The Excise Department has given approval to W.M. Mendis and Co Ltd. owned by Arjun Aloysius’s Perpetual Group to release liquor to the market.
A senior official of Excise Department said W.M.Mendis and Co ‘s liquor license was cancelled due to non-payment of taxes four years ago.
However following an agreement between both parties, permission has been granted for the production and distribution of liquor, he said.
The Department of National Zoological Gardens is readying enclosures to quarantine two large tortoises that were found stranded 15 kilometers westwards off Pitipana Negombo, today.
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