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Posted on December 13th, 2020
MALINDA SENEVIRATNE
THE WEEK THAT WAS
The third reading of the Budget 2021 was passed in parliament with amendments on Thursday with a majority of 97 votes. a short while ago, 151 voting in favor while 54 voted against it. It was in a sense a reaffirming of the two-thirds majority that the ruling party, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), acquired to get the 20th Amendment passed. It wasn’t unexpected.
The news of the week was however dominated by issues related to Covid-19. First let’s consider the sober part of things (numbers and measures) before we get to the circus activities.
for you. reporter: residents watched from a distance as giant flames engulfed their homes friday night. silhouetted by fierce pillars of smoke that swept through the slum in bangladesh s capital city of dhaka. 200 huts were destroyed in the fire. the local fire inspector said leaving at least 10,000 people homeless in just a matter of hours. translator: everyone started running out. some people were bathing. they ran out wet. some left all their belongings and ran to safety. it was chaos. so i lived here for more than 30 years, and i have lost everything. i don t know where i will go and live. i lost everything, and now i am homeless and don t know what to do. officials say the majority of the residents earn low wages from working in garment factories nearby. and many were celebrating the muslim festival of eid when the fire broke out.
money from abroad we need that money we want ronald to be brought to justice but compensation was only one issue to arise after the disaster the accident also put a spotlight on poor safety conditions in garment factories across the country under an agreement known simply as the accord a team of international safety inspectors were brought in to monitor standards in bangladeshi garment factories when their 5 year term was up last year the government asked them to leave that sparked an outcry with critics maintaining that the government was not equipped to carry out its own inspections accord does not think that this government is fully prepared at this time. to adequately regulate safety and we re working intensively with and in support of them so that they can achieve that in the quickest time possible the ruling from bangladesh s top court means the accord that inspections will continue for another year the hope is that this will help avoid another disaster like that
put a spotlight on poor safety conditions in garment factories across the country under an agreement known simply as the accords a team of international safety inspectors were brought in to monitor standards in bangladeshi garment factories when their 5 year term was up last year the government asked them to leave that sparked an outcry with critics maintaining that the government was not equipped to carry out its own inspections the accord does not think that this government entity is is fully prepared at this time. to adequately regulate safety and we are working intensively with and in support of them so that they can achieve that in the quickest time possible the ruling from bangladesh s top court means the accord that inspections will continue for another year the hope is that this will help avoid another disaster like that which turned for becomes life upside down. and that s it for me in the business
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