The Public Debt Management Bill was passed in parliament today (June 7).
State Minister of Finance Shehan Semasinghe on his ‘X’ account wrote that the bill was “to provide for Public debt Management including the authorization to borrow, to issue and to service public debt for the Government and issuing guarantees, on-lending, enter into suppliers' credit and financial lease agreements for the establishment of the Public Debt Management Office and for matters.”
My memory takes me back to 1979, to a moment etched in time when a strikingly tall and impeccably dressed military officer, a Master in charge of Cadeting at Prince of Wales College commanding a guard of honour presented to President J.R. Jayawardene by the cadets of 3CCC, consisted of Ananda, Nalanda and Prince of Wales Cadet platoons at the Prince of Wales College grounds.
An American national, who had been staying in Sri Lanka for nearly ten months without a valid visa while using a Sinhala name under his American passport, was arrested by the Tourist Police of the Kandy.
Read this week’s Sunday Times for your interesting articles including the ’’5th Column.’’
The only orangutan held at the Dehiwala National Zoological gardens had passed away yesterday.
The Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena Organisation Ven Galagodaatte Ganasara Thera was today imprisoned for the third time.
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