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Monday, June 22, 2009
EPDP co-ordinator for the Batticaloa district K. Arumailingam being the latest to join the bandwagon.
The trend of Tamil politicians getting SLFP membership continues, with EPDP co-ordinator for the Batticaloa district K. Arumailingam being the latest to join the bandwagon.
According to government sources, Mr. Arumailingam, who is also a member of the Batticaloa Municipal Council, has decided to join the SLFP along with Mayor Sivageetha Prabhakaran. They are expected to meet President Mahinda Rajapaksa next week.
Mr. Arumailingam, who acted as the district co-ordinator for EPDP leader Minister Douglas Devananda, has reportedly tendered his resignation from the party. He had earlier been a member of the North-East Provincial Council headed by Vartharajah Perumal.
Minister Vinayagamurthy Muralitharan was the first eastern politician to join the SLFP, the largest party of the ruling coalition. Along with him hundreds of TMVP members too obtained its membership. Political analysts say that the new political phenomenon was a result of the government mounting pressure on the minority parties to become a part of the SLFP.
TNA MP for the Wanni district, Sivanathan Kishore, has also expressed his support for the government’s development work in the Northern Province recently.
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Military is still running after Tiger leader Nagulan and Kuilan operating in Batticaloa and Trincomalee
Whilst search operations were going on in Colombo the military is still running after Tiger leader Nagulan and Kuilan operating in Batticaloa and Trincomalee along with a handful of Tiger cadres. Military officials believe that they have already moved into the civilian settlement in the East as intense search operations conducted by the Security Forces have made it difficult for them to operate in the jungles.
ACTED SRI LANKA - AREA COORDINATOR BATTICALOA
Department: Coordination
Position: Area CoP Position: Area Coordinator Batticaloa
Contract duration: 12 months
Location: Batticaloa, Sri Lanka
Starting Date Immediate
Moothoor IDPs relocated against their wish in Ki’liveddi
June 19th, 2009
Sri Lanka police forcibly took away 224 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Moothoor in Trincomalee district presently staying in Kirimuddi refugee camp in Batticaloa district, against their wish, to be relocated in Ki?liveddi in Trincomalee district, Tuesday noon, sources in Batticaloa said. UNHCR representatives, representatives of NGOs besides government officials were present during this incident, the sources added.
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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Brandix, a top Sri Lankan apparel maker, is planning to boost production at a factory built in Batticaloa
June 16, 2009 (LBO) - Brandix, a top Sri Lankan apparel maker, is planning to boost production at a factory built in Batticaloa, a former war-torn area in the east of the island where ex-female Tiger combatants are also working, an official said.
"Our current production is 20,000 pieces and we want to push it up to 50,000 pieces," Theodore Gunasekara, general manager, intimate apparels at Brandix Lanka said.
"Of the current workforce of 220 working at the factory, 95 percent are women.
"This includes some ex-combatants as well."
In May Sri Lanka said the Tamil Tiger leadership was wiped out in the last redoubt in the north east of the country following a two and a half year war.
Eastern Sri Lanka was re-taken from the Tigers in the early phases of the campaign and local elections had already been held in the area, with a breakaway Tiger leader winning the polls.
Gunasekara said currently the factory is making pocket denim pants and will achieve a target of 50,000 pieces by end September 2009.
Brandix has invested 250 million rupees on the factory.
"The factory was made under a corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiative," said Gunasekara.
"We want to see if we can commercialize this CSR initiative."
source:http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/fullstory.php?nid=1065451113
Monday, June 15, 2009
Kattankudy sends 40 cooks to feed IDPs
Forty Muslim cooks from Kattankudy accompanied by two members of the Kattankudy Mosque Federation left Kattankudy for the Wanni yesterday morning in a bus, a pick up and a lorry full of cooking utensils to prepare meals for the people rescued by the security forces from the clutches of the LTTE in the North.
Secretary of the Kattankudy Mosque Federation M. Sabeel, said that the Federation is sending these cooks to the Wanni at their own expense on the request of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, conveyed through the Chief Presidential Advisor and MP Basil Rajapaksa. The Kattankudy Mosque Federation also sent relief goods to the Wanni IDPs some time ago.
Meanwhile it is said the Muslims displaced from the North by the LTTE in October 1990 are also collecting relief items to be given to the war victims in government controlled areas.
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