By Abdul H. Azeez The Beira Lake is a landmark of Colombo. Its green waterfronts are overlooked by five-star hotels and slums alike. People take pleasure rides on swan boats, others race in organised competition while some others can be seen fishing! It is no secret to anyone that the Beira is immensely polluted. Excrement [...]
Sri Lanka’s Chief of Immigration has terminated the visa given to Ms. Elizabeth Ogaya who is the Project Co-ordinator of the Human Rights Defenders Protection Programme (HRDPP). Ms. Ogaya, the Kenyan born HR professional is attached to the US-based Non Violence Peace Force (NVPF) in Colombo and was given until the 30th of August to [...]
Customs Trade Union Demands Letter From P. B. AG Slammed For Ambiguous Advice By Faraz Shauketaly A key trade union in the Sri Lanka Customs has requested that the Treasury Secretary, Dr. P. B. Jayasundara confirms in writing his verbal instructions to the Director General of Customs, Suddharma Karunaratna, to follow advice of the Attorney [...]
PATHE ACADEMY has paved the way for Sri Lankan students to study medicine at the Angeles University Foundation (AUF) in Philippines and is in a position to provide all necessary information and also handle documentation to ensure admission to the chosen course of study. It has been duly accredited by the Angeles University Foundation (AFU) [...]
Sri Lanka has the potentiality of being a global tea hub if only it liberalises its tea industry, an exporter said. Rohan Fernando, Chairman, HVA Group, speaking at a seminar in Colombo on Wednesday said that Sri Lanka with an annual tea export capacity of 300 million kilos, was operating on a comparatively smaller canvas, [...]
By Ranee Mohamed in Kamburupitiya With the surgical removal of over 23 approximately 2 inch-sized nails from the body of newly returned housemaid from Saudi Arabia Lahanda Purage Ariyawathie Friday, investigations began here in Kamburupitiya with the OICKamburupitiya I.P. Abeysekera and his team of officers making the initial investigations. As her helpless husband and children [...]
By Nirmala Kannangara Ceylon Petroleum Storage Terminal Limited (CPSTL) employees are up in arms against its Chairman for his failure to hold investigations into fuel frauds carried out by the private bowser owners. Continuous fuel frauds carried out by owners of private fuel bowsers over the past several years has now come to a serious [...]
Jack Anderson, the controversial American columnist of the 1970s, in his work The Anderson Papers, quotes a tyrannical CEO of the notorious American corporate giant ITT addressing a meeting of ITT executives: ‘Gentlemen, I have been thinking. Bull times zero is zero bull. Bull divided by zero is infinity bull. And I am sick and [...]
A Central Bank (CB) officer saw nothing wrong in the EPF, which is administered by it, investing in equity stakes in banks. This was after it was pointed out by The Sunday Leader that the law allegedly precludes the EPF from investing in banks as such investments were tantamount to being “conflict of interest,” as [...]
Taxation, devolution and no time bar in regard to court rulings on investments were identified as being the three reasons why investments were not taking place in the country by a Ceylon Chamber of Commerce (CCC) source speaking on the grounds of anonymity to The Sunday leader. “Investors are awaiting the outcome of the Presidential [...]
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