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SRI LANKA NEWS (APRIL 2022) Compiled by Victor Melder President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has issued the Extraordinary Gazette declaring a public emergency in Sri Lanka with effect from April 01, 2022. The Gazette has been issued considering the prevailing situation in the country and in the interests of public security, the protection of public order and the maintenance of supplies and services essential to the life of the community. President Gotabaya has issued the Gazette under the powers vested in him by Section 2 of the Public Security Ordinance (Chapter 40), as amended by Act. No. 8 of 1959. Law No. 6 of 1978 and Act, No.28 of 1988. (Daily Mirror Online, 1.4.2022) Sri Lanka will need about $3 billion in external assistance over the next six months to help restore supplies of essential items including fuel and medicine, Finance Minister Ali Sabry told Reuters yesterday. “It’s a Herculean task,” said ...

May 1, 2022 Posted by In Articles, Victor Melder Tagged , , , ,
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Good News From Jayam March 15, 2022 Pls Scroll Down 35 items   Happy Mardi Gras, New Orleans March 2022 President Rajapaksa Opens Sri Lanka’s Biggest Cement Factory by Lanwa President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa inaugurated the cement manufacturing facility of Lanwa Sanstha Cement Corporation Ltd., the largest cement factory in the country. They also laid the foundation stone for the proposed new steel factory. The investment for the new steel plant, which will be built on 250 acres of land is $400 million. The manufacturing process is scheduled to begin in late 2024.The investment for the cement factory, which commenced construction in March 2020, was $100 million. Covering an area of 63 acres, it is one of the largest cement factories in the South Asian region. The factory has an annual production capacity of 4 million metric tons and will supply 2.8 million metric tons to ...

Mar 11, 2022 Posted by In Articles, Jayam Rutnam Tagged , , , , , , , ,
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U.S. Ambassador Chung Presents Credentials to President Rajapaksa Source:lk.Usembassy COLOMBO, February 25:  Ambassador Julie J. Chung officially began her tenure as the U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka today after presenting her credentials to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.  The ceremony was held at the President’s official residence. “I am honored to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to Sri Lanka and I look forward to working with the government and the people of this country to strengthen democracy, increase prosperity, and ensure a healthy, connected, and secure future for all,” said Ambassador Chung. Ambassador Chung most recently served as the Acting Assistant Secretary in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs.  She also has extensive experience in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, including as the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Japan, Deputy Chief of Mission in Cambodia, and Economic Counselor in Thailand.  In addition, she has served at the U.S. embassies ...

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Good News From Jayam March 1, 2022 Pls Scroll Down 35 items   Spring Break in Los Angeles!   World Scout Day Marked under the Patronage of the President World Scout Day celebrations and the presentation of Presidential Scout Certificates were held under the patronage of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the Presidential Secretariat. The World Organization of the Scout Movement is the largest international voluntary organization for children with over 52 million children in 172 countries. The highest award a Scout can receive is the President’s Scout Medal. Video Attached! US Ambassador Designate to Sri Lanka, Her Excellency Julie Chung Meets For Virtual Engagement with the Sri Lankan American Communty Hosted by SLF International, USA “The Sri Lankan American Community had the privilege to meet with the United States Ambassador Designate to Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Her Excellency, Julie Chung, for a Virtual Engagement hosted by the Sri ...

Feb 26, 2022 Posted by In Articles, Jayam Rutnam Tagged , , , , , , ,
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Paving the way for renewable energy in Sri Lanka-By Nimal Wijesinghe Construction work on the Broadland hydro electricity project Source:Sundayobserver In accordance with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s policy manifesto “Vistas of prosperity and splendour”, the Government has been taking measures to accelerate the energy transition from thermal energy to full scale renewable energy. Sri Lanka anticipates to generate 70 percent from renewable energy sources by 2030 doubling our 35 percent share of renewables in power generation today. This requires an additional 11,000 MW of clean renewable energy capacity leading to an annual electricity generation of 21,000 GWh with an investment of 10 billion USD. With a target of realising 70 percent electricity generation from renewable energy resources there has been an impetus in the sustainable energy development programs in the country. The Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy Authority (SLSEA) under the State Ministry of Solar Power, Wind and Hydro Power Generation Projects ...

