6 Thursday 25th August, 2011 The Island Home News A second job Specialised tea thieves Emergency Numbers Essential Services National Help Desk 118 he Peliyagoda with them and they were able to steal Electr icity Breakdown Service selling ganja C (CEB) police on a large number of bags contain- olombo City (1 - 15 W ) (01 1) 249 he TTuesday ing tea. ater Breakdown Service 8498 (Colombo City) Aralaganwila arrested five suspects The police are looking (011) 267 2222 police on (011) 26 T responsible for the for the mastermind Co 7 4444 (011) 537 437 lombo 5 Tuesday arrested Municipal Council (011 theft of Rs two mil- behind the racket and the Pub ) 4722022 Hot LIne 110 lic Transport Service five men who were lion worth of ‘A’ employees who assisted C entral Bus Stand-P transporting ettah (011) 232 grade tea ready for the suspects in pilfering the Private Bus Stan 9606 Ganja from d-Pettah (011) 586 Colombo 5904 export to the London tea. Those in custody would Fort Railway Inquiries Moneragala to General Post O (011) 243 4215 ffice Colombo Aralagnawila. auctions from a store on be produced before the (011) 232 6203 The policemen money Biyagama road. Colombo Chief Magistrate Emergency S they earned was not ervices who were on duty The police acting on a tip- today, the police said. Fire Service (Colomb o) (011 sufficient to keep the Police Emergen ) 242 2222, 110 in the town made a routine off arrested the suspects cy Service home fires burning they were Police E 119 search of a bus travelling from mergency (Colombo) compelled to peddle drugs. from their hideouts in Bomb D (011) 243 3333 Moneragala and felt suspi- isposal (Army Squad) They said that three trips Kelaniya, Pattiya junc- Accident Se (011) 243 4251 cious about the five men rvice (General Hosp Am itals) (011) 269 11 whose behaviour was unnatu- were made per week to collect tion and Grandpass. bulance Services 11 ral. the ganja from a mudalali in On interroga- St. Johns (011) 243 Moneragala who operates a Sri Lanka 7744 When their bags were tion they have Red Cross (0 ganja cultivation in Mobile 11) 555 5505 searched the neatly packed told the police that Tanamalwila and they trans- (077) 299 2312 consignment of ganja was they were employed by a notorious criminal Contact N found concealed in the false port the narcotic in the night orman buses. who had been engaged in the business of pil- Tel : 2497500/ bottom of a travelling bag car- 0718442666 ried by one of them. The sus- The suspects would be pro- fering quality tea from stores in the area Fax: 2497543 duced before the Polonnaruwa before it is transported to the port. pects on interrogation have Email: newse told the police that all of them Magistrate once the interroga- The suspects have said that some employ- [email protected] tion is completed, the police were employed and as the ees of the stores complex were hand in glove said. Burglar dressed in black Hubby liked fomer he Kalpitiya police on The police said, at Monday arrested a suspect the time of his arrest, servant’s company Twho was responsible for a the man had Rs 10,000 woman from Kiribathgoda seen her husband at the spate of burglaries in Kalpitiya. in his shirt pocket and complained to the police on cinema with his paramour. The man had stolen gold jew- a mobile phone. ATuesday that her husband After the woman’s hus- ellery and valuables to the tune of Those who caught the had gone to a cinema with anoth- band was summoned by Rs one million, the police said. suspect have told the er woman and he doesn’t want to the police, he had con- The residents in the area had police that the man had live with him anymore. fessed that the woman was caught a man dressed in black been talking to someone When the officer who took none other than their for- who had been loitering in the area over the phone when down the complaint questioned mer servant. in the night and later it was they spotted him in a her as to how she got to know The police warned the revealed that the man who was lonely spot. about it, she had told the police man to discontinue his caught was none other than the He is being inter- that her sister had gone for a association with the burglar the police were looking rogated by the police. movie with her boyfriend and had woman. for. All responsible to protect Sailor in hot water

