under different domains listing the so called BID awards.To name a few

http://www.bid-paris.com/en/main.php

http://www.bid-org.com/menu.htm

http://worldquality.org/en/index.php

http://bid-planet.com/conbordes_archivos/index.htm

http://www.bid-quality.com/en/index.php

http://www.bid-qualitysummit.com/en/index.php

This is loads of more websites belonging to BID so they will get you the moment you type “Business Initiative Directions” on google.

2. Now let’s look at the sponsors of BID awards and the magazines on which they publish about the awards

The Magazines:

http://www.hnova.com

http://www.brandazo.com

http://www.gperson.com/

http://www.centrexp.com/

http://www.neussner.com/

http://www.gatewaycnet.com/ - New (2010)

http://www.ideasb2b.com/ - (New 2010)

Don’t you find it a little awkward that all these magazines publish only news feeds form other sources. They do not have any genuine content whatsoever. Ah… except for BID award news just to amuse you.. And all these magazines is owned by Imapress. And to deceive people they have huge pictures of World leaders on the covers of these magazines that are printed only once a year. you get my point right?....

The Main Sponsor

http://www.imarpress.com

The website of Main Sponsor is worse. Look at that website, nothing but hyperlinks.

3. Ok… now the people who pay huge sums of money, travel to Geneva and Paris and fetch these awards.

Do you guys know any company by the name Jorio Coca Cola Corse. You get the idea rigt? And if you look up google for the “Jorio Coca Cola Corse” you will only find this company only on the websites that I have highlighted at the top. Maybe the real name of Coca Cola Company is Jorio Coca Cola Corse. I don’t know! but these guys received the award.

The second type of deceit is when they use a small branch of a huge company and award them. Here is one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkfePm4HoBQ&feature=channel_page

But that is Indian Oil (Mauritius) and they don’t make a big fuss out of it. They have not even mentioned about this particular award on their website.

http://www.ioml.mu/en/news/

The third type: Who pay thousands of dollars each year to buy this award, well literally, and showcase it at their sales centre.

http://www.megachiplive.com/company/news-events/president-congratulates-megachip-maldives

And unfortunately one is a Board member of Dhiraagu and the other one is an Elected MP.

http://www.megachiplive.com

I wrote to Megachip about a year ago explaining all what I have found out above but they never bothered. Go see the awards at Megachip showroom, Majeedi Magu

Cheers to all....

And Now another Maldivian falls victim. visit link

And the OSCAR goes to! ....%$#$%-----ILYAS LABEEB

To read more about "OSCARS" click here

Scaling down the Expat Labor Force

It seems that the current government is pretty keen on getting down the number of expats working in Maldives. They seem to making life difficult for each and every Maldivian in bringing expats for employment. One thing I have come across is that when the Government is so keen on getting the number down the government should at least try and get their head expat count down.

We have a pretty huge reserve force at MNDF who the people are paying huge amounts of money for their pay, family medicals, accommodation, food and other incentive. This reserve force can be utilized for community service like keeping our infrastructure up and running. For example; how about sending all laborers at Male’ Municipality and hand over that work to MNDF. I believe there will be hundreds and hundreds of laborers employed at Municipality.

The same goes with other government bodies. Instead of paying thousands of people who basically stay home give them some work to do. At least they would earn some after some sweat.

Is Megachip really a Dell Authorized Service Provider?

The recent appointment of Megachip as a Dell partner in Maldives is in many ways a very good initiative of the World's second largest computer manufacturer.

Megachip, a very capable company in the areas of retail and government tenders would be a huge boost to Dell's business in Maldives.

However, Megachip is not the only Dell Authorized distributor in Maldives. I did a little research into the legitimacy of Megachip's claims to be a partner and I have found out that there is a another partner is Maldives.

The question that came to my mind was, if there is another Dell distributor in Maldives why on earth aren't we hearing about them. So with the help Dell's corporate website I was able to search their contact by just typing 'Dell Maldives Partner' on google.

http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/ap/topics/contacts/en/sadm_contacts?c=ap&l=en&s=gen&~section=011

A company named Azimuth Pvt Ltd. So I gave them a call. The answer I got from them was:

"As Dell's business model is to concentrate on Corporate and Government requirements and not to do retail consumer business AND as our business model is very much inline with Dell's model where we concentrate on solution design and implementation we do not want to concentrate on consumer". I followed by asking why they did not want to have an out let at least. "We do not want to do retail as I said earlier, But we are in the process of opening a demonstration showroom. It is not going to be entirely Dell but as we are Partners for Oracle, microsoft and Juniper, we would be doing solutions presentations there. Ofcourse all this will be based on Dell hardware".

I asked if Azimuth is also an Dell Authorized Service Provider. "As to our knowledge Dell has not accredited any partners in Maldives to be an Authorized Service Provider or DASP as in Dell's terms". So I asked why Megachip has the "DASP" sign inside their service Center. "Megachip will be in a better position to validate that for you".

So I did try to validate this but with little luck. But I found the "DASP" policy online. Looks like Megachip has bit of a long way to go achieve the "DASP".

http://www.dell.com/downloads/ap/services/indirect.pdf

Not Corruption but Daylight Robbery - STO episodes....

When you think of corruption the first person to come to our minds is Yaamin... When we all believe and know that Yamin has a hierarchy of loyalists who facilitates his inflow into his wealth. These corruption and whitewash machines have been in motion for the past 20 odd years and has built an empire for Yaamin along the way and pocketing some for them selves.

It was this governments first mistake not get rid of them in the first place when they had the chance. After just a year in power we are seeing these Yaamin's machines disguise themselves as MDP loyals and do havoc to places. A classic example is STO Shareef....

Like a plaque Shareef has spread the virus of corruption into the new management of STO. From a simple deal to million dollar deals, the new management of STO and relatives of this management are pocketing huge amounts of money under the watch of Finance Ministry including the ever strong State Minister Assad, the Minister Ali Hashim and even fooling Anni into thinking that who they have appointed are indeed working for the betterment of the people.

Tomorrow we will see light to the news of Megachip (The most corrupt Computer seller during Golhaa's regime who embezzled millions using corrupt tactics mostly at Education Ministry) practicing the same tactics during the current yellow revolution.

In the coming days you will hear about more corruption inside STO partnered by Soarey, Shad (Relative of Megachip family), Shareef and even Sana Mansoor.

I have begun to believe that this is "Wathan Edhey Goiy"....

STO – Dhen V Hiyaanaiy - 2009

New Government, New heads of Companies and new wave of corruption. I think this is what we should expect just after one year in power by the current Government.

Yes, corruption is rife, it is happening. New Managing Director twisting and turning documents to favor their cousin brothers. Yes, tenders are re-tendered until cousin brothers come up with the right figure. And they just did. The tender has been submitted today and we will all see it getting awarded to the cousin brothers.

In the coming days you will be hearing more on the MD and the cousin bother’s episodes to exactly how they did it. In the meantime let us all join hands and sing along….

Esss Teee Oohh – Dhen Vee Hiyaanaaiy… Esss Teee Oohhh – Dhen Vee Hiyaanaaiy…