The
Supreme Court yesterday, ruling in favour of a fundamental rights
violation appeal by Vasudeva Nanayakkara, nullified the sale of eight
acres of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority land to John Keels (Pvt.)Ltd in
August 2002.
In a judgment delivered yesterday the Court declared this land
transaction illegal and void. A presidential direction in this regard
was voided.
The Lanka Marine Service Limited was a subsidiary of the Ceylon
Petroleum Corporation, at the time of the transaction.
Pay hike or health?
JVP parliamentarian and Trade Union leader K. D. Lalkantha was at the
Colombo National Hospital yesterday (22) on a propaganda mission to
muster the support of the hospital employees to join another strike to
win the Rs.5000 wage hike demand. He said that the JVP affiliated
National Trade Union Centre would bring out the staff of the other
hospitals also out the next time.
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