By Harischandra GunaratnaA conman who had duped a num-

ber of unsuspecting women on thepretext of marrying them, was arrest-ed by Fort police yesterday. The sus-pect who had been operating withimpunity for a long time had beenhaving many alliances with womenpromising to marry them and relievedthem of their jewellery and moneyamounting to several lacks, policesaid. After he was arrested he has hadin his possession Rs 500,000 worth ofgold jewellery taken from unsuspect-ing women.

When a team of police officers wentto arrest him, he resisted them andtried to assault them, but police wereable to overpower him and take him into custody, police said.

According to police among his vic-tims have been teachers, nurses, facto-ry girls, government servants etc.

by Sanjeevi Jayasuriya

Save the Children in SriLanka expressed its sadnessover the events of the past fewdays. It convey its condolencesto those families directlyaffected and raises concernabout the increased levels andintensity of violence demon-strated by the suicide attack onthe Army Commander and theair strikes and shelling in theTrincomalee area.

“As a humanitarian andchild focused agency, we areconcerned with the levels ofdisplacement these recentevents have created, with hav-ing fled their homes inTrincomalee district. We arereceiving reports of smallerdisplacements in some areas ofBatticaloa district”, spokesman

for theSave theChildrensaid.

Theorganisa-tion has apresence

on the ground and is makingrapid assessments andarrangements to cater to thesome of the needs of childrenand families who have beendisplaced during the recentpopulation movement inTrincomalee.

“We are now mobilizing toprovide packs for 2,000 fami-lies. These include plasticground sheets, blankets, watercontainers and water purifica-tion tablets, mosquito nets,cooking utensils and children’sclothes”, he said.

Save the Children is pre-pared to take a leading role onany child protection measuresrequired, including if thereshould be any separated chil-dren. We are also planning tosend an assessment team to theaffected area to look in tolonger term needs such asongoing education for children.However, it is our fervent hopethat this sudden escalation ofviolence will decrease, allow-ing innocent civilians toreturn quickly to their homes,he added.

by Jayantha de SilvaThe Government Medical Officers

Association yesterday(2) called for thespeedy implementation of the SalaryCircular 6.2006 as agreed by President

MahindaRajapakse andsetting up aResourcesPersonnelCommittee.

The GMOAwarned that fail-ure to do so byMay 25 will com-

pel the 12,000 strong union to resort totrade union action.

At a press briefing, the GeneralSecretary of the GMOA Dr. UdithaHerath said that in March, tradeunions representing various profes-sions had a discussion with thePresident. Agreement was reached onfive points, which included the settingup of a Resources PersonnelCommittee (RPC). However bureau-cratic inaction has stalled the imple-mentation of the RPC considered thepanacea for existing salary anomaliesaffecting all island service grades. The

core function of the RPC was to submitproposals to the new SalaryCommission Co Chaired by LionelFernando and Saliya Matthew. In addi-tion, the GMOA calls for the establish-ment of an occupational classificationfor professions.

In a rare departure from the stancetraditionally adopted by the GMOAwhich resorts to frequent strikes towin their demands, the GeneralSecretary admitted that the doctorshad been on strike for more than 200days of any given year. (Three quartersof the year)

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GMOA gives govt. ultimatumon salary circular

The Maldives for the first time in itshistory celebrated InternationalLabour Day, May 1, with an enthusiasticmarch, Media For Democratic PeopleWorldwide said in a report yesterday(2).

The rally organized by the MaldivianDemocratic Party commenced oppositethe new harbour ended at the MarineDrive with government and private sec-tor workers shouting slogans demand-ing President Maumoon AbdulGayoom’s government should join theILO, the report said.

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Soldier killedin LTTE attack

From Dinasena RathugamageOne soldier died yesterday (2) in an

LTTE attack on an Army unit engagedin a search operation betweenKadachchiur and Pudukulama inVavunia, police said.

The soldier who was criticallyinjured was admitted to the VavuniaHospital where he succumbed to hisinjuries later.

