# Business & Infrastructure

- [Rebuilding a city that cannot stop: Malé's flooded streets and the cost of putting a nation on two square kilometres](https://www.goodmorningmaldives.com/news/male-rebuilding-city-cannot-stop-flooding-concentration) — 2026-10-23, Business & Infrastructure — A 90 mm storm flooded Malé on 21 October 2026. GMM's analysis of 51 years of rain, the tide gauge and the drains finds an island that has lost the capacity to cope, and sets out how to rebuild it without stopping the city.
- [Why a rolling lease strengthens the Ras Malé development instead of weakening it](https://www.goodmorningmaldives.com/news/rolling-lease-strengthens-ras-male-development) — 2026-09-23, Business & Infrastructure — Critics see the Ras Malé rolling lease as a risk. We argue it supports development: it stops leases losing value, helps pay for infrastructure and gives the State income from every sale, while the land is never sold. We list the conditions it must meet.
- [Rasmalé: the questions are fair, and here are the answers](https://www.goodmorningmaldives.com/news/rasmale-the-questions-are-fair-and-here-are-the-answers) — 2026-09-23, Business & Infrastructure — In an op-ed, Housing Minister Abdulla Muththalib answers critics of the Rasmalé agreement with Eagle Hills: no upfront cheque but TGST, a 10 percent revenue share and 4 percent on property sales, all receipts held in escrow in the Maldives; homes in Hulhumalé funded up front.

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