A large percentage of Sri Lankan stock brokers polled on Monday morning in a quick Business Times survey believed the cabinet reshuffle won’t have a positive impact on the Colombo stock market.
Asked whether the cabinet reshuffle would impact the market, 40 per cent of the 20 brokers polled said NO while 33.3 per cent said YES. 26.6 per cent were UNDECIDED.
However to the second question, “will the exchange of portfolios of finance (to Mangala Samaraweera) and foreign affairs (to Ravi Karunanayake) boost the market”, 40 per cent said YES while 26.6 per cent said NO and 33.3 per cent were undecided. Nine ministers, all already serving as cabinet ministers, were given new portfolios by President Maithripala Sirisena in a long-awaited cabinet reshuffle. (Duruthu)-
Tamar Amitai, a 25-year-old Israeli tourist who went missing in Uppuveli, Trincomalee, was found safe after a three-day joint search operation today.
The Colombo High Court today (28) sentenced former parliamentarian Hirunika Premachandra to three years of Rigorous Imprisonment over charges of the involvement of an abduction.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe is firm about the President’s five-year tenure, the President’s Media Division (PMD) said.
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