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The brother’s saga according to Mahinda
By Norman Palihawadana
Former Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday said that former President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had left the country for a medical checkup and had not fled.Rajapaksa said he couldn’t give a definite date about his younger brother’s return to the country but said the latter would certainly return to Sri Lanka in the near future.
When it was pointed out that the former President had fled the country after leaving for the safety of the Naval base, in Trincomalee, after the President’s House came under siege on July 9, when thousands of protesters stormed the place, Rajapaksa said those claims were baseless.
Rajapaksa first landed in the Maldives, after leaving the country in an SLAF aircraft, on July 13, and stayed in a luxury hotel in Male before flying to Singapore in a Saudi Arabian aircraft. Since then he has been staying in Singapore. Speculation is rife that he is planning to return to Sri Lanka. President Ranil Wickremesinghe has gone on record as saying that the time is not opportune for the former President’s return.
The Trump administration has begun firing hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employees, according to the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS) union, weeks after a fatal mid-air plane collision in Washington DC.
Several hundreds of the agency’s probationary workers – who have generally been in their positions for less than a year – received the news via email late on Friday night, a statement from PASS’s head, Alex Spero said.
It is a part of a cost-cutting drive, driven by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (Doge)., that aims to drastically cut the federal workforce.
Spero called the firings “shameful” and said they “will increase the workload and place new responsibilities on a workforce that is already stretched thin”.
The term of Acting President of the Court of Appeal Justice Mohammed Thahir Laffar has been extended.
Accordingly, Justice Mohammed Thahir Laffar took his oath before President Anura Kumara Disanayake at the Presidential Secretariat on Monday (17). Secretary to the President Dr. Nandika Sanath Kumanayake was also present on this occasion.
The Colombo High Court has served indictments against Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa.over alleged misappropriation of Rs. 70 million provided by Krrish Company for development of rugby in Sri Lanka.
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