In recent months, the Government has been blamed for the sale of public ventures to foreign companies, with the latest controversy about plans to bring in a US company to carry out surveying.
The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) keeps protesting over plans to privatise public ventures or to sell them to foreign companies as it believes that such moves cause a loss of foreign exchange.But, their latest protest is not because the country was losing foreign exchange, but because the country was not making use of the best resources.
JVP Trade Union leader Namal Karunaratne is strongly objecting to plans to give the washing of hospital linen to a private company.
“We have the best persons to wash dirty linen. The Government has to look at Parliament. We have three good persons who do the job best.”
Of course, he is referring to a different type of dirty linen washing which the politicians do.
The number of Buddhist monks who were killed following the accident at the Na Uyana Theravada Buddhist Monastery (Na Uyana Aranya Senansenaya) in Pansiyagama, Melsiripura, Kurunegala currently stands at nine , with four injured, Minister of Buddhasasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs Prof. Hiniduma Sunil Senevi told Parliament this morning. He revealed that two of the injured Buddhist monks are being treated at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU
Several shops were damaged in a major fire that broke out in a shop on the third floor of a building at First Cross Street in Pettah, Colombo, today evening.
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, addressing the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, said that both inequality and poverty ought to be regarded as a worldwide catastrophe that requires urgent attention.
The opposition has renewed its demand for a long delayed forensic audit into the controversial e-visa deal, following the sentencing of former Controller General of Immigration, Harsha Ilukpitiya, for contempt of court.
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