Category: General Services

Feb. 20 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is staying tough on bird flu regulations, despite reports that an Indian man suspected to have died of avian influenza, was in fact killed by a bacterial infection. Indian health officials have ruled out bird flu in the death of an Indian man after laboratory tests on Sunday showed […]

Feb. 19 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is to go ahead with a controversial plan to tax imported film and television programs, which may result in the entertainment of minority language speakers of the island being heavily taxed to support programs produced in the majority language. -LBO Newsdesk: LBOEmail@ Imported movies would be taxed at the […]

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) – 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 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 […]