By Alia
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Honest broker!
Norway's peace brokering efforts to facilitate talks between the Government and Tiger guerrillas has had its fallout on the local business community.Local companies dealing with the security forces are furious. Norwegian companies selling requirements of the military (through their local agents) have suddenly stopped such activity.
Local companies say the Norwegian Government has halted exports to the military. This is on the grounds that they are playing the role of facilitators.
At least in this instance, there is no doubt they have facilitated to the LTTE's advantage by depriving the military of what they need. Good honest brokering indeed !!
Another Wayamba
Some in uniform likenthe event to the conduct of the Wayamba polls.A senior man wanted some railway sleepers to be used as a protective barrier at a firing range used for training soldiers, the ones who are tough.
But the sleepers (on which the steel rails are placed on a rail track) ended up not in the firing range. Instead, it had found its way to an estate somewhere in Wayamba.
A probe was conducted but the results are yet to be known. But in the Wayamba polls, the results were known though how they came about is an open secret.
Camp with a difference
An officer is on the mat for not checking a subordinate during the construction of a new camp site.It is alleged the young officer rounded up some old artefacts from places of archaeological importance and placed them to decorate the camp.
Spooks cooped up
A top Police sleuth has received a new intelligence assignment.Gaya Pathikirikorale, DIG, until recently head of the Police Special Branch (reporting directly to the Inspector General of Police) has now been named Additional Director General of the Directorate of Foreign Intelligence (or DFI). Interestingly the DFI's office, somewhere in a key area of the City, has just two rooms-one for the Director and the other for all those who make up the DFI. It is from here they monitor the entire world for intelligence on Sri Lanka.
Uniformed luck
Spouses of some of Sri Lanka's envoys abroad do have more luck than the others.One such person now in the City is blessed with the luxury of a staff car from the services. That is not all. It is being chauffeured by a uniformed driver.
As one wag remarked, it is not only the husbands who get rewarded for their contribution or non-contribution. Even the wives !!!
No such luck for some others, particularly the career types. One spouse used an old Morris minor of a friend when she arrived in Sri Lanka some years ago.
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