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Women MPs meet former NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Source:Dailymirror Sri Lankan Women Parliamentarians’ Caucus of Sri Lanka who are on a study visit to New Zealand, met the former Prime Ministers of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern and Helen Clark recently, a statement from the parliamentary media division said. MPs  Dr. Sudarshini Fernandopulle,  Sitha Arambepola,  Rohini Kumari Wijeratne,   Pavithradevi Vanniarachchi,  Geetha Samanmalee Kumarasinghe,  Thalatha Athukorala,  Kokila Gunawardena,  Mudita Prishanthi,  Rajika Wickramasinghe,  Manjula Dissanayake,  (Dr.) Harini Amarasuriya as well as the Secretary General of Parliament Kushani Rohanadeera, Assistant Director (Administration) Indira Dissanayake and Media Manager of Parliament Nimmi Hathiyaldeniya were present on this occasion. ...

Aug 3, 2023 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , , , , , , , , , ,
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As a Sri Lankan New Zealander, I know my adopted country can find compassion amid terror-by Himali McInnes New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern and police commissioner Andrew Coster discuss the Auckland stabbing case. Photograph: Mark Mitchell/AP Source:Theguardian Itook some old, blunt kitchen knives to a second-hand shop a few months ago while decluttering. They politely declined the items, citing their policy against selling anything that could be used as a weapon. This shop’s policy now seems prescient. On a sunny spring afternoon, while West Auckland shoppers took pains to protect themselves against the coronavirus in a locked-down city, a terribly visible threat grabbed some sharp steel from the shelves, ran screaming down the aisles, and started stabbing random shoppers in the name of an invisible cloud of hate, alienation, radicalisation, distrust, anger, violence. Reports that the terrorist was a brown man, a Sri Lankan national twisted by Islamic State ideology, ignited a ...

Sep 7, 2021 Posted by In Articles Tagged , ,
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