Sri Lanka’s cabinet has approved a new constitutional amendment that will see the presidential office of Gotabaya Rajapaksa expand its role and the scaling back of constitutional checks and balances on executive power.

Canadian Tamils gathered in Brampton’s City Hall to begin the “Walk for Justice,” where 5 dedicated men began their walk to Ottawa’s parliament hill to call for an international investigation into Tamil disappearances in Sri Lanka.

This is in solidarity with families of the disappeared who are making the same demand of the UN Human Right’s Commissioner.

 

A demonstration over the shortage of doctors was held outside Vavuniya Chettikulam Base hospital yesterday. 

US Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Alaina B. Teplitz has opened a new school, the Khoonethivu Navalar school, in Sampur, Trincomalee, with the assistance of Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Education.

Norwegian Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Trine Eskedal, congratulated Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on his recent election victory, and told him that she is looking forward to working with the new government.

<p>Residents of Mullaitivu have raised concern over the increased activity of illlegal logging occurring near the town of Thunukkai.</p>

Tamil mother at a rally in Vavuniya marking 1289 days of roadside protest

Acting British High Commissioner, Lisa Whantsall met with Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa to discuss areas of collaboration between Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom last week. 

A Sri Lankan police officer has been arrested for being in possession of drugs in Ampara.

The officer from Welikada Police Station had 9 grams of heroin and 390 grams of ice seized from him, when he was stopped in the Damana area last week.

Several diplomats in Sri Lanka took to Twitter to call for answers on the International Day of the Disappeared, as Tamil families of the disappeared protested across the North-East.

<p>Recently graduated students protested opposite the Jaffna District Secretariat, demanding to know why their applications to the government employment programme had been rejected.</p>