The full dollar limit saga If you feel like BML’s USD limits keep changing every few months, that’s because they do. But it wasn’t always like this. Before COVID, things were simple. If you had a debit card linked to...
Alhamdhlillaahi! What a year 2025 has been. If 2024 felt fast, 2025 somehow managed to move even quicker. At this point, I’m convinced time accelerates in direct proportion to responsibility, uncertainty, and the number of things you’re juggling at once....
When the government launched the Binveriyaa housing scheme in 2022, it was presented as a long-overdue solution to housing shortages in the Greater Malé Region. The policy immediately sparked multiple debates — about whether the state should be giving away...
Why I Wrote This With the grand opening of Velana International Airport (VIA)’s new terminal scheduled for 26th July 2025, there’s been a surge of renewed debate on Maldivian social media about the controversial decision to terminate the GMR airport...
Alhamdhlillaahi! What a year has 2024 been! As you keep getting older and older, time keeps moving faster. It’s the end of another year and time to reflect back. Before I started writing this article I’ve finally updated the hosting...
Alhamdhlillaahi! What a year has 2023 been! It went by so fast. Seems like as you keep getting older, time moves faster. Now that I’m 30 I should expect this I guess. 2023 had been a year of change for...
Recently, at Javaabu we had increased the salaries of all our developers for the new year 2023. Since we hired our first staff in 2018, every year we had been incrementing staff salaries to match their improving skill and education...
Alhamdhlillaahi! What a year had 2022 been for me! This was a year that many of my prayers were finally answered. After months of planning and jumping over several hurdles thrown by Covid, I finally got married to the love...
Wow, another year has passed, just like that! And we are still in the Covid-19 pandemic, 2 years on with no end in sight. With the release of the vaccines, most of us, including me, thought that Covid-19 would be...