LPBOA complains to Bribery Comm.
against time keepers
Enough is enough. Annual extortion by time
keepers, employed by the Passenger Transport Authorities
islandwide, now total to a grand Rs. 80 million and the Lanka
Private Bus Operators Association (LPBOA) has requested the
Commission to Investigate Bribery or Corruption for urgent
assistance.The LPBOA resorted to this as a last resort
unable to seek relief despite bringing this to the notice of
authorities on several occasions earlier.
Lanka Private Bus Owners Association (LPBOA) President
Gemunu Wijeratne (left) presents cash rewards to the
driver P. Gamage (centre) and the conductor Anura
Sampath (right) of the private bus that was blasted by a
bomb at Mount Lavinia last Saturday. The timely action
of the bus crew saved dozens of lives. The presentation
was made yesterday.
(Photo-Nimal Dayaratne)
NEWS
Govt.
to compensate owner of blasted bus
The owner of the ill fated private bus that was
totally damaged by the bomb explosion in Mount Lavinia last
Saturday would be paid compensation, Transport Minister Dallas
Alahapperuma has told the Lanka Private Bus Operators
Association.On the instructions of the Minister, the LPBOA
has already submitted the required documents to the Ministry of
Finance and the owner M. Premnath will be allowed to import a
brand new bus sans duty.
* Journalist Sampath Lakmal
killing FMM challenges CID comment
Commenting on the statement, made by DIG CID H.
W. Prathapasinghe to an English language newspaper on February
17, that journalist Sampath Lakmal, who was murdered in 2006,
was a paid military informant, the Free Media Movement said that
it finds it utterly incredible that it had taken 18 months for
the CID to make this revelation.
Forget it, Prabhakaran Kosovo
is independent. A single province has broken away from an
established state without prior agreement, and it has been
recognised by many of the most powerful countries in the world.
Such a thing has never happened before.
Some people have celebrated it as a major
victory for the right to self-determination, while others have
mourned what they fear is the beginning of the end for national
sovereignty, but everybody seems to agree that it sets a
precedent for secessionist movements elsewhere. Prabhakaran
might well be getting excited.
Sri Lanka
on show at worlds largest ICT exposition
Sri Lankan ICT industry will be represented at
the world’s largest ICT exposition – CeBIT 2008, with the
patronage of Sri Lanka Export Development Board.CeBIT ranks as the biggest and world’s No.1
trade show and a market place for ICT sector worldwide. It is
expected to have exhibitors from around 75 countries and
expected number of visitors were approx. 500,000 from all over
the world.
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) has stepped
in to support the Government’s efforts to develop the oil
exploration industry by hiring of competent staff who possess
hands-on experience in the oil exploration industry, a bank
official said. It has just advertised for petroleum economists,
geophysicists, petroleum geologists and petroleum risk analysts
for positions in the central bank’s middle management level.
Statements such as 'great challenge' and
'desperately need to win' have been very much part of Sri Lanka
captain Mahela Jayawardene's vocabulary during the Commonwealth
Bank Series. But Sri Lanka failed to put the words into
action once again, and crashed out of the tri-nation series in
the most humiliating fashion, losing their penultimate game of
the first round to India here in Hobart by seven wickets with
106 balls to spare on Tuesday.
INSIDE
India's
P Kumar was named Man of the Match 
