OTHER NEWS "Holistic" approach to waste management SANASA DEVELOPMENT BANK MAINTAINS ITS GROWTH MOMENTUM Colombo stocks slide on negative judgment on JKH CCC AGM – Jayampathy takes over    Advertisement Print Version | Email to friend East PC polls, most corrupt in history - UNP 10-05-2008 Polls for the Eastern Provincial Council will go down in the country\'s election history as the most corrupt of its kind, the United National Party has said. Irrespective of the outcome, the UNP will go to courts against the election, the party\'s General Secretary Tissa Attanayake said in a statement. All three districts to the election experienced massive vote rigging and intimidation of voters, but the law enforcement authorities failed to take any preventive action, he said. The Pillayan-led TMVP, as well as several government ministers and their gangs were responsible for unleashing the terror and the malpractices. Ministers Risath Bathiudeen and K.A. Baiz had terrorized Trincomalee, while the Pillayan Group and other government gangs stuffed ballot boxes and expelled voters from polling centre, Mr. Attanayake alleged. UNP MPs Ravi Karunanayake, Gayantha Karunatilake and Sarathchandra Rajakaruna had their vehicles attacked by armed groups, he said. In Dehiattakandiya, the son of speaker of parliament, Ujith Lokubandara was threatened at gunpoint by the governor of the Sabaragamuwa Province. The UNP General Secretary said further that a former police chief was responsible for the violence in Batticaloa, and that the ex-IGP had spent the previous night at a camp belonging to Pillayan. The UNP\'s polling agents had been driven out from 45 polling centres in Batticaloa, 28 in Ampara and eight in Trincomalee, he added. Print Version | Email to friend

"Holistic" approach to waste management Wed, 23-07-2008 13:00:00 Staff at the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) who manage a waste-management project in the southeastern Sri Lankan District of Ampara consider it a sign of success when town residents complain that their rubbish needs collecting. "When we started [the project] there was very little awareness of the negative aspects of improper disposal or of proper waste-management systems," Gary Morris-Iveson, UNOPS's programme manager for environmental restoration in Ampara, 350km east o... |FULL STORY|

SANASA DEVELOPMENT BANK MAINTAINS ITS GROWTH MOMENTUM Tue, 22-07-2008 20:00:00 The SANASA Development Bank (SDBL) has recorded yet another impressive performance for the first half year ending 30th June 2008. The Bank has recorded a pre-tax profit of Rs.124.5mn as against Rs.83.6mn for the corresponding period ending year 2007, which is an increase of 49%. Despite the adverse impact of the security and the economic conditions the bank was able to maintain its growth momentum said General Manager/CEO, Mr. Nimal Mamaduw... |FULL STORY|

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Colombo stocks slide on negative judgment on JKH Tue, 22-07-2008 09:00:00 John Keells Holdings’ (JKH) stocks slumped on Tuesday when trading opened in the Colombo bourse on the back of yesterday’s Supreme Court judgement of 2002 privatisation of Lanka Marine Services (LMS). There was anticipation of a similar (judgement) outcome in the dispute over the Sri Lanka Insurance Corporation (SLIC) privatisation also being contested in the Supreme Court, which could negatively impact on SLIC subsidiary Distilleries Corporation shares. “The LMS ruling ha... |FULL STORY|

CCC AGM – Jayampathy takes over Tue, 22-07-2008 09:00:00 Jayampathy Bandaranayake, chairman of Ceylon Tobacco Co (CTC), took over the reins as chairman of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce yesterday at the chamber’s annual general meeting. Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva, chief guest, was unable to attend as he was indisposed, chamber officials announced at the event. Anura Ekanayake, formerly from Unilever and now a business consultant, was elected Vice Chairman and Susantha Ratnayake, Chairman of John Keells Holdings (JKH) as Deputy Vice Ch... |FULL STORY|

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