Traditional Coconut oil producers called the Sri Lankan Government to stop importation of coconut products.
They called locals to use locally produced ekel brooms, coconut oil fiber roes and coconut charcoal produced locally.
A press conference held at Colombo they expressed their opposition against the government for allowing importers to bring coconut products.
Convener Traditional Coconut businessmen Association, Buddika de Silva said that people are consuming low quality imported coconut oil while the better quality coconut are sent overseas.
He added that the importers have even destroyed the good name of traditional coconut oil by importing and re exporting adulterated coconut oil.
“We had a good sale of ekel brooms locally that is too destroyed by importing plastic brooms; we can have a good local market and a foreign market and gain foreign remittance, but the government has to extend support,” he said.
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 Minister of Power, Kumara Jayakody, stated that in the future, internationally funded projects, such as power projects, will only be carried out through government-to-government (G2G) agreements and competitive procurement.
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.
Israel, a major player in the global diamond and jewellery trade, has invited Sri Lankan gem and jewellery businessmen and designers to collaborate with Israeli diamond traders.
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