Ransom demanded from Jaffna businessmen arrested.

Monday , 06 May 2013

Police arrested a gang of three yesterday for threatening and demanding many lack of rupees from some businessmen located in Jaffna town. The arrest includes a person from the majority community and two youth’s natives of Jaffna.

The said Sinhala person has identified him to the businessmen that he is from the army and has demanded a large quantity of cash as ransom by threatening them.

The two natives from Jaffna are his accomplice. The unexpected arrest by the Jaffna Police of these three persons was on the complaints made by the businessmen.

The suspected persons were produced in courts and were ordered for remand prison.

Health Ministry duplicity!
By Chrishanthi Christopher2013-05-07 

While there is an acute shortage of drugs in government hospitals, and patients are directed to buy their drugs from private pharmacies, the Ministry of Health is said to be dragging its feet without finalizing the much needed National Drug Regulatory Policy. It is learnt that the Health Ministry, which had received approval for the Draft Policy from the Legal Draftsman's Office, is now entertaining certain reservations on the contents of the draft that has been finalized. Legal Draftsman, G.S.A.S. Silva, told Ceylon Today that appropriate laws had been drafted and the Policy had been forwarded to the Health Ministry so that it could be finalized. However, Silva revealed that officials of the Health Ministry have certain reservations on some of the clauses in the Policy. "The officials in the Health Ministry have certain reservations on the contents of the Policy and they have to iron out their concerns before the Policy is finalized," Silva said. He explained that the Legal Draftsman's office only looks into the legal aspects of a Policy. "We look into only the constitutionality of a document, and if everything is in order, we approve it," he said. However the Secretary to the Health Ministry, Dr. Nihal Jayatilake, said the ministry had sent the Policy with the necessary amendments back to the Legal Draftsman's office, and once the new additions are approved, they would take necessary action to ensure the Policy is passed in Parliament as soon as possible. "Once the Legal draftsman has approved the contents, the Attorney General has to also approve the Policy. Thereafter, it will be submitted to the Cabinet and then Gazetted in Parliament," he said.