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Ana Violeta Navarro-Cárdenas (née Navarro Flores; [1] born December 28, 1971) [2] is a Nicaraguan-American political strategist and commentator. She appears on various television programs and news outlets, including CNN , CNN en Español , [ 3 ] ABC News , and Telemundo . [ 4 ]
The Maldives has experienced relatively low inflation throughout the recent years. Real GDP growth averaged about 10% in the 1980s. It expanded by an exceptional 16.2% in 1990, declined to 4% in 1993, and, over the 1995–2004 decade, real GDP growth averaged just over 7.5% per year.
The Maldives rates "high" on the Human Development Index, [17] with per capita income significantly higher than other SAARC nations. [18] The Maldives was a member of the Commonwealth of Nations from July 1982 until withdrawing from the organisation in October 2016 in protest of allegations of its human rights abuses and failing democracy. [19]
The coconut is widely used in the Maldives. The "Dhivehi Odi" built of coconut timber was used for inter island transport."Dhivehi Odi" is also a reference to "Kalhu'oh'fummi" the ship used by Muhammad Thakurufaanu and his brothers Ali and Hassan when they were fighting to liberate Maldives.
Even today in some atolls, the modern day marine GPS can be inaccurate. The GPS mapping may indicate reef where it does not exist and does not show other reefs where they are located. Owing to the many beautiful diving grounds of the numerous atolls of the Maldives, this country has been marketed as a prime destination for scuba divers ...
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Out of 1,192 islands of the Maldives, 187 are inhabited. [1] They are listed by administrative division/atoll. The islands are divided into: Inhabited islands - those officially recognized as towns, villages, fishing, and farming communities with permanent human habitation. They all have an island office and island chiefs (councilor and ...
VTV is the first media outlet of IBC (now VMEDIA) while being the second private TV channel to operate in the Maldives. Since its inception in 2008, VTV had been broadcasting via satellite to a global audience, covering the whole of Maldives and neighboring countries, reaching out to Europe and Middle East.