An email and street poll jointly conducted by the Business Times and the Colombo-based Research Consultancy Bureau (RCB) on the controversial pension scheme found a majority of the respondents rejecting the scheme.
The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation’s (CPC) recent long term contract with the Singapore unit of UAE’s Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC) for the supply of gas oil has stirred a controversy, as it was the first time in the history of the CPC that it has awarded an oil supply contract without calling for tenders, CPC trade union officials said.
