Namal acquires lands of displaced persons for a sports ground
2011-05-29
The stadium to be built in the Northern Province in accordance to a Sports Ministry directive to set up nine sports stadiums to cover the nine provinces in the country is to be built on lands acquired from those belonging to the displaced persons who have not yet been resettled, it is reported.
To protest Major General Haturusinghe
Defence Secretary gives reasons
2011-05-29
Defence Secretary Nandasena Gotabhaya Rajapksa has told several senior officials in the Defence Ministry that Jaffna commanding officer Major General Mahinda Haturusinghe was not aware that Majestic City Prabha was an LTTE informant. The Defence Secretary had made this statement with the aim of protecting one of his lackey’s Major General Haturusinghe.
Defence Secretary not pleased to let the Netherlands question KP
2011-05-29
Defence Secretary Nandasena Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has objected to the request by the Netherlands to give them permission to question former LTTE international wing head Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP and 13 other former LTTEers on collecting funds in the Netherlands, sources from Temple Trees said.
Chamal’s son to be made head of Mobitel
First Lady and Namal object
2011-05-29
Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa has asked the President to appoint board members of Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT), Shamindra Rajapaksa as the Chief Executive Officer of Mobitel since the term of the current CEO, Suren Abeysekera is to end on May 31.
Bandula orders editors not to write any article on Fonseka
2011-05-29
Lake House Chairman Bandula Padmakumara, who reaped much benefits during Sarath Fonseka’s tenure as Army Chief claiming to have been school friends, has issued a directive to all editors in Lake House not to publish Fonseka’s name in any article written about the war victory.
Defence Secretary not pleased to let the Netherlands question KP
2011-05-29
Defence Secretary Nandasena Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has objected to the request by the Netherlands to give them permission to question former LTTE international wing head Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP and 13 other former LTTEers on collecting funds in the Netherlands, sources from Temple Trees said.
Monies in the Police rewards fund that has been set up to encourage police officers engaged in successful investigations and raids, have gone missing, sources from the Police Department said.
Primer Minister DM says he has the same planetary positions as D.B. Wijetunge
2011-05-28
Prime Minister D.M. Jayaratne has told several of his close associates that he had the same planetary positions like that of the late President D.B. Wijetunge on May 1, 1993.
Major General Mahinda Haturusinghe had taken a monthly salary from the LTTE
2011-05-28
Former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka has said in his dock statement in the White Flag case that an investigation by the Terrorism Investigations Department (TID) had found that the current commanding officer of the Army in Jaffna, Major General Mahinda Haturusinghe had received a monthly payment of Rs. 30,000 from the LTTE.
President has sent Mervyn to Italy
To resolve dispute between Mervyn and his wife
2011-05-28
Minister Mervyn Silva’s wife, Mary Lucida is displeased after finding out first hand about a secret liaison between Mervyn and a pretty young actress. The President has personally intervened to resolve the dispute.
After making the Chief Justice A Minion Of The Government
Supremacy of the judiciary is to be taken under the Rajapaksas
– Fonseka tells the High Court
2011-05-28
Former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka making his dock statement on the 26th told the Colombo High Court that the Chief Justice would be made a minion of the government and the supremacy of the judiciary would be diminished by the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that is to be presented to parliament with the aim of bringing the judiciary under the Rajapaksas. He said the move would be the final nail in the coffin of democracy.
Tamil will always be Tamils; we don’t need Tamils to celebrate the war victory – Senior DIG Anura Senanayake
2011-05-27
Seven Tamil female police constables and 16 male constables have been summoned to Colombo to get them to participate in the police parade for the first time at the Victory Day celebrations organized to mark the second anniversary of the war victory.
Ridma film hall to be demolished
Film Corporation land to be given to Namal's CSC
2011-05-26
The President has decided to demolish the Ridma film hall and its surrounding buildings owned by the Film Corporation at Bauddhaloka Mawatha and to hand over the land to his eldest son parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa's Carlton Sports Club (CSC), a senior Film corporation official said.
Army commander tries to score points by uplifting the images of the President and Defence Secretary
2011-05-26
Senior officers of the Sri Lanka Army are amused by the fact that the current Army Chief, Lt. General Jagath Jayasuriya, whose only role during the war was to ensure the supply of food and fuel to the soldiers, was trying to make lecture to show that he was the commanding officer of the Wanni operation.
Several majors general in the Sri Lanka Army are at loggerheads after each of them have prepared speeches to be made at the “Defeating terrorism: The Sri Lankan experience” conference to show the important roles played by them at the war, military sources said.
Lasantha Wickrematunge’s assassination case
Request to officially record a statement from the former intelligence unit member in custody
2011-05-26
Attorney Shiral Lakthileka today requested the Mount Lavinia Magistrate’s Court to officially record the statement of former army intelligence member Kandegedara Piyawansa made in open court that a head in the defence establishment had asked him to implicate former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka in the assassination of the founding editor of The Sunday Leader, Lasantha Wickrematunge.
First Lady curses Basil
Reprimands the Rupavahini Chairman
2011-05-26
First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa had reprimanded the Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation Chairman Sarath Kongahage over the telephone for not giving adequate coverage to her official events.
Former heads of the three armed forces earned millions out of the war
2011-05-26
The revelation of the Rs. 620 million defrauded by Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa is the largest fraud to have been committed during Eelam War III and according to a senior army official; it is the fourth largest corruption to have taken place in Sri Lanka’s military history.
Actions against public properties act
UNP goes to court against Gota
2011-05-26
A group of lawyers affiliated to the UNP have decided to file a petition before courts seeking an order to be issued to the IGP to arrest Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa under the public properties act for purposely cheating the government of over Rs. 620 million, reliable sources said.
Gota had played out millions in military procurements during the war
– revealed in White Flag case
2011-05-26
Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa had played out Rs. 650 million when purchasing military equipment for the war, it has been revealed. The monies have been played out when purchasing four bullet proof vehicles and 130mm canon ammunition.
