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Sarath vs. Sarath continues

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By Saman Indrajith

Public Security Minister Rear Admiral (Retd) Dr. Sarath Weerasekara told Parliament on Friday that SJB MP Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka had made use of parliamentary privileges to sling mud at others.

Responding to certain allegations raised by Field Marshal Fonseka in Parliament on Thursday the Minister said Fonseka had criticised him in a very degrading manner and in Parliament on Thursday (09).

“Either he is afraid of me or he is jealous of me. We call this Inferiority complex, your honour, as this jealousy has been developed because I was been given the Ministry of Public Administration by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Sarath Fonseka was not given the Ministry when his party was in power,” the Minister said

The Minister said that his goal was to enable the people to live without fear.

Speaker of the Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardane said that he has advised the Secretary of Parliament to expunge certain parts of Thursday’s (09) and Friday’s (10) debate form Hansard.



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Cabinet nod to amend Community Based Correction Act No. 46 of 1999

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The Cabinet of Ministers has granted their approval to the proposal furnished by the Minister of Justice and National Integrity to instruct the Legal Draftsman to prepare the final draft bill for the amendment of the Community Based Correction Act including those proposed amendments.

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National policy on Archives and Document Management Act to be introduced

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The Cabinet of Ministers has granted approval to the proposal submitted by the Minister of Buddha Shasana, Religious and Cultural Affairs to pass the National policy on Archives and Document Management, and instruct the Legal Draftsman to formulate a draft bill to introduce the National Archives and Document Management Act examining the National Archives Law No. 48 of 1973 and the National Archives Act No. 30 of 1981.

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Cabinet nod to recruit 30,000 gradates and youth to fill essential vacancies in the government service

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Considering a proposal furnished by the Minister of Public Administration, Provincial Councils and Local Governments, the Cabinet of Ministers has decided that immediate actions should be taken by the relevant Ministry to call for applications as per the recruitment schemes prescribed under “the Programme to Recruit 30,000 Unemployed Graduates and Youth to the Government Service Proposed by the Budget 2025”.

An officials’ committee chaired by the Secretary to the Prime Minister has been appointed to present recommendations to make essential requirements, by reviewing staffs of various institutions in the state sector once again. Based on the recommendations furnished by the said Committee, As as at now the Cabinet of Ministers has granted approval  for 18,853 new requirements to the state service.

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