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Cardinal joins battle to save Sri Lanka s diverse wetlands
Development projects aided by corrupt officials threaten Muthurajawela marshland despite its protected status
The Muthurajawela wetlands are home to 102 species of birds. (Photo: Facebook)
Environmentalist Nuwan Saparamadhu has been advocating protection of the Muthurajawela wetlands, an area of natural beauty that supports Sri Lanka s fishing industry.
Activists and villagers are trying to protect the wetlands from a multi-use development project planned in the area.
Saparamadhu said the fishing industry is the main source of livelihood for people in the area and the two main canals along Muthurajawela are an integral part of that natural beauty.
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The 2021 budget has been defeated in several Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna-controlled local councils, underscoring a growing political crisis at grassroots level.
The Ampara Urban Council’s Budget vote ended up in a tie with six members voting for it and six against on December 4 during the first reading. But during the second reading, the council’s chairman, Jaminda Sugath who represents the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), made some amendments and declared that the budget had been duly passed, without going for a vote, despite the opposition’s demand that a vote be taken.
The SLPP’s biggest local council budget defeat came from the Haldummulla Pradeshiya Sabha where only three members of the 20-member council, voted in favor of the budget. Opposing the budget four SLPP members voted with the Opposition.
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Waiting for information: Scene outside Mahara Prison after the incident
The next of kin of inmates who were at the Mahara Prison during the November 29 catastrophe are on the lookout for their loved ones.
Most of them have not been able to trace their whereabouts. The result has been a collective effort by the Committee to Protect the Rights of Prisoners headed by Senaka Perera, Attorney-at-law.
This Committee has now obtained sworn affidavits from close relatives of inmates who were visiting the Mahara Prison until the incidents broke out there.
According to Edirisinghe Karunawathie (55) of Maligawatte, her son Kaluarachchige Suminda Madsanka has been imprisoned in Mahara Prison for nearly two years due to an ongoing case in the Wattala Magistrate’s Court. She has said that she has visited him on several occasions and that her son bore suspect number 1893.