The Army mounted a cordon andsearch operation in the area afterwardsbut no suspects were found, police said.

GMOA for networkof military hospitals

by Jayantha de SilvaThe General Secretary of the GMOA

yesterday called for the setting up of anisland wide network of military hospi-tals citing the recent suicide attack atArmy HQ.

He said that though the ArmyHospital was closer to the blast sitethan the National Hospital, the Armyopted to rush the injured personnel tothe National Hospital perhaps in thebelief that the National Hospital is bet-ter equipped.

The GMOA is prepared to deploymembers in such hospitals, he stressed.

Norochcholai work set to fire offThe biggest development pro-

gramme under the MahindaChinthanaya, the NorochcholaiCoalPower Project, will getunderway this week, Minister ofPower and EnergyW.D.J.Seneviratne declared at afunction in Norochcholai recent-ly, where the villagers, likely topbe affected by the project, werebriefed on the quantum of com-pensation and other develop-ment oriented benefits theywould accrue. Seventy four fam-ilies would directly benefit, theMinister said.

Only 37 per cent of power isbeing generated through hydro

related projects while the restdepends on thermal generationwhich become increasinglycostly in view of the escalatingworld fuel prices. Seneviratneadmitted that Sri Lankan's elec-tricity bills were quite costlywhen compared to other coun-tries.

"If we continue to depend onthermal power our developmentwould definitely crumble.No for-eign investor would like to dumpvast sums of money on electrici-ty bills when it is available atcheaper rates in other coun-tries," the minister explained.

At least after the recent trip

to China, where the people ofNorocholai saw for themselvesthat there weren't any adverseaffects to the environment dueto coal power projects, the peo-ple would not believe in the falsepropaganda of vested interestswho attempted to dissuade thevillagers from agreeing to thecoal power project.

The Minister finally said thatdespite the country's annualrequirement is 150 MW since1994 only 80 MW has been addedto the national grid through theKukuleganga project which iswoefully inadequate to meet theever increasing demand.

by Dasun Edirisinghe

Students of the Sagara VishvaVidyalaya (SVV) – Institute ofFisheries and Naval Studies – urgedPresident Mahinda Rajapakse toimmediately affiliate the SVV to theSri Jayewardenepura University.

Everything is ready for affiliation,the Cabinet Paper has beenapproved too. But, due to theFisheries Ministry’s delay, nothinghas moved so far, DumindaNagamuwa, Convener of the InterUniversity Students federation toldThe Island yesterday.

The SVV was established underthe Fisheries Ministry by PresidentMahinda Rajapakse when he wasFisheries Minister in 1999. The maincampus was established in the

NARA premises in Colombo 15 and ithas a branch in Tangalle. Since 2001,there has been no intake of studentsto the Institute.

The UPFA promised the public, atthe last general election in 2004, thatthe SVV would be affiliated to theJayewardenepura University immedi-ately after the UPFA comes to power.Accordingly, the Education Ministerand Fisheries Minister presented ajoint Cabinet Paper to this effect at aCabinet meeting and it was passed afew months ago. But, the affiliation isstill being delayed, Nagamuwa said.

Education Minister SusilPremjayantha earlier told The Islandthat everything is ready for the affilia-tion from the Education Ministry side.But, the delay in due to the FisheriesMinistry, he said.

Affiliation of SVV to J’pura Universitybeing held up

Chairman, PoliceInspectors Assn.

Chief Inspector DaleGunaratne has been unanimous-ly re-elected Chairman of the SriLanka Police OfficersAssociation for the fourth con-secutive year. CI Gunaratne hasworking tirelessly to win therights of the Inspectorate andhad campaigned hard to see thatthe Inspectorate were given theirpromotions which were overdue.He is a popular figure amongpolicemen and has worked close-ly wit the public.

CI Gunaratne is an old boy ofMaris Stella College, Negombo.(HG)

CI Dale Gunaratne

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