Disaster Management Minister Anura Priyadharshana Yapa, who was in Cancun, Mexico, for a conference when torrential rains caused floods and landslides in Sri Lanka, is due to arrive in the country tomorrow.
According to flight details obtained by the Sunday Times, he left Mexico and arrived in New York on Monday. He will be in Dubai today and land in Sri Lanka tomorrow morning.
Minister Yapa posted a photograph on his Facebook account on May 24 from the 2017 Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction. In his speech the same day, he spoke of how Sri Lanka has put in place a programme to “minimise casualties, damage to infrastructure, and economic losses” in natural calamities.
Neither his absence nor his claims on disaster management sat well with public who are facing one of the worst natural calamities in recent times. According to the Disaster Management Centre’s update on the morning of May 30, at least 183 people are confirmed dead while a further 103 are missing and 112 are injured.
Mr. Ali Sabri Rahim, a Member of Parliament (MP) for Puttalam District whom an open warrant had been issued, attended a public ceremony at Al Aksha National School in Kalpitiya today (16) as the special guest of honor.
The Supreme Court today refused interim relief in an application filed by President’s Counsel Senaka Walgampaya seeking an Order from the Supreme Court compelling the President to appoint judges to fill the existing vacancies in the Court Of Appeal.
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All Ceylon Makkal Congress MP Ali Sabri Raheem had been arrested by Kalpitiya police after he surrendered to the police today morning.
Senior DIG Nilantha Jayawardena has been sent on compulsory leave pending disciplinary investigation over his failure to prevent the Easter Sunday bombings.
The 22nd amendment to the constitution dealing with the term of the President has been gazetted by order of President Ranil Wickremesinghe.
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