German Ambassador Jorn Rohde expressed concerns about the award of the contract for the execution of the LNG power project in Kerawalapitiya to a higher bidder.
The Cabinet decided on Tuesday to award the contract to a Chinese-led consortium to implement the project. However, the local company ‘Lakdhanavi’ was denied the contract despite it being the lowest bidder.
The ICJ has called on Sri Lanka’s President, Maithripala Sirisena, to retract his recent pronouncement that executions would resume in the country notwithstanding a moratorium on capital punishment that has lasted 43 years. The last execution was carried out in Sri Lanka in 1976.
More than 50 Sri Lankans who had illegally migrated to Reunion Island were deported by French authorities today.
The illegal Sri Lankan immigrants had reached the island on a fishing trawler.
