Gotabaya to leave for Myanmar on private visit
Former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is to leave for Myanmar tonight (16) on a 10-day private visit.
Former president Gotabaya Rajapaksa is to leave for Myanmar tonight (16) on a 10-day private visit.
The president is concerned by a Colombo-based foreign ambassador’s interference in the judiciary with regard to the local government polls, said government sources.
The government’s various attempts to postpone the local government polls may result in a people’s struggle similar to the one that expelled Gotabaya Rajapaksa from presidency, warned 43 Brigade leader Patali Champika Ranawaka.
A parliamentary select committee has approved handing over the International Arbitration Centre to the Colombo Port City.
Twenty officials from the United States led by a top diplomat met president Ranil Wickremesinghe this afternoon (15) and left the country immediately thereafter.
The appointment of new members to the election and other independent commissions is due to begin today (15), according to parliament sources.
A dispute over a pandal erected for Valentine’s Day led to a clash between students of Sri Jayewardenepura University in the early hours of this morning (15), police said.
Half of the postal ballot papers required for the local government polls had already been printed by the time work had been suspended, claimed a trade union in the Government Press.
Twenty officials from the United States led by a top diplomat arrived at Katunayake airport last evening (14) in two US Air Force Boeing C-17A Globemaster-III planes, Neth News reports.
The Election Commission (EC) says postal ballot papers cannot be issued tomorrow (15) for the March 09 local government polls.