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Record number of students visit Parliament yesterday

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The highest number of school students ever to visit Parliament was reported yesterday, Serjeant-at Arms Narendra Fernando said.

Accordingly, he said permission had been given to over 5,000 students from 32 schools to visit Parliament.

He further added that in comparison with Parliaments in other countries, this many number of students visiting Sri Lankan Parliament in one day could be a record.

More than 25,000 students representing schools located in different parts of the country have visited to observe Parliamentary debates after the Public Gallery was reopened from September 19.

He said that necessary steps are being taken to provide a free glass of milk to the school students who visit Parliament from January 2023.

Mr. Fernando said that this is a commendable act conducted according to a decision taken by the Committee on Parliamentary Business chaired by the Speaker and with the blessings of all the party leaders including the Leader of the House, Chief Government Whip and the Leader of the Opposition.

The Serjeant-at Arms also said that it should be specially highlighted that President Ranil Wickremesinghe in his capacity as the Minister of Finance, has decided to provide the necessary funds for this purpose from the Treasury without any hesitation.

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2nd day of talks between the President & IMF

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President Anura Kumara Dissanayake engaged in a discussion with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at the Presidential Secretariat today (Oct.  04), marking the second day of talks with the President.

Director of the IMF’s Asia Pacific Department Krishna Srinivasan, Senior Mission Chief Dr. Peter Breuer, along with other senior IMF representatives and the Sri Lankan delegation attended the discussions.

President Dissanayake aims to achieve the objectives of the program in partnership with the IMF, seeking alternative approaches that will alleviate the burden on the citizens.

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Youtuber arrested at BMICH

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Popular Youtuber – Kalpa Gunaratne has been arrested yesterday (Oct. 03) at the Colombo International Bookfair at the BMICH.
The arrest had followed a security officer assaulting a young man at the bookfair.

Mr. Guneratne had opposed the physical assault and had started to video record the incident after it had continued.

Upon the arrival of CI Neomal who is in charge of the security at BMICH, the security personnel had told that Mr. Guneratne’s recording had caused a scene.

After taking into possession two old media IDs, Mr. Guneratne was taken to the Cinnamon Gardens police saying he had no valid media and was subsequently charged with breaching public order.

He was kept behind bars for around 03 hours before lawyers of the Media Law Forum had secured police bail.

However, since no mention had been made of the assault, the assaulted youth himself had gone to the police and made a complaint.

It is reported that he had suffered injuries to his head from the incident.

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One way rule at Galle Fort,  scrapped

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The traffic committee of the Galle Municipal Council has decided to scrap the one-way traffic rule at Galle Fort.

The committee says that the decision was taken amid rising public annoyance at the one-way traffic rule which had caused them much convenience.

Accordingly, vehicles are permitted to enter and exit from both the old and main gates from today onwards.

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