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Rs.100mn per month to maintain state ministers

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3 months ago

June 27, 2023

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Kalutara District Member of Parliament Lalith Ellawala made a proposal demanding the resignation of state ministers as more than Rs.100 million are spent per month for their maintenance.

He requested that this amount be allocated to supply medicines to the hospitals.

He expressed these views at a news briefing held in Kalutara yesterday (26) to shed light on the current situation in the country.

He said the tests carried out by the pet scanner at the Maharagama Apeksha Hospital have been stopped since last May. “Due to this, cancer patients have been severely affected. A cancer patient will spend Rs.300,000 to get this test done in a private hospital,” he said.

He also said that there are no enough medicines in the hospitals and most of the citizens are forced to skip meals.

“When the country is in this state, the ministers travel around the world as usual. Not only that, they are going on these fun rides together with other MPs and more staff members. They are wasting taxpayers’ money. These practices should be stopped immediately.”

“The state ministers are not doing any productive work, they simply enjoy the privileges. More than Rs.100 million are spent per month to maintain the state ministers. I urge the state ministers to resign and allocate those funds to the hospitals to purchase medicines.”

“I suggest that all the state ministers resign and only 20 Cabinet Ministers be selected from the 225 MPs and the rest of the MPs be appointed to the Select Committees in order to serve the country,” he said.

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Fmr. SDIG gets 5-yr. jail term

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1 hour ago

September 25, 2023

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The Ratnapura High Court has sentenced former Senior DIG Lalith Jayasinghe for five-year imprisonment for intimidating Kahawatte OIC not to arrest MP Premalal Jayasekera over a shooting incident.

Ratnapura High Court also ordered the convict to pay a fine of Rs. 20,000.

The shooting incident took place during the 2015 Presidential election campaign.

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Notice on issuing revenue licenses in WP

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5 hours ago

September 25, 2023

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The Department of Motor Traffic has decided to temporarily suspend the issuing of revenue licenses in the Western Province due to a system update.

According to the department, the services will be unavailable from this Wednesday (September 27) to next Monday (October 02).

The Motor Traffic Department said in a statement that vehicles of which revenue licenses are expiring from Tuesday, September 26 can be renewed until October 10, without fines.

Meanwhile, the online service for revenue licenses was temporarily suspended from midnight yesterday (September 24) and will remain so until Friday, October 06.

The department added that the temporary service suspension was due to an update on the system maintained by the Information and Communication Technology Agency of Sri Lanka.

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CID ordered to hand over Schaffter’s remains to family

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5 hours ago

September 25, 2023

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The Colombo Additional Magistrate has ordered the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) to hand over the remains of late businessman Dinesh Schaffter to his family as postmortem examinations have been concluded.

The specialist doctors’ committee appointed to compile a report on Schaffter’s death had informed the courts that the relevant investigation activities have been concluded, and that the remains of the late businessman can be released.

Furthermore, Additional Magistrate Rajindra Jayasuriya, also pointed out that the five-member expert committee headed by Prof. Asela Mendis, which was appointed by the court to compile a report on Schaffter’s death has informed the court that their judicial investigations have been completed.

Accordingly, the Additional Magistrate, who stated that the expert committee has requested the court to issue an order for the release of Schaffter’s remains, ordered the CID to hand over the body to his family under the supervision of Prof. Clifford Perera and Judicial Medical Officer P.R. Ruwanpura.

Later, the case was also ordered to be recalled on October 09, 2023.

(Source : adaderana.lk)