A rush to secure positions as Chairpersons and Directors to Corporations, Statutory Organisations and State-owned companies has promoted the President to appoint a Committee to make the appointments.
Accordingly, a three-member Committee has been appointed to study the recommendations to be appointed to the post.
The President’s Secretary Saman Ekanayake has appointed to a circular on the directives.
This follows after observations were made that written requests have been made from the President from time to time to change positions of Chairman and director posts.
The Committee will be headed by Secretary to the President and will include Secretary to the Prime Minister and Secretary to the Cabinet.
Additional Secretary to the President Chaminda Kularatne will serve as the Secretary. The Ministry Secretaries have been told to give justifiable reasons and submit details of nominees for Chairpersons and Directors to Corporations, Statutory Organisations and State-owned companies.
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.
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.
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.
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