Roshan Fernando involved with the game of badminton for over a decade as an administrator was elected unanimously as President at the 34th Annual General Meeting of the Mercantile Badminton Association held recently at the Sinhalese Sports Club, Colombo 7.
An old boy of St. Peter’s College, Bambalapitiya Roshan excelled as a badminton player and held the post of Vice President of the Mercantile Badminton Association from 2010.
Office Bearers elected were:
Patron: Gamini Jayasuriya
Vice Patrons: Eraj Wijesinghe, Gerald De Saram, Ajith Wiyayasinghe and Sumith Guruge
President: Roshan Fernando
Vice Presidents: Sampath Happawana, Hereendra Jayasundera, Moditha Jayasekera, Mohan Fernando and Madura Jayesekera
Secretary: Dinusha De Costa
Asst. Secretary: Ruvini Ekanayake
Treasurer: Izmee Laxana
Asst. Treasurer: Thikshana Jayasuriya
Tournament Secretary: Chandana Nilantha
Asst. Tournament Secretary: Indika Gunasena
Executive Committee: Assetline Holdings PLC, Commercial Bank PLC, Dialog Axiata PLC, Douglas & Sons (Pvt) Ltd., D. Samson and Sons (Pvt) Ltd., HDDES Extracts (Pvt) Ltd., Nations Trust Bank, Seylan Bank PLC., SriLankan Airlines Ltd., Brandix Apparel Ltd., South Asia Gateway Terminal (Pvt) Ltd., Softlogics Holdings, Millennium Information Terminologies Ltd., Akbar Bros. Ltd., and Ansell Lanka Pvt Ltd.
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
Cabinet has approved the appointment of Commodore (retired) M.B.N.A. Premaratne of the Sri Lanka Navy, as the new Commissioner General of Excise.
Villagers in Nirmalapura, Daluwa, Norochcholai today staged a protest over an incident where a group of Navy officials and sailors had assaulted a resident in the area over night, Police said.
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