The Government is to request foreign diplomatic missions to refrain from issuing visas to doctors in state service who are trying to leave the country for employment purposes without approved leave, Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella said.
Minister Rambukwella was responding to a question raised by Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa in Parliament about some 500 doctors leaving the country this year.
He said that among other steps to discourage medical staff leaving the country without authorization, the airport will also be informed not to allow them the country if they do not have approved leave.
He said that steps also be taken to blacklist doctors who leave the country without approved leave.
Too little too late - "Closing the stble doors after the horses havebolted"
A British national had been arrested over attempting to smuggle in the largest haul of kush( drugs) from Thailand, customs said.
Popular grade five tuition teacher, Hayeshika Fernando wanted over assaulting a 21 year old youth was granted bail today after she surrendered to courts.
The Government of Sri Lanka maintains that the allegation of genocide during the final phase of the conflict in Sri Lanka is unsubstantiated by any credible authority, either nationally or internationally, and is based on misleading information. Sri Lanka firmly rejects this false narrative and believes it has been propagated primarily for electoral gains within Canada.
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