Category: Industry
Support Vessel
Apr 08, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lankan ship builder Colombo Dockyard has laid the keel for the first of a series three Multipurpose Platform Supply Vessels for Singapore’s Greatship Global Offshore Services. The vessel is designed to have an accommodation area for 50 persons. The vessel, scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 2012, […]
Sri Lanka cricket needs clean-up: Bayliss
April 7, 2011 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s outgoing coach Trevor Bayliss on Thursday said the country needed a strong and stable cricket administration to allow players to focus only on the game and not be distracted by politics. “On the field, we’ve done pretty well for past 18 months,” Bayliss said in an interview with […]
Sri Lanka, UK flights to increase
Apr 07, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka is to sign an air services agreement with the United Kingdom enabling increased flights between the two countries, a government statement said. The air services agreement would enable the frequency entitlement to be increased to 21 flights a week from 14 today between the two countries. The increased […]
Tax Banditry
Apr 07, 2010 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s people are paying tens of billions of rupees to give state jobs to unemployable graduates from state universities where they have also studied at public cost, an official said. Sri Lanka has about 400,000 sitting for university qualifications exams and each year about 20,000 enter universities, and some […]
Safe Land
Apr 07, 2011 (LBO) – Australia has given 480 million rupees to clear land mines from Sri Lanka’s war torn north and speed up the re-settlement of displaced people and farming, the Australian embassy in Colombo said. Though demining in progressing fast, about 506 square kilometres remain to be cleared. Australia had already given 1.4 […]
‘s Muralitharan clears British visa hurdle
April 6, 2011 (AFP) – Sri Lanka’s legendary spinner Muttiah Muralitharan, who was worried about Britain’s new visa regulations, has secured a work permit to play county cricket, his manager said Wednesday. Kushil Gunasekera said the British authorities had expedited his visa as he had to leave for India on Wednesday to play in the […]
Sri Lanka gets Stuart Law as new coach
April 6, 2011 (AFP) – Sri Lanka Cricket on Wednesday promoted assistant coach and former Australian batsman Stuart Law to guide the national team ahead of next month’s tour of England. “He will be the new interim coach,” a spokesman for Sri Lanka Cricket, the governing body of the sport in the island, said. Law […]
Sri Lanka vice-captain, selectors quit
April 6, 2011 (AFP) – Veteran batsman Mahela Jayawardene quit as vice-captain and a three-member selection committee also resigned en masse in a major shake-up in Sri Lankan cricket following the team’s World Cup defeat. “I think it’s time to move on, give the reins to someone younger in the team,” Jayawardene told AFP. The […]
Sri Lanka to strengthen airline passenger, investor protection
Apr 06, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka plans to introduce consumer protection laws and ratify international conventions that will better protect investors and ensure higher compensation for airline passengers, an official said. The convention safeguards claims of all parties in airline transactions and gives an assurance to investors to invest in the sector, Nimalsiri said. […]
Scribe Network
WASHINGTON, April 6, 2011 (AFP) – Facebook on Tuesday launched a media resource page to help journalists use the social network as a reporting tool and better connect with their audience. The “Journalists on Facebook” page is intended to be “an ongoing resource for the growing number of reporters using Facebook to find sources, interact […]
Transport Trouble
Apr 06, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s supply chain losses are the highest in the region with a poor road network and congestion resulting in transport delays and higher costs, an expert said. Kumarage, a former chairman of the national transport commission, said better transport policies and implementation were required apart from building better roads […]
Half Share
Apr 05, 2011 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s Laugfs Gas will get 50 percent of the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) produced by state-run Ceylon Petroleum Corporation, up from an earlier 30 percent on a presidential directive, the company said. The directive followed an April 04 meeting with the President attended by Treasury Secretary P B Jayasundera, […]