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Sarath Palitha Fernando, Actg. Attorney General

The Solicitor General Sarath Palitha Fernando PC has been appointed Acting Attorney General with immediate effect.

Acting AG Fernando, an old boy of Royal College, Colombo led both the College English and Sinhala debating teams, also served as Student Chairman of the College English Literary Association and a General Secretary of the Sinhala Literary Association. He passed the Preliminary and Final Examinations of the Sri Lanka Law College with First Class Honours.

He was awarded the Prize for Commercial Law, for securing the highest marks at the Final Examination and the Hector Jayawardena Gold Medal for being first in the address to the Jury Contest in English.

 


Lakshmi Gunasekera, new Addl.Secretary

Ms Lakshmi Gunasekera has assumed duties as the Additional Secretary (Legal) of the Ministry of Justice.

Lakshmi was the Secretary to the Law Commission of Sri Lanka for the last twenty years and has been promoted as an Additional Secretary of the Ministry of Justice with immediate effect.

A past student of Visakha Vidyalaya, Colombo she was a House Captain and a senior prefect. In 1979 she took oaths as an Attorney-at-Law and in the same year joined the Law Commission as the Assistant Secretary. In 1972 she was promoted to the post of Secretary, Law Commission and she was also the Head of the Department.

 


Somaweera Chandrasiri remembered

The 41st death anniversary of former Deputy Cultural Affairs Minister Somaweera Chandrasiri will be held opposite Somaweera Chandrasiri statue, Piliyandala on July 11.

Ministers T.B. Ekanayake, Nimal Siripala de Silva, Dinesh Gunawardene, Vasudewa Nanayakkara, Western Province Governor Alavi Moulana and Parliamentarians J.R.P. Sooriyapperuma and Vidura Wickramanayaka will participate in the commemorative ceremony.The Somaweera Chandrasiri Foundation has also organised a medical clinic and several other religious programs at Viswakala Buddhist Centre, Piliyandala on July 10 to mark the event. As a people's representative of Moratuwa and Kesbewa electorates, Somaweera Chandrasiri was elected to the first Parliament of independent Sri Lanka. He was appointed Deputy Cultural Affairs Minister of the 1970 Samagi Peramunu Government.


ACWBC Founder's Day

The All Ceylon Women's Buddhist Congress (ACWBC), will conduct an all-night pirith ceremony at the Buddhist Congress premises on July 12, to commemorate the Founder's Day.


 

 

 

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