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| Black July: What Really Happened At Kanatte? |
| 2013-07-27 |
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As indicated above, there are different versions and impressions about what happened at Kanatte on the 24th evening. We give below crucial pieces of testimony, which help to fill some glaring gaps. The first is an eyewitness account by a responsible member of the Ceylon Mercantile Union and is extracted from a statement issued by the General Secretary, dated 23rd August 1983:
“According to our member’s statement, he had first gone to the funeral parlour of A.F. Raymond & Co. near Kanatte ceme
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| Lankans escape detention |
| 2013-07-27 |
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Three Sri Lankans have escaped from a detention center in Sukabumi, Indonesia.
The three Sri Lankans and three Iranians were reported missing when a head count was done on the number of immigrants at the center.
Berita Satu news reported that there were initially 66 illegal immigrants at the location at Selabintana Road, Falkirk village in Sukabumi District but now there are 60.
Chief of Enforcement officer at the Sub Sukabumi Immigration Office, Irfan Sapar Somantri, said that they did not know how the S
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| Docs, nurses clash, crippling Kandy hospital |
| 2013-07-27 |
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Doctors and nurses clashed over a room once again at the Kandy General Hospital (KGH) yesterday and the former struck work in protest.
The Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) warned doctors would resort to further trade union action after a special meeting to be held at 8.00 am today (27) unless the Health Ministry conducted an inquiry into what it called nurses’ high-handed acts.
President of the KGH Branch Union and Vice President of the Government Medical Officers’ Association, Dr. Saman Ka
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| SB accuses GMOA of sinister motive |
| 2013-07-27 |
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Higher Education Minister SB Dissanayake told Parliament yesterday that the Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) was opposed to allied health science degrees awarded by the Peradeniya University.
The Minister was responding to a query raised by Kalutara District UNP MP Ajith P. Perera, who asked what action the government, which had executive powers and a two thirds majority in Parliament, could do to prevent it.
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| Visa law breakers warned |
| 2013-07-27 |
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Visitors to the country on tourist visas who engage in business activities in contravention of Immigration and Emigration laws will be rounded up and deported after being blacklisted, Controller of Immigration ad Emigration Chulananda Perera said .
He said special units have been set up at Police Stations to arrest such wrong doers.
Police spokesman SP Buddhika Siriwardena said information has been received about a large number of people coming on tourist visas, hiding specially in the North and East and engagi
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| Garbage posing a big challenge |
| 2013-07-27 |
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Solving the garbage problem remained a big challenge and as far as the local government authorities were concerned, Local Government and Provincial Councils Ministry Secretary R. A. A. K. Ranawake said, noting a that lackadaisical attitude would only make the situation worse. "If the local communities do not find a solution for the country’s garbage issue, we will run out of land to dump the waste and will soon be walking on streets full of garbage."
Ranawaka was addressing the media on Thursday (25) in Colombo
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| Insurance and life jacket compulsory for Sri Lankan fishermen from next year |
| 2013-07-27 |
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Sri Lanka Minister of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Rajitha Senaratne says that it will be mandatory for the sea going fishermen of the country to wear life jackets from January 01, 2014.
In addition, the life insurance also will be made compulsory for them, the Minister says.
The Minister explained in parliament yesterday that these measures are taken to guarantee the safety of the fishermen and their families.
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| U.N. ‘Troubled’ by Australia’s Policy on Asylum Seekers |
| 2013-07-26 |
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The United Nations said Friday that it was “troubled” by Australia’s new policy to stem the tide of people undertaking dangerous boat journeys to seek asylum there, the latest in a series of public criticisms of the government’s tough new deterrence-based approach.
The majority of asylum seekers are people from Iran, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka who set out in crowded, often unsafe vessels for Christmas Island, a remote territory in the Indian Ocean that is Australia’s closest point to Indonesia.
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| Cameron to raise concerns |
| 2013-07-26 |
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British Prime Minister David Cameron will press UK concerns on Sri Lanka in line Britain’s own assessment of the situation in Sri Lanka when he visits the country in November.
Senior Minister of State, Department for Communities and Local Government and Foreign and Commonwealth Office Baroness Sayeeda Warsi told the House of Lords that Cameron and UK foreign secretary, William Hague will raise their concerns when they attend the Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka in November.
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| Sri Lankan President orders appointment of commission to probe disappearances |
| 2013-07-26 |
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Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has directed Secretary to the President Lalith Weeratunga to appoint a commission to look into the incidents of disappearance that have taken place during the , the President's media unit said.
The decision with regard to the terms of reference and members of the commission will be taken soon, President's spokesman Mohan Samaranayake said.
Announcing the President's order the President's media unit said his move to appoint such a commission i
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