Speaker Karu Jayasuriya temporarily suspended Parliament sittings a short while ago to hold a Party Leaders’ Meeting.
By Sandun Jayawardana
Speaker Karu Jayasuriya temporarily suspended Parliament sittings a short while ago to hold a Party Leaders’ Meeting.
The Speaker suspended the sittings after Opposition MPs protested against a statement he made this morning in response to criticisms levelled by President Maithripala Sirisena in Parliament yesterday regarding the conduct of the Constitutional Council (CC) when appointing judges.
President Sirisena claimed that the CC had rejected 12 names he had sent to be appointed as judges.
However, Speaker Karu Jayasuriya, responding to the President’s statement yesterday, rejected the President’s allegations.
A Sri Lankan man was apprehended at Suvarnabhumi airport for attempting to smuggle wildlife out of the country after three ball pythons were found hidden in his underwear, the Bangkok post reported.
The UK government has unveiled a package of reforms to simplify imports from developing countries which allows for more garments manufactured in Sri Lanka to enter the UK tariff-free.
Read these and more on tomorrow’s edition of the Sunday Times
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