Mr. Perera is currently the Chairman of Pramuka Group of Companies and also the chairman of a specialised and a merchant bank. All arrangements are now being finalised in Jaffna for the October 10 General Election and indications are that there will be a fair, free and peaceful poll in the district according to observations made by a visiting group of Journalists from Colombo yesterday. Jaffna District Secretary K. Shanmuganathan who met the delegation at his office said he expected a very good turnout of voters at the forthcoming election. Mr. K. Senanayake Assistant Commissioner of Elections told this edition this morning that following the ruling given by the Court of appeal on a petition filed by an Independent group which contests the same district, the 10 member nomination list of the Tamil United Liberation Front would not be eligible to contest the upcoming elections. Military Spokesman Brigadier Sanath Karunaratne told the Daily News that the explosion had occurred near the Vilgamvehera junction on the Trincomalee-Anuradhapura main road at 3.20 pm.
Children have a right to be participants in mapping out their own future.
They have a right to their own beliefs and to utter them. They should be an integral part of the program and strategies of governments, directed towards their cause. Minister Kadirgamar told a special heads of delegates workshop at the International Conference on War Affected Children in Winnipeg, Canada. Sri Lanka has a good potential as a tourist destination although there is a conflict in the Northern and Eastern parts of the country, a leading Swiss hotelier, Otto Mueller said. Even in gloomy periods, a large number of European tourists visited the country specially to visit its cultural sites in Kandy, Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa, Sigiriya and Dambulla, he said at the opening of his hotel project 'Swiss Hotel Lotus Flower at Wadduwa recently.