While there is a great deal of talk about getting more women to contest elections, there are questions about how serious the Government is about the welfare of women and children.
As Ampara District UPFA MP Sriyani Wijewickrema pointed out this week in Parliament, the allocations to the Women’s and Child Affairs Ministry for 2018 is a mere Rs 3 billion, one of the lowest. This amount is for the welfare of a group that makes up well over 50 percent of the country’s population, she pointed out.
Former Chairman of SriLankan Airlines, Nishantha Wickramasinghe, arrested on allegation of corruption by the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has been remanded until July 1 by the Colombo Magistrate court.
Leave Comments