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| The Middle Managers of Ethnic Cleansing |
| 2013-02-13 |
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There is a popular saying amongst the Tamils, “even if one grazes chicken (which is really a non existent work), it should be grazed in the government”. Employment in the government sector is coveted for the respect it commands in society and the social security it provides to the individual in terms of permanency and pension benefits. There are other economic and social benefits as well. From the peon to the level of the director, all government employees who are bachelors are able to bargain bigger dowry packages for
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| Protesters should be investigated for ISI links – Swamy |
| 2013-02-13 |
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Sri Lanka should do its best to eschew terrorism and the international community should help the island nation to crush terror and those who fan the flames of separatism such as Vaiko should be arrested and investigated, Indian Janatha Party Leader, Dr. Subramanian Swamy said.
In an interview with Ceylon Today, Harvard scholar, economist and former Indian Cabinet Minister said that mischievous elements within India have aided Sri Lanka’s separatists cause and warned, if allowed to continue, they will also seek to divide
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| Doors open to undergrads – SB |
| 2013-02-13 |
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The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and the Jatika Peratugami Pakshaya are trying to create a wedge between the Sinhalese and Tamils, Higher Education Minister S B Dissanayake said. He said they are using university students as cats paw to achieve their objectives.
The minister was speaking at a ceremony at the University Grants Commission to mark the assumption of duties by former University of Colombo Vice Chancellor Prof Kshenika Hiriburegama as the University Grants Commission chairman. He said university students can disc
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| Mother seeks justice |
| 2013-02-13 |
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Giving evidence at the inquiry into the death of a five-year-old girl at the Colombo Nawaloka Hospital, the mother today pleaded in Court not to let the investigations into the death of her daughter is covered up by the money power.
The 40-year-old Indumathi Ekanayake a resident of Heiyantuduwa told Colombo Fort Magistrate Kanishka Wijeratne that she was making such a request because similar tragedies could happen to other patients in the future. The Magistrate observed that he would conduct a fair inquiry in accordance
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| Hathurusinghe warns TNA parliamentarian |
| 2013-02-13 |
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The Jaffna Security Forces (SF) Commander, Major General Mahinda Hathurusinghe, has threatened legal action against the Jaffna District Tamil National Alliance (TNA) parliamentarian and the Uthayan newspaper publisher, E. Saravanabawan, for false reportage.
News reports in the Uthayan and Thinakkural newspapers had allegedly accused the government and the Army of being responsible for the attack on the Thinakkural distributer in Kopay last week, and held the Jaffna Commander responsible for the attack. Maj. Gen. Hathurusinghe,
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| Decision tomorrow on re-opening Moratuwa Uni. sections? |
| 2013-02-13 |
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Vice Chancellor of the Moratuwa University, Prof. Ananda Jayawardena, yesterday said that they would decide
on the date of re-opening the Engineering Faculty and the Institute of Technology after the Faculty Board meets tomorrow (13).
He said the decision would be taken after studying the recommendations, of the Faculty Board, on the security situation.
"We held meetings with parents of the students last week," Prof. Jayawardena said adding that parents were made aware of the situation in the
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| Debt ridden CPC spends Rs. 10 mn to welcome new Minister |
| 2013-02-13 |
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The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) has spent Rs. 4.2 million to colour wash its Sapugaskanda complex to welcome new Petroleum Minister Anura Priyadharshana Yapa today at 10.00 a.m.
The overtime payment to about 400 workers, who had colour washed the refinery, for four days was estimated to be Rs. 3.2 million.
The Corporation has also purchased for the event, at Rs. 3,200 each.
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| UN report on high-handed US action couldn’t have come at a better time -Dullas |
| 2013-02-12 |
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Youth Affairs and Skills Development Minister Dullas Alahapepruma yesterday said that an explosive UN report on heavy-handed US military action causing deaths of hundreds of children in Afghanistan couldn’t have come at a better time as the world’s solitary superpower intensified pressure on Sri Lanka on the human rights front.
The Minister pointed out that the US recently declared its intention to move a second resolution against Sri Lanka at the forthcoming sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNH
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| Cops confused on human trafficking |
| 2013-02-12 |
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Secretary to the Ministry of Justice and Chairperson, National Anti-Trafficking Task Force, Kamalini de Silva, International Labour Organisation (ILO), Country Director for Sri Lanka and Maldives Donglin Li, Secretary to the Ministry of Child Development and Women’s Affairs Eric Illayapparachchi, Embassy of the United States of America, Thomas Radke and Director of the Sri Lanka Press Institute, Manik de Silva. Pic by Kamal Bogoda
By Maheesha Mudugamuwa
Human trafficking was one of the most lucrative criminal
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| CHOGM in Sri Lanka as scheduled |
| 2013-02-12 |
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The Commonwealth summit will be held in Sri Lanka as scheduled, the official spokesperson and Director of Communications and Public Affairs at the Commonwealth Secretariat, Richard Uku, told the Colombo Gazette.
He also denied reports that some countries had requested that the summit be shifted out of Sri Lanka over human rights allegations.
“No member government of the Commonwealth has called for CHOGM 2013 to be moved from Sri Lanka. Preparations are underway for the summit to be held in Colombo as scheduled
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