Skullls, bones found in Ma Oya

Sunday, 26 January 2014 

Three human skulls and parts of skeletons had been found floating along Ma-Oya near Aswattha area in Polgahawela yesterday evening, the Police said.

The Police said they recovered the remains following, a resident informing them.

Police said that a magisterial inquiry was being held at the site.

The Polgahawela Police are conducting further investigations

Courtesy - Daily Mirror

Explanations called on spending public funds on foreign junket

 Sunday, 26 January 2014 

Explanations have been sought from 73 regional education officials by Southern Province Governor Kumari Balasuriya after they had defied an earlier order and went on a foreign junket at public expense.

Highly-placed officials at the Governor’s office have been quoted in the media saying that the group that included teachers and other education officials both male and female had gone to Malaysia and Singapore on January 7 and returned on Wednesday (22).

They have noted that the trip had cost about Rs. 20 million the monies were drawn from the Provincial Council Development Fund.

The Governor is angry that her order was defied.

According to reports, the initial plan was to send a dozen schoolchildren who fared well at the recent Grade Five Scholarship and Advanced Level
Examinations on a fun tour of Singapore and Malaysia but this was abruptly stopped by Balasuriya when it was revealed that some 138 education officials had also forced their way in to the trip.

The education officials who had gone on the tour had included even typists and other clerical hands attached to the education sector of the Southern Province.