Sunday, 10 Sep 2023
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by Disna Mudalige
While the Budget debate kept Parliament in full-flow throughout the week, a special side-line event ‘Celebrating Sri Lanka’s Changemakers’ recognised the achievements of 12 prominent Sri Lankan women.
The profiles of the women were showcased in the Public Entrance area of Parliament.
Speaker Karu Jayasuriya who was the Chief Guest at the event said it was a “Laudable...
It has been almost a year since the Auditor General presentad a damning report highlighting the unsatisfactory performance of the Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWC), but little has been done by the authorities to follow up on its recommendations.
In a special audit report in March last year, Auditor General Gamini Wijesinghe made several startling observations on...
Since December 2015, 16 sectoral oversight committees have been empowered to scrutinise draft laws and recommend changes to the country’s legal network, while watchdog committees COPE and COPA have strengthened parliament’s role as controller of the public purse
The Government made vital changes to the country’s legal framework based on a report by an oversight committee...
The Bar Reef in Kalpitiya, once a glorious coral reef is now in a feeble state with live coral cover down to about one percent. It was struck by a severe coral bleaching event last year, the worst after 1998, according to specialists in marine environment.
The major coral bleaching event was caused by the El Niño and La Niña effect in 2015-2016. A similar catastrophe...
The Government hopes to bring in new legislation in the first quarter of next year to manage the entire public debt, running to over Rs. 9 trillion at present, Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake said.
He said the public debts would be closely monitored and controlled on a day-to-day basis under the new legislation.
“Given the complexities and the scale of debt, the task...
by Disna Mudalige
Key legislation to give the Bribery Commission more teeth is before Parliament this week.The legislation is expected to clear a...
Two pieces of landmark legislation were enacted in Parliament last Wednesday to uplift living conditions and development indices...