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Jaffna products reach Colombo
In a clear sign of growing North-South commerce 28 lorry
loads of northern produce, including two freezer truck loads of
famed crabs
and prawns were dispatched to Colombo from there
early this week.
Jaffna Government Agent K. Ganesh revealed last night
that because of the growing...
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NFF gets ministerial posts this week
Ending months of speculation, the National Freedom Front sources
said yesterday that NFF MPs Nandana Gunathilake and Piyasiri
Wijenayake will be sworn in as ministers next week. However they
ruled out the
possibility of
their Chairman Wimal Weerawansa accepting any...
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Sri Lanka charges IMF of politicising financial aid
Sri Lanka on Friday accused the International Monetary Fund
of politicising financial aid for delaying the 1.9 billion
dollar bailout it requested for the post-war resettlement and
reconciliation process
in the country.
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“Law Week 2009”
The Bar Association of Sri Lanka yesterday
inaugurated its Exhibition and Legal Aid Clinic as part of its
“Law Week 2009” programme at the Courts Complex at Hulftsdorp.
Among those present on the occasion were acting Chief Justice
Ms. Shirani Bandaranayake, Attorney General Mohan Pieris,
President of the Court of Appeal Sathya Hettige, BASL President
W. Dayaratne and its Secretary U.R. de Silva. Here in the
picture acting Chief Justice and the Attorney General is seen
inspecting one of the stalls.
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Foreigners among those arrested over plot to kill President
Police Intelligence have commenced investigations to take into
custody two politicians said to be involved in a plot to kill
the President with the aid of certain INGOs.
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Birds die of Salmonella virus – Warning to humans in the area
The cause behind the death of the several birds in the vicinity
of the Hambegamuwa Tank in Tanamalwila has been identified as an
infection of the salmonella virus in the water, according to Dr.
R. M. Ariyadasa, Provincial Director of the Department of Animal
Production and Heathcare for the Uva Province.
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Royal honours its heroes
Royal College has made arrangements to honour and pay tribute to
old Royalists who paid the supreme sacrifice to safeguard the
sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country, and to
honour and felicitate Royalists who are in active service of the
Sri Lanka
Armed Forces, Police and the Civil Defense Force.
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SLPI condemns reappearance of white van
The Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI)
condemning the abduction of journalist Krishni Ifham early this
week and taking her in a covered van for several hours for
questioning, issued the following statement:
“The Sri Lanka Press Institute is deeply disturbed about
the re-appearance of the dreaded white van, when
journalist Krishni Ifham was bundled into a vehicle
outside her mother’s Wattala home and driven apparently
to Kandy by three persons....
SEE INSIDEGrand Show Tonight
A rarely scene before combination of local talent performing the
hits of the biggest legends of yester year will be unleashed at
the Waters Edge Grand Ballroom today (28)."The local talent will
come together for a one night only performance and the
presentation of the event will be done by YES FM.
According to the organisers of the show, the music will
transport the audience down memory lane, a time when the
singers were truly stars personified both onstage...
SEE INSIDE Defeat of LTTE – victory of one of Asia’s oldest democracies
“The end of the Sri Lankan conflict should be seen for what it
is; a victory of one of Asia’s oldest and most established
democracies over one of the great scourges of our time:
Terrorism.
“While 64 years after the end of the Second World War
the Allies continue to celebrate with great fanfare the
end of a war that lasted six years, Europeans now have
the nerve to accuse the Sri Lankan government of
engaging in “triumphalism” — this a bare month after
ending a war that lasted 25 years and inflicted great
suffering on Sri Lanka,” states...
SEE INSIDE Rs 130 million allocated
The government has allocated 130 million rupees for the
education of the 70,000 students living in IDP camps in the
Wanni, Vavuniya and Mannar districts, disclosed Deputy Minister
of Education Murugam Satchithanandan who is overlooking the
education sector in the IDP camps on the instructions given by
Senior Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapaksa.
Among these 70,000 students are A/level, O/Level and year five
scholarship students.
SEE INSIDE Extremist Muslim youth expected to surrender before crackdown
Batticaloa Police and the military have now received information
that more than 300 extremist Muslim armed youth operating in the
Eastern Province will surrender with all their sophisticated
weapons on or before July 2, Eastern Range (Central), DIG Edison
Gunatilleke said yesterday.
SEE INSIDE High prices blamed on Avara
Vegetable prices going up is “nothing unusual”, Director of the
Agrarian and Research Training Centre V.K. Nanayakkara said.
“The price is high in June and it has always been so. For the
last so many years this has been the case and prices will go
down by September,” explained Director Nanayakkara.
SEE INSIDE CCD unearths Tiger haul
A stock of tents donated by the NGO’s as tsunami relief and a
large haul of military items were unearthed by a special police
team led by SSP Vaas Gunawardene, Director of the Colombo Crime
Division(CCD) which were buried near Swarnam Base at Kadiraweli
on Wednesday (24) and Thursday(25).
