Malaysia On Alert Over Prabakaren

Malaysian Police Chief Musa Hassen To Day Ordered a Nationwide Alert on LTTE Leader Velupillai Prabakaren as It is Reported that He May have Fled to malaysia.
Meanwhile Sri Lankan Troops Today Captured an LTTE Control Center In Mulativue and a Boat Manufacturing Plant in Pudikuduirippu Area.

Arjuna Files A Case Against The Sports Minister

Former Cricket Interim Committee Chairman and Parlimentarian Arjuna Ranathunga To Day(22) Filed a Fundamental Rights Case In The Supreme Court Against The Sports Minister Gamini Lokuge's Decision On Dissolving The Interim Committee Few Weeks Ago.He Claiming Rs 5 Million Damage from the Minister and Requesting to Reinstate the Dissolved Committee.

LTTE Refused To Allow UN Staff Return From Vanni

LTTE Refused To Allow UN Staff Working in Vanni as Humanitarian Mission to Return From Vanni with Their Present convoy UN Office In Colombo Announced To Day(22).UN Office Strongly Protest Against the LTTE Move.

LTTE Hold 150 Health Workers As Hostages

Health Services Trade Union Alliance(HSTUA) To Day Revealed that The LTTE Forcibly Taken 150 Health Workers Including 20 Nurses Attached to the Kilinochchi Hospital As Hostages and Holding them inside a Temporary Hospital Building at Mulativue.Others who Are Taken as Hostages Including Minor Staff and Public Health Inspectors served in the Northern Provincial Hospitals.The President of the Alliance Mr.Saman Rathnapriya Requested LTTE To Released These Health Personal and Allow them to Move in to The Government Held Areas.

Jayawardanapura Hospital Is A White Elephant -GMOA

Government Medical Officers Association To day Condemned the Poor Governing of the Sri Lanka's Only Semi Government Hospital Sri Jayawardenapura Hospital Saying that The Hospital It self Running Out of Patients and In to a Position of Begging Patients from The Government Hospitals.
Addressing a Press Briefing In Colombo To Day Dr.Upul Gunasekara The Assistant Secretary Of The Association Said that The Cardio Thoracic Surgeons of the Hospital Last weak appealed to the Ministry Of Health to Send Cardiac Patients who Are in the Waiting List of the Colombo National Hospital with the Money For Jayawardenapura Hospital Due to they are Not having Patients to Perform Surgeries.However The Cardio Thoracic Unit of the Hospital Is Currently Facing A Drug and Equipment Shortage and How they Can Perform the Surgeries under This kind of Circumstance Is a Question He Stressed. The Governing Board of the Hospital Is Engaged In Spending Heavily The Funds Received By The Hospital For Useless Things like Painting A kitchen Instead of Developing the Infrastructure Dr Gunasekara Said.
If the Health Ministry Not Taking Steps to Correct this Irregularities of the Jayawardenapura Hospital Within Two Weeks Time GMOA Will Take A Stern Action against It He further Added.

Health Ministry To Send Controversial Tender Report On Cleaning Services To The PFC

Health Ministry Tender Board on Cleaning Services Of Thirty Seven Government Hospitals Decides To Send The Controversial Technical Evaluation Report of The Tender Awarding To the Public Finance Commission(PFC) Seeking their Advise .Technical Evaluation Report Presented to the Tuesday's Tender Board Meeting Recommended to Award the Tender to the Highest Bid Ministry Sources said.Evaluation Committee Chairman is In the View that Tender should Be Awarded to The Highest Bid But Rest of the Four Members in the Committee Are Saying that the Tender Should be Awarded To the Company Presented the Lowest Bid.
Technical Evaluation Committee Is Divided in to Two groups on the Issue and Due to This Tender Board Decides to Sent the Controversial Report to the Public Finance Commission Before Taking a Decision.

Main Opposition UNP Handover A No Confidence Motion Against The Govt.

The Main Opposition United National Party(UNP)Handover the No Confidence Motion Against the Government At Parliment This Morning On Controversial Oil Hedging Issue .This Motion was Hand Over To the Speaker.UNP Also Handover a No Confidence Motion Against the Government Few Weeks ago but Not able to Proceed it Further.