Airport sources told the Sunday Island that their union leaders held a meeting in support of the Plant Quarantine Unit officials who feared victimization after stopping the release of 20 crates of roses from India brought to the country by businessman Thirukumar Nadesan. Plant quarantine officials have stopped the cargo consignment before release to the […]
Cops join IRD to raise revenue The police has launched a new collaboration with the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) to track down unexplained wealth and go after black money, a top official said.Under the new initiative, the police will inform the IRD of their on-going investigations into money laundering and financial scams so that tax […]
In a ground breaking development, a group of 58 garment workers from Sri Lanka have arrived in the Russian Federation to begin work in the garments industry in that country, Sri Lanka’s embassy in Moscow announced last week.A news release said the seamstresses arrived on Aug. 2 to start working in two well-known garments factories […]
ECONOMYNEXT –Half of Sri Lanka’s prisoners have been put behind bars for drug charges, State Minister for Justice and Prison Anuradha Jayarathne said. The total number of suspects and accused in prisons across the country is currently at 28,468. Out of this, 50.3 percent of the prisoners account for drug-related charges, Jayarathne told a media […]
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