Speaker endorses certificate on Consumer Affairs Authority Bill

Speaker discusses security issue with acting IGP

Speaker Karu Jayasuriya has had a discussion with acting Inspector General of Police (IGP) Pujith Jayasundara on the police security seen outside Parliament yesterday. The Speaker informed Parliament today that he had sought a clarification from the acting IGP based on an issue raised by the opposition yesterday. Jayasundara has told the Speaker that extra police security had been placed near Parliament following reports that a group of university students may attempt to enter Parliament durin

04 Nov, 2015

Tamil prisoners taken to court, re-remanded

A group of Tamil detainees were presented to Court today and most of them were re-remanded after they refused to accept an offer to undergo rehabilitation. The detainees, who call themselves ?political prisoners? but are not recognized as such by the Government, said that the court, Government and Tamil National Alliance will be held responsible for their lives if they are not freed unconditionally. Tamil National Alliance parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran told Parliament today that there are o

04 Nov, 2015

TNA wants to know where the gold is

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) today?questioned where the remaining gold belonging to civilians from the North is. The former Government had claimed that the gold stored in LTTE banks before the final stages of the war, had been recovered and handed back to its rightful owners. TNA Parliamentarian M.A Sumanthiran told Parliament that the gold which was returned by the former Government was given to the rightful owners. He said that the former Government had stored the gold in sealed packs

04 Nov, 2015