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Dates
for talks after May 24
The date for peace talks will only be fixed after the D-Day
plus 90 days period specified in the Memorandum of Understanding
(MoU) for the reopening of the A-9 highway linking Jaffna
with the rest of the mainland, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe
said yesterday.
Tiger
fury over TNA statement
The LTTE has shown its anger at a TULF-TNA statement urging
Tamils to show restraint in inciting Tamil Nadu Chief Minister
Jayalalithaa Jeyaram and told the politicians to pressurise
the government to lift the ban on the guerrillas. At a meeting
summoned by the LTTE at Wanni, TNA parliamentarians were also
told they should campaign for the repealing of the Prevention
of Terrorism Act (PTA).
LTTE
warned and discharged
The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission has warned the LTTE against
harassing civilians in Batticaloa . The SLMM in a press release
said that "The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission in Batticaloa
is much concerned about the harassment to the members of the
public in the Batticaloa District by the LTTE."
Punctually
late CBK misses US Presidents
President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga admitted that
her requests to meet at least two US presidents at the White
House arrived in Washington DC too late - not once, but twice.
"I
wanted to pay a courtesy call, but I was told I had made the
request too late in the day," she told reporters at the
UN news conference.
Cycle
tour de Jaffna
Some 18 weeks after guns fell silent in the battlefield of
the north, domestic tourism is booming in a big way. It
is not just the southerners who are storming the Jaffna peninsula
and its environs to see life there after the bloody wars.
Showdown
on SriLankan deal
The controversial multi-million dollar deal between SriLankan
Airlines and Emirates will come up for review at the highest
level from tomorrow. A
team headed by the Emirates boss Tim Clark has flown here
on a trouble-shooting mission amidst demands by Sri Lankan
government leaders, especially Aviation Minister Tilak Marapana,
that the deal must be revised in Sri Lanka's favour.
Express
mode for ETF settlements
An express system whereby employees are able to obtain their
monies lying with the Employees Trust Fund (ETF) on a payment
of Rs. 1000 per claim has been introduced by the Board, ETF
Chairman Dinesh Weerakkody said yesterday.
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