Eminent Group of Lankans fire a battery of tough vaccination questions to DG, Health island.lk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from island.lk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Sri Lanka is in a conundrum. its present governance has approved China’s extra-jurisdictional Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Colombo Port City, right next to its commercial port. The Colombo Port City is a microcosm of how China has rapidly gained an economic foothold in many nations, swaddled within the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). SEZ or Overseas Economic and Commercial Cooperation Zones (OECCZ) are the
primum principium of
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according to Lin Yifu, Chief Economist and former Senior Vice President of the World Bank. It was Lin Yifu who convinced former Ethiopian President Meles Zenawi and submitted a report to Omar Guelleh, the President of Djibouti to follow the OECCZ model. Has all these Chinese OECCZ in Africa and elsewhere considered the host countries’ needs? The 20 zones already established (Refer to Table) raise a question on the degree of contribution to the host nation.
WNPS partners with HFS on scientific research for habitat conservation of SL s Knuckles World Heritage Site – The Island island.lk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from island.lk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Sri Lanka must recall retired doctors and nurses to work as the country’s health service is in danger of being overrun with the raging third wave of COVID-19, the main opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) said.
Speaking to reporters on Friday, SJB MP Harshana Rajakaruna said the government must look into the possibility of obtaining the services of retired medical staff in the state health sector on a temporary basis.
“The government has to invest money into such things. Instead, they’re spending millions on building gyms and expressways,” he said.
The MP was referring to a Rs 54-billion section of the Ratnapura expressway and a cabinet approved proposal to open 500 outdoors gyms in Sri Lanka at a cost of Rs 625 million.
Police sniffer dog ‘Rusi’ led sleuths to 35 grams of ‘ice’ (crystal methamphetamine) hidden inside a flat at the Maligawatte Housing Scheme occupied by a suspect arrested earlier.
Maligawatte police arrested a 32-year-old man with 150 grams of ‘ice’ and on questioning him found that he was occupying a flat on rent at the housing scheme.
The services of ‘Rusi’ was sought from the Slave Island police as a search on the suspect’s flat was conducted. The canine helped the police to find another 35 grams of the narcotic drug and Rs. 100,000 in cash.
Police said the seized drugs have a street value of around rupees one million.