Wednesday’s strikes and protests powerfully indicate the determination of workers to fight the government’s social attacks. By contrast, the trade unions did everything they could limit to the industrial action.
The unions are attempting to hoodwink workers with demagogic denunciations of President Wickremesinghe and appeals for cosmetic changes to his government’s austerity measures.
Continuing his discussions with key Union Ministers of India on Sri Lanka’s economic recovery, High Commissioner Milinda Moragoda met with the Minister of Commerce and Industry Shri Piyush Goyal at the Vanijya Bhavan where the Ministry of Commerce and Industry is housed. Mechanisms relating to the expansion of bilateral trade, the ways to establish and promote rupee […]
The Colombo Additional Magistrate on Friday ordered the appointment of a five-member expert committee, comprising of Judicial Medical Officers, to prepare a report on the death of businessman, Dinesh Schaffter. The Additional Magistrate wanted the committee to look into Schaffter’s post-mortem report after his family members said there were contradictions in the report. CID also […]