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If GMOA demands are met:
The Ceylon Teachers Union is all set to initiate legal action if the government
bows down to demands made by the Government Medical Officers Union (GMOA)
concerning the allocation of schools for children of transferred GMOA members.
According to the Secretary of the Ceylon Teachers Union, Joseph Stalin, the
union will take legal action against any such decision made by the Ministry of
Education to grant schools requested by the GMOA in violation of the rights of
other students. ¨Bowing down to such demands is not only unfair on other
students but it also violates government circulars which prevents such admission
to schools,” he said, adding that the union has made a decision to seek help
from the courts to prevent it.
The leader of the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), Ven. Dr. Omalpe Sobitha Thera says
he resigned from the party’s leadership yesterday. Addressing the 13th National
Convention of JHU he said that the decision was solely to make way for a new
leader.
HIV tests will be mandatory for all State sector employees in due course
according to the Minister of Health, Nutrition and Indigenous Medicine, Rajitha
Senaratne.
“We have decided to introduce the test to all State sector employees. But there
so many details that need to be gone through before we can go ahead with it. We
also have to mobilize the people and the Director General is attending to it,”
he said.
The Sri Lanka’s UN peacekeeping contingent to Mali has been slashed because of
an administrative delay in passing funds to obtain ammunition, inside sources
said. Initially a battalion of 800 soldiers and officers were to be sent to the
West African country
as peacekeeping forces by
the UN.
Bid to remove LTTE from EU’s terrorist list:
The Sri Lankan Mission in Brussels is closely monitoring developments in the EU
Court of Justice where there is a fresh bid to remove the LTTE from the EU’s
list of designated terrorist organisations.
The first report of the Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) of the eight
Parliament includes, comparatively, the largest number of investigations
conducted within the three months from January 9 to April 7, 2016 with 41
investigations pertaining to 38 State institutions summoned before the Committee
on account of the Reports of the Auditor General issued in respect of the years
2005 to 2013.
Hundreds of party supporters and activists of a coalition of northern Tamil
political parties and social action groups marched in Jaffna yesterday morning
voicing several demands related to some immediate social problems and the
long-term settlement of the ethnic issue. |
President Maithripala Sirisena is in Thailand making a three-day official visit and attending the second Asia Cooperation Dialogue Summit. The Dialogue Summit that brings together 34 nations in the Asian region takes place from October 8 -10 in Bangkok under the theme "One Asia, Diverse Strength".
Official level discussions have commenced between Sri Lanka and Iran on reviving trade agreements that were signed between the two countries and will be put into operation soon after ironing out technicalities, Minister of Industry and Commerce, Rishad Bathiudeen said. 
Pakistan on Friday (September 30) officially postponed the 19th SAARC Summit scheduled to be held in Islamabad on November 9 and 10. A new set of dates for holding the Summit will be announced soon through the Chair of SAARC (Nepal), reports said. 
To avert a possible dengue outbreak in the next three months, when the number of mosquito breeding sites are likely to surge with the monsoon rains, the Dengue Control Unit of the Health Ministry will launch an island-wide Dengue Control Week starting on Tuesday, September 27 to Monday, October 3.
Sir Richard Jolly, former Deputy Executive Director, UNICEF, and Special Adviser to the Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (1996 to 2000), and Principal Coordinator of the widely-acclaimed Human Development Report will deliver a lecture on, “Development: Can Sri Lanka be a model for implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs)?” on September 28 at 5 pm at the BMICH Committee Room D, on the invitation of the Gamani Corea Foundation. 
Richmondite Charith Asalanka joined the elite band of school cricketers by winning the coveted Schoolboy Cricketer Of The Year 2016 title for the second year in succession emulating the feats of former Sri Lankan greats Arjuna Ranatunga, 1980/82' ( Ananda) Roshan Mahanama, 1983/84'(Nalanda) Thilan Samaraweera 1994/95' ( Ananda) 'Lahiru Peiris 2004/2005 (St.Peter's) and Bhanuka Rajapaksa 2010'2011 (Royal) who had also won the award twice .
Cricketing legend and former Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene will grace the occasion at the 38th Observer-Mobitel Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year awards night scheduled to take place at the Galadari Hotel on September 20. 
Stern action will be taken against traders who sell sugar above the controlled price of Rs. 95. Instructions have been given to the relevant authorities to launch island-wide search operations, a press communique from the Minister of Finance Ravi Karunanayake said. 
Refuting speculations, Power and Renewable Energy Minister Ranjith Siyambalapitiya said, no decision has been taken to impose power cuts on account of the current dry spell in the country. 
