Mr. Eric Walsh, the Canadian High Commissioner to Sri Lanka called on the leader of the National People’s Party (NPP), Anura Kumara Dissanayake, this morning (13) at the JVP head office.
The meeting was also attended by Vijitha Herath, National Executive Member of the NPP and Mr. Patrick Pickering, Political Attaché of the Canadian High Commission in Sri Lanka.
The two sides engaged in a thorough discussion of the current political and socioeconomic context in Sri Lanka as well as an exchange of opinions regarding the NPP’s goals to promote national unity.
Using this occasion, the High Commissioner also extended his well wishers to Anura Kumara Dissanayake on his impending trip to Canada to visit with Sri Lankan Canadian residents.
Public Security Minister Ananda Wijepala told Parliament today that the suspect in the rape of a lady doctor at the Anuradhapura teaching hospital has been identified as an army deserter and he will be apprehended shortly.
Police have arrested the suspect connected to the sexual assault on a female doctor at the Anuradhapura Teaching Hospital today morning in Galnewa.
The Dutch Public Prosecutor suspects two companies of paying bribes in the construction of hospitals in Sri Lanka, according to an investigation by FD, the Dutch financial newspaper.
The Government today tabled in the House the Report of the Commission to Inquiry into the Establishment and Maintenance of Unlawful Places of Detention and Torture Chambers in the Batalanda Housing Scheme.
Former President Ranil Wickremesinghe said today he wholly rejects the Batalanda Commission report and that it was appointed wholly with the intention slinging political mud at him.
Leader of the National People’s Party (NPP) and one time Propaganda Secretary of the JVP Wimal Weerawansa accused the Government of bringing back the “Batalanda Commission” for a media spectacle instead of a genuine concern for those who suffered during the 1988-1990 period.
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