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POLITICS |
Election time is here again!
 It is elections galore as the country comes to terms with the end of
the Eelam war and the latest contest up for grabs is the Uva provincial
council, elections which will be held on August 8, perhaps not
co-incidentally the same day on which polls are being held for the local
authorities in Jaffna and Vavuniya.
It is perhaps fair to pose the question as to whether any purpose
will be served by the Uva provincial poll, with the ruling United
Peoples’ Freedom Alliance (UPFA) likely to emerge winners by a clear and
handsome margin.
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Calls
for Presidential poll vault vetoed
President Mahinda Rajapaksa is thoroughly piqued by recent wild
speculations that he is planning to extend his term of office through a
Constitutional gimmick, rather than face a presidential election. These
speculations even went to the extent of one weekly newspaper last Sunday
carrying it as a news report.
Such a shameful act he had not even thought of,
considering the fact that his popularity with the
masses is at its zenith at present, and a victory at
any poll at this juncture is a foregone conclusion.
The President discussed the matter with his closest
ministers and finally, called on Information...
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Right of access Justice not charity
Not so long ago, a friend of mine was attending a function at a
five-star hotel in the city. Inevitably, as happens at such long
events, he needed to heed the call of nature. When he asked the
staff where the bathroom was, he was discretely handed two
plastic bottles; the bathroom in this lavish hotel could not
accommodate him in his wheelchair.
And, while my friend was busy figuring out just what he should
do with those bottles, my husband and I were busy wondering
which restaurant we could go to with some of our elderly
friends, whose previously agile legs did not move them about
quite like they used to. We were discovering there were very few
places where there was no risk of falling
down stairs or
tripping over broken pavements.
SEE
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 Approximately 15 years before the news of Prabhakaran’s sudden
death filtered through to Colombo on May 17 this year, and the
thunder of firecrackers echoed throughout the country, I had
bought 100 firecrackers, in wishful anticipation of this event.
Of course, no such thing happened then, and two years later, I
lit the crackers for some other more regular occasion before
they went stale.
In those days it was considered eccentric to anticipate such an
event and expect to celebrate it. At the time, Prabhakaran and
the LTTE were popularly considered invincible. Battles between
Sri Lanka’s Armed Forces...
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The World Champs are in town
Sri Lanka and Pakistan have always enjoyed good cricketing
relationships from the time when Sri Lanka was a non-Test
playing nation. The bond became that much stronger when the
Pakistan Cricket Board President Abdul Hafeez Kardar, deeply
impressed by the performance of the Sri Lankan team in the first
unofficial Test played at Lahore in 1974, volunteered to raise
the question of Test status for Sri Lanka at the International
Cricket Conference as it was known at the time.
SEE INSIDEAn issue of attribution of credit
 The
International Cricket Council’s (ICC) decision to approve the
use of video referrals to challenge umpires decisions will not
only be welcomed by players and officials connected with the
game but also by one individual in Sri Lanka who has been
staking a claim to be recognised as its originator.
Although the TV umpire referrals will not be in force during
the upcoming Ashes series between England and Australia it will
be put in place by October this year.
The controversial review system lets players request
that umpire’s decisions are reviewed by a third official
using TV pictures. It was given a trial in four Test
series starting with the Sri Lanka-India series played
in Sri Lanka last year.
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INTERVIEWS |
Devolution of power within a unitary
state - Vitarana
 With the military defeat of the LTTE now the debate over
devolution of power has taken a different turn. The All Party
Representative Committee (APRC) though it was not literally an
all party body due to the conspicuous absence of some of the
main political parties in it has already come up with some
proposals aimed at a political solution to the north and east.
The Chairman of the All Party Representatives Committee (APRC)
and Minister of Science and Technology...
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INSIDEAPRC does not represent all parties
-Warnasingha
Spokesperson for
the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), Nishantha Sri Warnasingha
refutes the notion of ‘all party representative committee’ and
reiterates his party’s position that the unit of power
devolution should ideally be at the local government level.
Q: What is the view of the Jathika Hela Urumaya as a
constituent party of the United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA)
on the All Party Representatives Committee (APRC)?
A: All though it’s called All Party Representatives
Committee or APRC it does not represent all parties. It does not
have main...
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No cause for panic – Says Dr. Peiris
 Q: The First Influenza A (H1N1) patient came from Australia
and on Friday three others from England and USA were found with
the flu. Does this mean that our preparations at the airport to
screen people with the flu is inadequate?
A: There are thermal scanners not only at Bandaraniake
International Airport but in any airport in the world. The thing
is that a thermal scanner can only identify only if a person has
fever at that particular moment. But the thing is that thermal
scanners cannot identify a person during his/her
incubation
period.
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