Excise Department Chief Was Sent To Jail For Bribery Charges

The Colombo Chief Magistrate has today (05)  ordered to remand The Officer In Charge of the Excise Department's Special Investigations Unit Rosmand Fernando who was arrested yesterday (04) whilst accepting a Rs.50,000 bribe from a Illicit Liquor Trader  until 12th of August.

The  Officer In Charge Fernando was arrested by the Bribery Commission Officers whilst accepting Rs.50,000 from a  Illicit Liquor Trader of Western Province to refrain from taking a legal action against him .The arrest was made at a canteen of the Private Mobile Company in Colombo yesterday evening.It was revealed that the charged officer had received Rs.450,000 bribe earlier from the liquor trader.

Health Workers To Conduct Protest Campaigns Tomorrow(06) To Get Solutions For Five Service Demands

The Health Workers belongs to  27 categories in Government Hospitals and the Health Institutions are scheduled  to conduct  protest campaigns in front of their work places island wide and the Ministry of Health tomorrow(06) from 12 noon to 1 p.m by demanding solutions for five of their service demands.

According to the  Joint Trade Union Committee which organizes  these protest campaigns the health workers including Minor Staff,Lift Operators,Store Keepers,Telephone Operators are decided to conduct these protest campaigns to demand solutions for five of their service demands including solving their salar
y anomalies and declaring a five day week for the workers .

Twelve Medical Officers Of GMOA Handed Over A Complaint To The CID On Union's s Financial Frauds

A group of 12 Medical Officers attach to the Government Medical Officers Association(GMOA) had made a complaint to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) this evening by requesting an investigation on the financial frauds said to be happened at  GMOA Office when spending membership money during the financial year  2013-2014 .

The Medical Officers group had handover a written complaint to the higher officials of CID  by this evening by leveling   6 financial fraud charges against the former executive committee of the GMOA.

The said Medical Officers have been criticizing  the former Executive Committee of the GMOA for the  said  financial frauds and urging  the authorities to conduct an impartial inquiry against the  former executive committee.

Meanwhile members of Former GMOA Executive Committee are due to be appeared before the Mount Lavinia Magistrate Court tomorrow as  the court case filed against them by a group of seven medical officers scheduled to be heard there.The court case was filed against the former GMOA executive members for conducting their annual election by violating the court order which was issued to avoid  the election.

A 24 Hour Check Up Service Established In Katunayake Air Port To Check Ebola Carriers

The Health Ministry and the Air Port Officials had jointly set up a 24 hour  a day service Emergency Operations Center at the Health Center in Katunayake ,Bandaranaike International Air Port  with effect from today(04) to prevent entering Ebola Viral Fever to the country.

According to the Ministry Of Health a separate team of Nurses and an ambulance were handed over to the Air Port Health Center if a need arise to  transport a  patient with ebola virus to the Fever Hospital in IDH .All the foreigners arrive the country from today especially  the African Nationals will be subjected to undergo a special health check up  to see  whether they are carrying  the virus .

The deadly Ebola Virus has spreading in African Countries as an epidemic  and a total number of 700 have died from the disease up to date.

Chief Of The Excise Department's Special Investigations Unit Was Arrested Whilst Taking A Bribe Of Rs.50,000

The Officers of The Commission to Investigate Allegations of  Bribery Or Corruption had arrested the Officer in Charge of the Excise Department's Special Investigations Unit Rosman Fernando this afternoon for allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs.50,000 from A  Illicit Liquor Trader .

According to the Commission,The Special Investigations Unit Chief Fernando had requested a sum of Rs.500,000 bribe from a illicit liquor trader in the western province to avoid taking  a legal action against him and had previously  taken Rs.450,000 out of that money.

 The Special Investigations Unit Chief was arrested today  by the bribery officials when he was accepting the  Rs.50,000 balance money out  of  that Rs.500,000  bribe  at a canteen attach to  the Private Telecommunication Company   in Colombo.

A Large Stocks Of Rice And Grains Stored In An Unhygienic Way In Food Stores Have Been Detained

A large stock of Rice Varieties,Dhal and Brown Sugar stored in an unhygienic way at the  Government owned CWE(Corporative Wholesale Establishment) Distribution Stores in Welisara  in Colombo have been detained by the Public Health Inspectors today (02)according to the Sri Lanka Public Health Inspectors Association.

Among the stocks that detained were 35,000 Kilo Grammes of Basmathi Rice,30,000 Kilo Grammes of Keeri Samba Rice,100,840 Kilo Grammes of Nadu Rice,7905 Kilo Grammes of Dhal.and 24,970 Kilo Grammes of Brown sugar the Association has said.

In another development Public Health Inspectors were raided 52 Food Stores in Gampaha District(Western Province) yesterday (01) and filed court cases against 34 Food Stores for maintaining them in  unhygienic way.Out of these 34 Food Stores 24 are government owned CWE Stores Public Health Inspectors Association has said.

Refugees And Asylum Seekers In Sri Lanka Have Increased By 700% Within A Year

There's a 700% increase of  Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Sri Lanka between  the period  2013-2014 the Ministry of External Affairs has announced today.As at 30th June 2014 a total number of 1870 Refugees and Asylum Seekers are there in the country accordng to the ministry.Out of this number 368 are  Refugees and 1562 are Asylum Seekers .Among them there are a large number of individual asylum seekers of Pakistani Origin it has been identified.


The large number of  People who are illegally migrating to Sri Lanka through illegal human trafficking networks is identified as the main reason behind the increasing number  of Asylum Seekers here the Ministry has revealed.

Due to this Illegal migration of asylum seekers to Sri Lanka a serious health issues like spreading of Malaria have cropped up in the country the authorities have  said.