By Cassandra Mascarenhas
In August 2009, the Director of Environmental Management of the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka (BOI) attempted to illegally obtain environmental approval for the construction of an industrial park in Mirigama from the Central Environmental Authority.
The Board of Investment of Sri Lanka commenced an environmental examination of the Mahayaya Estate in Mirigama [...]
By Nirmala Kannangara
Disregarding the Election Commissioner’s directives, the Urban Development Authority (UDA) has released several vehicles from its fleet for election campaign work in Matale, Deniyaya and Colombo, The Sunday Leader learns.
Seven UDA double cabs bearing registration numbers 59-214, 57-4068, 54-7027, 54-7502, 57-4065, 58-7245 and 56-3242, as well as a motor car, registration number 15-8430, [...]
By Prof. Charles Ponnuthurai Sarvan
Robert Burns claimed that, despite poverty, “A man’s a man for all that.” Those who know the circumstances of his early years will understand the defiant assertion of the song, but poverty means meagre food, if not starvation; inadequate protection from the weather, and shabby, tattered, clothes. It means a shrunken [...]
By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema
An initiative of Transparency International of Sri Lanka (TISL), the Programme for Protection of Public Resources (PPPR), notes that the governing party in its presidential election campaign has during December misused state resources amounting to millions of rupees.
The PPPR has also stated that the Tharunyata Hetak youth organisation headed by the President’s [...]
By Nirmala Kannangara
Ceylon Petroleum Storage Terminal (CPSTL) employees are up in arms against its Chairman (Rtd) Maj. Gen. M. R. W. De Soyza’s wasteful expenses, CPSTL sources told The Sunday Leader.
Since assuming duties four months ago De Soyza has spent Rs. 7 million to refurbish his office, while another Rs. 17.4 million has been spent [...]
