Leaking information, a qualification for promotion at SLBC
- Friday, 11 July 2014
After being accused of leaking tender and other confidential documents of the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation to outsiders and given a punishment transfer from the Sports Division to the Cassettes Division, the notorious Harendra Liyanage has now been given a transfer. According to reports, he has been appointed acting controller of the Publications Division.
SLBC employees say that this promotion has been granted with the mediation of two top officials, one a female, of the institution and on political considerations.
Heaving a sigh of relief after his transfer, employees now wonder as to whether leaking confidential information has become a qualification for promotion at SLBC.
This man had once been a monk at a temple in Tangalle and arrived at SLBC in the 1990s to do a painting job during a renovation of its buildings.
Later, he had obtained a typist’s position without any qualification, but by way of using political affiliations and doing dirty work of top officials. After leaking confidential information of the institution, he has now secured a promotion, which is just one example of the low depth the home of broadcasting has fallen to, employees point out.
Gnanasara, rejected by the West, gets Australian visa!
- Friday, 11 July 2014
- General
Bodu Bala Sena general secretary Galagodaatte Gnanasara Thera has been given visa to tour Australia, say BBS sources.
By doing so, the Australian government has totally disregarded precedents given by the European Union and the US to cancel his visa immediately.
Accordingly, Gnanasara Thera is due to visit several Australian cities at the end of next month.
Early this year, the French embassy rejected his visa application, practically denying him permission to enter any European Union country. Gnanasara Thera has gone to the French embassy and told its officials that it was unfair to reject visa for him as the US has given him visa to travel to that country for five years. The officials have turned him back, saying that just because he has US visa, that does not make him entitled to obtain visa for the EU.
As matters stand thus, it is surprising that the Australian government has given him visa to set foot on its soil.
