Aluthgamage, former Sathosa Chairman barred from overseas travel

US to continue GSP for Lanka

Ron Kirk The United States has decided to continue with the GSP trade?benefits?for Sri Lanka, the US Embassy in Colombo said today. The Embassy said that United States Trade Representative (USTR) Ron Kirk announced yesterday that USTR has closed the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) country practice review on worker rights in Sri Lanka without any change to Sri Lanka?s GSP trade benefits. The action follows an interagency review of a petition filed by the AFL-CIO in 2008 alleging shortc

30 Jun, 2012

Karu calls on opposition to unite

UNP MP Karu Jayasuriya has called on the opposition to shed all differences and unite to defeat the executive presidential system. In a statement released today Jayasuriya said that the executive presidency has rendered parliament, the highest democratic institution in the land, redundant. He says laws are now being made and imagined at will and there is a state of terror that pervades all aspects of life in Sri Lanka, despite the defeat of the LTTE. ?The intimidation of the press, the harass

30 Jun, 2012

Cops arrest 53 over dengue

A special police operation was carried out in Colombo today to look for dengue mosquito breeding grounds and 53 people were subsequently arrested, the police media unit said. The police said that the special operation was carried out on the instructions of Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The police said that Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena had sought the assistance of the Defence Ministry to crackdown on dengue mosquito grounds. Following this request it was decided to carry out sp

01 Jul, 2012