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Assessing island’s security: Minister of Public Security, Law and Order and Acting Defence Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake inspects a Guard of Honour accorded to him by the Sri Lanka Navy at the Naval Headquarters on August 25 on the occasion of an official visit which took the Minister on board Israeli built Fast Missile Boats. Navy Commander Vice Admiral Daya Sandagiri and Western Area Commander Rear Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda are with the Minister. Pic by Sanjeeva Kellapotha

by Ranga Jayasuriya and Ananth Palakidnar

The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission Deputy Chief Hagrup Haukland is confident that there is no danger to the ceasefire and an eruption of war is not imminent. Making an assessment on the ground situation in the North and the East Haukland told
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TUs welcome amended formula

by Ananda Kannangara

Several leading mercantile sector trade unions yesterday welcomed the amended compensation formula which proposed a 48 months salary compensation package for private sector workers who face termination of employment in the event of sudden closure of their workplaces.
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Illegal firearms surrender:

Deadline tomorrow

by Anton Nonis

The deadline for the surrender of unlicensed firearms ends tomorrow, August 30, an official of the Public Security ministry said. About 2000 firearms were recovered since the government called for the surrender of weapons in March, 2004.
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