The Maldives Ports Limited (MPL) has announced job opportunities for various administrative work at a planned commercial port in Laamu Gaadhoo where development has yet to begin.
The MPL job announcements were gazetted on Sunday. The application deadline expired on Wednesday.
A total of three posts were announced.
Coordinator operations overall
An employee was sought for this post to oversee all work at the port and to carry out all administrative tasks at the department. However, there is no port in Gaadhoo yet.
Assistant administrative associate
Three employees were sought for this post. The job responsibilities included all administrative work at the port.
Office assistant
An employee was sought for this post to do all the cleaning work in the department. Gaadhoo was stated as the place of work but there is no MPL office on the island yet.
According to the announcement, walk-in interviews with interested candidates were due to take place at the Laamu Fonadhoo council office from 10 am to 12 pm on Wednesday.
A source with knowledge of the matter told Adhadhu that there is no MPL office or other facility in Gaadhoo with work on the port yet to begin.
The government said a transshipment port with the capacity to provide bunkering services is to be developed in Gaadhoo. Work will begin during the first 100 days of the new administration, the government previously said.
Abdul Raheem Abdulla, the President's chief minister who is contesting for the Fonadhoo constituency's parliament seat, recently attended a meeting held by MPL on the island to provide information about the project.
Gaadhoo is a protected island. Environment conservation groups expressed concern over the decision to develop a port on the island.
Gaadhoo was formerly an inhabited island. The island's residents were relocated to Laamu Fonadhoo in 2016. Gaadhoo's south and western beaches have long been noted as turtle nesting sites. Six types of seagrass and 91 species of reef fish were recorded in the seagrass beds surrounding the island. This idyllic island also has a freshwater mangrove.
