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| NFF against change Nat. Anthem version change |
| 2013-01-27 |
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NFF against change Nat. Anthem version change
The National Freedom Front (NFF) has decried National Languages and Social Integration Minister Vasudeva Nanayakkara’s proposal to introduce a new version of the National Anthem, to be sung in both Sinhala and Tamil, at the 65th Independence Day celebrations.
A senior spokesperson for breakaway JVP faction told The Island that post-war national reconciliation wouldn’t be possible through such moves.
Asked whether the NFF would mobilise the people against
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| Addressing Sri Lanka’s Twin National Questions |
| 2013-01-27 |
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Good evening, it’s a pleasure to be speaking to you – though I am disappointed not to be able to be there with you in person. Unfortunately, London isn’t quite as good at handling snow as Toronto. I was looking forward very much to celebrating Thai Pongal with you all and to meeting many of you and to learning more about the Canadian Tamil community. I hope I will be able to join you at a future celebration. I would like to thank Danton Thurairajah and the Canadian Tamil Congress for the invitation to speak and I hope t
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| Sri Lankan housemaid says she saw a part of her finger on the ground |
| 2013-01-26 |
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Over the recent past there have been several reports of Sri Lankan women working abroad as domestic help being harassed.
A Sri Lankan woman who sustained injuries to two fingers while working in Jordan as a domestic worker returned to the country on Thursday.
Renuka Damayanthi Herath from Saliyagama, Kurunegala, left for Jordan last year in order to find a way to resolve the economic woes of her family.
She hoped to build a permanent abode for her family.
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| There is a tendency of provoking racial clashes in the country - Anura Kumara Dissanayake |
| 2013-01-26 |
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Speaking in Parliament Thursday, DNA Parliamentarian Anura Kumara Dissanayake questioned as to what steps the government is taking to combat the rising incidents of racial and religious clashes.
DNA Parliamentarian Anura Kumara Dissanayake shared these thoughts
'There is a tendency of provoking racial clashes in the country. No matter who incites such clashes, it will ultimately have a bad effect on the whole society.'
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| Mundalama Crime Division OIC interdicted |
| 2013-01-26 |
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The Officer-in-Charge of the Crime Division of the Mundalama Police has been interdicted.
A senior police officer in charge of the area said a sub Inspector of police who was functioning as the OIC of the Crime Division was interdicted for failing to carry out his duties in relation to a criminal act.
It had been revealed that the sub-inspector of police had failed to register a complaint that had been lodged regarding a theft at a house in the area.
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| Rizana died as a child who was denied her fundamental rights - WFR |
| 2013-01-26 |
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The Women for Rights organisation held a media briefing on Wednesday.
Attention was focussed on the execution of Sri Lankan domestic worker Rizana Nafeek in
Saudi Arabia and the rights of women who are employed overseas.
''She was below 18 years of age. She was tortured and imprisoned for seven and a half years but the government failed to present facts or take legal action on behalf of her. Not even the minimal requirement of a translator was given. A man from Kerala who looks after sheep in that country
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| Sri Lanka limits maids working Saudi Arabia after beheading |
| 2013-01-26 |
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Sri Lanka will limit the amount of women that go to Saudi Arabia to work as housemaids as outrage continues over Saudi Arabia's beheading of a Sri Lankan teen.
Officials this week raised the minimum age for female domestic workers so that no women under the age of 25 would be allowed to go to Saudi Arabia to work as a maid, said Keheliya Rambukwella, a government spokesman.
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| Sri Lankan SEP condemns defence ministry ban on Jaffna meeting |
| 2013-01-26 |
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In an attack on the basic democratic rights of the Socialist Equality Party (SEP), the Ministry of Defence illegally directed the management of Weerasingham Hall, in the northern town of Jaffna, to cancel its booking for an SEP public meeting scheduled for last Sunday. The SEP nevertheless proceeded with the meeting outside the hall. (See: “SEP holds meeting in Jaffna despite military threats”)
The SEP and the International Students for Social Equality (ISSE) organised the public meeting to introduce its perspectiv
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| Drug-purchasing committees highly corrupt-Maithripala |
| 2013-01-26 |
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The Minister of Health Maithripala Sirisena said 20% technical assessment committees of the Ministry appointed to purchase drugs were highly corrupt.
Issuing a press release the Minister stated that the Technical Assessment Committees did not have any right to directly talk or write to the medicine suppliers who volunteered for tenders.
“In an investigation I conducted, we learned that during the purchasing of drugs, some technical assessment committees delayed the issuing of technical reports for
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| No civilians went missing: Gotabaya |
| 2013-01-26 |
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Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa rejected claims yesterday that civilians had gone missing in the North during the last stages of the war, insisting that all records maintained by the Army and the ICRC tallied with no discrepancies.
Responding to a question posed by a journalist, the Defence Secretary said that the people who came to the Army by sea, during the final stages of the war were registered with the ICRC and with the “Indian hospitals manned by the Indian Army, and not a single person is missing from that l
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