Category: General Services

Jan 16 (LBO) – Sri Lanka™s Registrar General™s Department will computerise its database of birth certificates issued since 1864, for easier access to public records. The country has no proper computerized birth certificate, death certificate and land deed database, with paper certificates still clogging up the system. The Registrar General of Sri Lanka Mr. L.K. […]

Feb 09 (LBO) The Sri Lanka signs MOU with Jordan to protect rights of migrant workers.Now our people that go to Jordan to work, will have the same rights and privileges as Jordanian workers, said the Minister of Labour Athauda Seneviratne, on Thursday. The three year MOU stipulates that work contracts for Sri Lankans be […]

Feb. 01 (LBO) – The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) says it will clear Colombo™s garbage pileup by end of the week. We have cleared most of the garbage by now. By this weekend we can clear up almost all of it, said Lalith Wickramaratne, Director Engineering, Solid Waste Management, CMC. The heavy rains and the […]

Jan 30(LBO) -Sri Lanka’s Department of Immigration and Emigration is trying to reduce the queue up for passports. Jan 30(LBO) -Sri Lanka’s Department of Immigration and Emigration is trying to reduce the queue up for passports. The national body issuing passports for Sri Lankans to legally leave the island said on Monday, that it will […]

Jan. 29 (LBR) – A Sri Lankan research organisation is deploying a satellite dependent early warning system to warn people about natural disasters like tsunamis and cyclones. Jan. 29 (LBR) – A Sri Lankan research organisation is deploying a satellite dependent early warning system to warn people about natural disasters like tsunamis and cyclones. Once […]

Jan. 29 (LBR) – Municipal councils are inconsiderate and residents are dumping garbage as the city struggles with managing large amounts of waste. Jan. 29 (LBR) – Municipal councils are inconsiderate and residents are dumping garbage as the city struggles with managing large amounts of waste. Dumping in wetlands and open fields has not only […]

Sri Lankan architects say post-tsunami reconstruction has ignored the coastal community’s social makeup and small neighbourhood lifestyles.Sri Lanka Institute of Architects President Rukshan Widyalankara says the island’s population live in a small neighbourhood setup, with each household establishing its “status” through the size, structure and contents of their homes. “Neighbourhoods thrive on the concept of […]

Jan 25 (LBO) – The University Grants Commission is talking to top US colleges for scholarships to send local students abroad for post graduate studies.Representatives of the North Dakota State University (NDSU) are in Colombo to draw up plans on how students enrolled at local universities can transfer to its College in the United States. […]

Sri Lankan marketers say consumers’ need to be enticed even when at the supermarket shelves, as a new initiative that will see television screens spread strategically around the shopping isles gets underway.Sri Lankan marketers say consumers’ need to be enticed even when at the supermarket shelves, as a new initiative that will see television screens […]

Reporters Without Borders – an international group promoting media freedom condemned Tuesday’s killing of a Sri Lankan Tamil journalist. Reporters Without Borders – an international group promoting media freedom condemned Tuesday’s killing of a Sri Lankan Tamil journalist. Subramaniyam Sugirdharajan, working for the Tamil-language daily Sudar Oli, was gunned down in Trincomalee after covering abuses […]

Jan 23 (LBO) -Nurses in Sri Lanka’s public health service are threatening trade union action, over a salary increase anomaly.Jan 23 (LBO) -Nurses in Sri Lanka’s public health service are threatening trade union action, over a salary increase anomaly. Nurses’ trade unions in government hospitals say salary increases for nurses are well below increase given […]

NGOs charged that lack of coordination by one central agency was slowing down reconstruction after the tsunami. NGOs charged that lack of coordination by one central agency was slowing down reconstruction after the tsunami. Although government set up TAFREN which is now called RADA to be the main body helping reconstruction it does not maintain […]