Navy headquarters yester- been detained after he left (23). An SLN official told The environment - Yapa day said that a sailor the camp carrying a T-56 Island that legal action attached to a base in the assault rifle and 120 rounds would be taken against the the hotel sector. North central province had of ammunition on Tuesday sailor. The Minister said that after the industrial revolution people have thought more about their comforts and it had led to pollution of the environment. Nimal heads “More forest cover had been Fun time for Old Anandians destroyed and no concern had been shown for fauna and flora,” he The Annual Get-Together Colombo. SL-China PFA added. and Dinner Dance of the Old The Executive Committee “Before long, we will see that a Anandians’ Centenary Group cordially invites its members Leader of the House and number of animal species have been (OACG) will be held on to grace this colorful event for Irrigation Minister Nimal destroyed and they have gone forev- Saturday, August 27, from 07.30 enjoyment and entertainment Siripala De Silva was er,” he said. pm onwards at Samudra Ball to commemorate its 20th appointed Chairman of the “There are so many endangered Room, Taj Samudra Hotel, anniversary, this year. Sri Lanka-China species of animals and soon we will Parliamentary Friendship see the extinction of those species Association at a meeting of due to the follies of mankind,” the the association held at the Minister said. Parliamentary complex yes- “Hence, we have a bounden duty Uncultivated land to terday. Minister S. B. to protect the environment,” he said. Dissanayake was appointed The government had done so Secretary. much to protect the environment and be taken over The meeting was presided President presents one of the four gold awards to already a number of projects had over by Speaker Chamal BY SAMAN INDRAJITH Heritance Kandalama’s General Manager Jeewaka Weerakoon. Looking on been launched and some more were Rajapaksa. are Minister Anura Priyadharshana Yapa and CEA Chairman Chartiha on the pipeline, he said. About 15,000 to 20,000 adding that the companies had Ministers Basil Rajapaksa, Herath. Pic Jude Denzil Pathiraja The Minister denied Tuesday’s hectares of land belonging to been given a period of six and newspaper reports that the govern- estate companies were lying months to commence cultiva- Prof Tissa Vitarana were BY HARISCHANDRA GUNARATNA at the Sirimavo Bandaranaike ment had given a large extent of idle, Plantations Minister tion in lands not used so far. appointed vice presidents Convention and Exhibition Hall, State land to an American Company told The Minister, while partici- while Parliamentarians S. Environment Minister Anura where President Mahinda Rajapakse to grow bananas. Parliament yesterday. pating in the debate on regula- Yogeshwaran and M. S. Priyadharshana Yapa on Tuesday was the Chief Guest. Central Environment Authority Those lands would be tions under the Tea Small Towfeeq were appointed said “We need to be concerned about The President gave away the four Chairman Charitha Herath said the acquired by the Government Holdings Developments Law, assistant secretaries of the the environment we live in more gold awards. These were won by CEA had reached an important mile- and used to cultivate cash said that this six month period association. Around 40 gov- than ever and it is the responsibility Bodyline (Pvt) ltd, Horana, in the stone in completing 30 years of exis- crops such as rubber and tea, granted to the companies had ernment and opposition of all human beings to protect it”. garment sector, Sri Lanka Catering tence and during this period it had he said. lapsed and the government members who attended the Yapa was addressing a gathering Ltd in the waste management and re- done a great service to protect the Those lands first belonged to would take action to acquire meeting were elected to the of award winners and invitees at the cycling sector, Heritance Kandalama, environment and helped solve many the government and then they the lands which had not been executive committee of the National Green Awards organized by Dambulla, in the hotel sector and crisis situations where environmen- had been transferred to private cultivated and they would be association, parliamentary the Central Environment Authority Ullugalla Resort, Tirappane also in tal hazards were concerned. estate companies under the 53- handed over to the parties who sources said. year leasing procedure, he said could make use of them.

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