Chief Justice 43, Chief guest of 39th BASL AGM?
Friday, 22 March 2013 
Unconfirmed reports say that 43th CJ of Sri Lanka - Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake is to attend as Chief Guest to the 39th AGM of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka and at the function where Attorney-at-Law Upul Jayasuriya will assume duties as the President of the BASL.
All political leaders have been invited to the event, which will be held at the Royal College auditorium on March 30.
It is tradition for the CJ to deliver the keynote address when a new BASL Chairman assumes duties.
The event will be followed by a cocktail event at the Cinnamon Grand for a select number of guests.
However, Dr. Bandaranayake is yet to officially confirm her participation of the cocktail event, reports say.
Courtesy - Mirror.lk
Personal mobile phones of security forces personnel registered
Friday, 22 March 2013It has been made compulsory to register the SIM cards of personal mobile phones used by police and security forces personnel.
The Defence Secretary has issued the directive for the personal mobile SIM cards to be registered with a division at the Defence Ministry.
The military personnel who gave us the information said the real reason for registering the personal mobile SIM cards is to record all conversations of telephone calls taken and received by the respective mobile phones.
These new regulations have been introduced to the security forces personnel after photographs backing war crimes charges were sent to the international media via mobile phones. The military personnel who spoke to us said this action was similar to shutting the stables once the horse had bolted.
“Namal Baby has made me a mahout” – Willie Gamage
Friday, 22 March 2013Botanical Gardens and Public Recreational Affairs Ministry Secretary Willie Gamage is seen these days traveling about the Mattala International Airport with a baby elephant, sources from the airport said.
When MP Namal Rajapaksa had tried to carry takes against Gamage to the President, the President had said, “Son, you are closely associating Indika Karunajeewa. In the same manner, it was Karunajeewa and Gamage who have been closely associated with me. I cannot chase him away just on a whim.” Angered by the President’s words, Namal had walked away from where the President was without saying a word.
Namal had met Gamage at W. Karunajeewa’s funeral recently. Seeing Gamage, Namal had lost his temper and said, “Ah old man, don’t you have nay plans on retiring any time soon?” The reason Namal’s witch hunt against Gamage is due to a story published in our website on January 1st about an attempt by Namal to extort billions from a graphite mine. Namal believes that the details for the story were given by Gamage.
Since he would be a constant target for Namal if he stayed in Colombo, Gamage has now shifted to Mattala with a baby elephant.
