Trouble erupts on eve of Kaushalya’s appointment as new head Outgoing President of Bar Association Saliya Pieris, PC, yesterday (24) said that attempts were being made to intimidate him over the stand he took on a number of contentious issues including the appointment of the new IGP. Pieris said so in response to The Island […]
By Shamindra Ferdinando Director General on Trade Unions to the President Saman Ratnapriya said yesterday released full time for union work by respective trade unions and federations could continue to do so until their retirement.The former President of the Government Nurses Union said so when The Island sought his response to recent disclosure by General […]
Country Head (Sri Lanka and the Maldives), Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) Onalie Dissanayake asserted that the challenges caused due to the developments since eruption of covid-19 in 2020 underscored the role of marketing. Dissanayake briefly explained how the shrinking markets increased the corporate clients’ dependence on them as part of the overall measures to […]
NPP leader and MP Anura Kumara Dissanayake yesterday (24) raised in parliament blacklisting of three ex- military officers including retired Air Vice Marshal Sampath Thuyacontha.Raising a question under Standing Order 27/2, Dissanayake told Parliament that AVM Thuyacontha had been banned from entering any Air Force base and participating in any Air Force events. The MP […]
Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Tokyo Rodney Perera met the Governor of the Bank of Japan (Japanese Central Bank) Haruhiko Kuroda, and exchanged thoughts and ideas on the world financial situation and the global economic outlook for 2023 as well as Sri Lanka’s debt restructuring process and the way forward for constructive support from Japan, sources […]