Nalin Bandara grilled by CID

UK exporting arms to Sri Lanka

The UK government has approved more than 3,000 export licences for military sales to countries which it believes have questionable records on human rights including Sri Lanka. A BC report quoted the House of Commons Committees on Arms Export Controls as saying the value of the existing export licences to the 27 countries in question exceeds ?12bn. The chairman, Conservative MP Sir John Stanley, said he was astonished at the scale and value of the licences. Arms licences to Sri Lanka included pis

17 Jul, 2013

Army chief hails his role

Outgoing Army Commander General Jagath Jayasuriya says?he transformed the wartime Army to be that of a peacetime one and bringing it on par with the best in the world. Speaking to trrops at the Security Force Headquarters -Central (SFHQ-C) at Diyatalawa Jayasuriya said that tremendous efforts were made to bring back the professional standards of the Army, similar to the times of the 1970s after making most necessary structural changes to the organization. “The Army was brought back to its old pr

16 Jul, 2013

Sri Lankans arrested in UK

Five male illegal workers were detained by the UK Home Office Immigration Enforcement officers in Blackpool, England, following an operation at two restaurants in the area. Among the five were two Sri Lankan men aged 21 and 22 who had both overstayed their visas and were working illegally, the British High Commission in Colombo said today. All the men are currently detained pending their removal from the UK.?Both businesses will be served with a civil penalty notice for employing the illegal wor

16 Jul, 2013