Feb 10, 2022 Posted by In Articles Tagged , ,
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Good News From Jayam January 15, 2022 Pls Scroll Down 35 items   President to Roll Out 1,000 New National Schools Establishment Program Bringing ‘Vistas of Prosperity’ to the forefront, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa will ceremoniously launch the 1,000 new national schools establishment program, covering all nine provinces. The inaugural ceremony of the 1,000 new national schools establishment program will be held at the Siyambalanduwa Maha Vidyalaya in Monaragala today at 10:30 a.m. auspicious time with the blessings of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and by the invitation of the Leader of the House of Parliament and Education Minister Dinesh Gunawardena, President’s Media Division said. Alliance Finance Secures USD 10 mn From Netherlands’ FMO Sri Lanka’s oldest finance company, Alliance Finance Company PLC (AFC), has received the second tranche of USD 5 million from the Dutch Entrepreneurial Development Bank (FMO) as part of a long-term financing facility of USD 10 million to ...

Jan 11, 2022 Posted by In Articles, Jayam Rutnam Tagged , , , , ,
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Sri Lanka gives $1 billion relief as anger grows over food costs Source:timesofindia.indiatimes.com COLOMBO: Sri Lanka unveiled a $1 billion relief package as President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s government seeks to temper growing public anger over the surging prices of essential food and medical items in a country that’s running out of foreign exchange to pay for imports. The government will raise civil servants salaries and pensions, remove some taxes on food and medicine and provide cash for its poorest citizens, a move critics say won’t help Sri Lanka’s state of finances and soaring inflation. The package accounts for 1.2% of gross domestic product, and will be re-allocated from the 3.9 trillion rupees budgeted to be spent in the whole of 2022, Rajapaksa’s brother and finance minister Basil Rajapaksa told a briefing in Colombo late Monday. There are no plans for new taxes, he added. The relief covers about 2 million people who are on ...

Jan 8, 2022 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , ,
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Good News From Jayam January 1, 2022 Pls Scroll Down 35 items “Ecological Floating Islands” to Purify Beira Lake… President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today released a thousand ecological floating islands to Beira Lake initiating the purifying process of the lake. Beira Lake has been polluted due to unauthorized urbanization and improper upgrading of sewerage infrastructure in Colombo. The “Ecological floating islands” method was implemented under the guidance of Chairman of Land Development Corporation, Retired Major General M.R.W. de Soyza.Ecologist Ranoshi Siripala points out that the experiment conducted for water purification by planting plants such as Cannas, Savandara and Heliconia using PVC pipes,bamboo and foam mattresses as floating supports has yielded successful results.   Raja Edirisuriya Takes Over as BOI Chairman Leading civil engineer and former Ambassador to Brazil, Raja Edirisuriya has been appointed Chairman of the Board of Investment by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.  Edirisuriya took up his appointment on 15 December. ...

Dec 25, 2021 Posted by In Articles, Jayam Rutnam Tagged , , , , , , , ,
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Is there a credible political alternative for Sri Lanka? by Tissa Jayatilaka Why do Sri Lankan voters elect and re-elect corrupt and discredited politicians?  This topic has been much talked about and commented on in newspapers and social media ever since Gotabaya Rajapaksa, in a rare moment of self-realisation, asked the above question from the voters of Sri Lanka. Why indeed? Two years before the president posed this question in November 2019, I asked myself the very same question when to my disbelief and dismay, 6.9 million voters elected Gotabaya Rajapaksa (GR) as executive president. For the purposes of this essay I consider GR to have been a politician since 2005 when, as a political appointee to the post of secretary to the ministry of defence, he wielded more power than any other politician except his older sibling, the then executive president. A few months after the presidential election, when ...

Dec 7, 2021 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , ,
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Counterfactual history Ratwatte’s drunken prison escapade: If it happened this way-by Ranga Jayasuriya Source:Dailymirror It has been more than six weeks since that epic moment when a ruling party politico who happened to be the state minister of prison reforms stormed the Anuradhapura Prison, and forced a group of Tamil inmates on their knees, threatening them at gunpoint. What happened since then was path defining.  It was the Prison Commissioner who broke the news to the public and ordered an investigation. A sycophantic pet poodle might have claimed ignorance and might even have defended the errant minister’s nightly visits. The Minister had a clean slate in the past did not matter. Surely the courts and even the party seniors might have been tougher if the errant politico had a history of violence, and had surprisingly gotten away with the alleged murder of an expat Rugby players and mass murder in ...

Oct 30, 2021 Posted by In Articles Tagged ,
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