Australian Minister for International Development and the Pacific Senator the Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, will visit Sri Lanka on April 4, local media reported. This will be the Minister’s first visit to Sri Lanka as Minister for International Development and the Pacific.
In Colombo, the Minister is to launch a new $15 million programme for over four years ‘Women in Work,’ which will co-operate with Sri Lankan businesses to create extra and better jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities for women.
The Minister will meet some of the 1,000 Sri Lankans who have received scholarships to study in Australia as well as students who have benefited from Australia’s support for Sri Lanka’s education system.
Popular grade five tuition teacher, Hayeshika Fernando wanted over assaulting a 21 year old youth was granted bail today after she surrendered to courts.
A British national had been arrested over attempting to smuggle in the largest haul of kush( drugs) from Thailand, customs said.
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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