The Island Home News Thursday 25th August, 2011 6 Emergency Numbers Essential Services National Help Desk 118 Specialised tea thieves Electricity Breakdown Service (CEB) A second job with them and they were able to steal Colombo City (1 - 15) (01 1) 249 8498 he Peliyagoda a large number of bags contain- Water Breakdown Service police on ing tea. (Colombo City) (011) 267 2222 selling ganja Tuesday The police are looking (011) 267 4444 (011) 537 4375 T Colombo Municipal Council (011) 47 for the mastermind 22022 Hot LIne 110 he arrested five suspects Public Transport Service behind the racket and the Aralaganwila responsible for the Central Bus Stand-Pettah (011) 232 9606 Tpolice on theft of Rs two mil- employees who assisted Private Bus Stand-Pettah (011) 586 5904 Tuesday arrested lion worth of ‘A’ the suspects in pilfering the Colombo Fort Railway Inquiries (011) 243 4215 General Post Office Colombo (011) 232 6203 five men who were grade tea ready for tea. Those in custody would transporting export to the London be produced before the Emergency Services Ganja from auctions from a store on Colombo Chief Magistrate Fire Service (Colombo) (011) 242 2222, 110 Moneragala to Police Emergency Service 119 money Biyagama road. today, the police said. Aralagnawila. Police Emergency (Colombo) (011) 243 3333 they earned was not The police acting on a tip- The policemen Bomb Disposal (Army Squad) (011) 243 4251 who were on duty sufficient to keep the off arrested the suspects Accident Service (General Hospitals) (011) 269 1111 in the town made a routine home fires burning they were from their hideouts in Ambulance Services search of a bus travelling from compelled to peddle drugs. Kelaniya, Pattiya junc- St. Johns (011) 243 7744 They said that three trips Moneragala and felt suspi- tion and Grandpass. Sri Lanka Red Cross (011) 555 5505 cious about the five men were made per week to collect Mobile (077) 299 2312 On interroga- whose behaviour was unnatu- the ganja from a mudalali in ral. Moneragala who operates a tion they have Contact Norman When their bags were ganja cultivation in told the police that Tel : 2497500/0718442666 searched the neatly packed Tanamalwila and they trans- they were employed by a notorious criminal Fax: 2497543 consignment of ganja was port the narcotic in the night who had been engaged in the business of pil- Email: [email protected] found concealed in the false buses. fering quality tea from stores in the area The suspects would be pro- bottom of a travelling bag car- before it is transported to the port. ried by one of them. The sus- duced before the Polonnaruwa The suspects have said that some employ- pects on interrogation have Magistrate once the interroga- told the police that all of them tion is completed, the police ees of the stores complex were hand in glove were employed and as the said. Hubby liked fomer Burglar dressed in black servant’s companyseen her husband at the The police said, at woman from Kiribathgoda he Kalpitiya police on cinema with his paramour. the time of his arrest, complained to the police on Monday arrested a suspect After the woman’s hus- the man had Rs 10,000 Tuesday that her husband who was responsible for a A band was summoned by T in his shirt pocket and had gone to a cinema with anoth- spate of burglaries in Kalpitiya. the police, he had con- a mobile phone. er woman and he doesn’t want to The man had stolen gold jew- Those who caught the fessed that the woman was live with him anymore. ellery and valuables to the tune of none other than their for- suspect have told the When the officer who took Rs one million, the police said. police that the man had mer servant. down the complaint questioned The residents in the area had been talking to someone The police warned the her as to how she got to know caught a man dressed in black over the phone when man to discontinue his about it, she had told the police who had been loitering in the area they spotted him in a association with the that her sister had gone for a in the night and later it was lonely spot. woman. movie with her boyfriend and had revealed that the man who was He is being inter- caught was none other than the rogated by the police. burglar the police were looking for. Sailor in hot water (23). An SLN official told The been detained after he left Navy headquarters yester- Island that legal action All responsible to protect the camp carrying a T-56 day said that a sailor would be taken against the assault rifle and 120 rounds attached to a base in the sailor. - Yapa of ammunition on Tuesday environment North central province had the hotel sector. The Minister said that after the industrial revolution people have thought more about their comforts Nimal heads and it had led to pollution of the environment. Fun time for Old Anandians SL-China PFA “More forest cover had been Colombo. destroyed and no concern had been The Annual Get-Together The Executive Committee Leader of the House and shown for fauna and flora,” he and Dinner Dance of the Old cordially invites its members Irrigation Minister Nimal added. Anandians’ Centenary Group to grace this colorful event for Siripala De Silva was “Before long, we will see that a (OACG) will be held on enjoyment and entertainment appointed Chairman of the number of animal species have been Saturday, August 27, from 07.30 to commemorate its 20th Sri Lanka-China destroyed and they have gone forev- pm onwards at Samudra Ball anniversary, this year. Parliamentary Friendship er,” he said. Room, Taj Samudra Hotel, Association at a meeting of “There are so many endangered the association held at the species of animals and soon we will Parliamentary complex yes- see the extinction of those species terday. Minister S. B. due to the follies of mankind,” the Dissanayake was appointed Minister said. Uncultivated land to Secretary. “Hence, we have a bounden duty The meeting was presided to protect the environment,” he said. over by Speaker Chamal The government had done so be taken over Rajapaksa. much to protect the environment and BY SAMAN INDRAJITH Ministers Basil Rajapaksa, already a number of projects had adding that the companies had Susantha Punchinilame and been launched and some more were About 15,000 to 20,000 been given a period of six President Mahinda Rajapaksa presents one of the four gold awards to Prof Tissa Vitarana were on the pipeline, he said. hectares of land belonging to months to commence cultiva- appointed vice presidents Heritance Kandalama’s General Manager Jeewaka Weerakoon. Looking on The Minister denied Tuesday’s estate companies were lying tion in lands not used so far. while Parliamentarians S. are Minister Anura Priyadharshana Yapa and CEA Chairman Chartiha newspaper reports that the govern- idle, Plantations Minister The Minister, while partici- Yogeshwaran and M. S. Herath. Pic Jude Denzil Pathiraja ment had given a large extent of Mahinda Samarasinghe told pating in the debate on regula- Towfeeq were appointed at the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Parliament yesterday. GUNARATNA State land to an American Company tions under the Tea Small assistant secretaries of the BY HARISCHANDRA Convention and Exhibition Hall, to grow bananas. Those lands would be Holdings Developments Law, association. Around 40 gov- where President Mahinda Rajapakse Central Environment Authority acquired by the Government said that this six month period ernment and opposition Environment Minister Anura was the Chief Guest. Chairman Charitha Herath said the and used to cultivate cash granted to the companies had members who attended the Priyadharshana Yapa on Tuesday The President gave away the four CEA had reached an important mile- crops such as rubber and tea, lapsed and the government meeting were elected to the said “We need to be concerned about gold awards. These were won by stone in completing 30 years of exis- he said. would take action to acquire executive committee of the the environment we live in more Bodyline (Pvt) ltd, Horana, in the tence and during this period it had Those lands first belonged to the lands which had not been association, parliamentary than ever and it is the responsibility garment sector, Sri Lanka Catering done a great service to protect the the government and then they cultivated and they would be sources said. of all human beings to protect it”. Ltd in the waste management and re- environment and helped solve many had been transferred to private handed over to the parties who Yapa was addressing a gathering cycling sector, Heritance Kandalama, crisis situations where environmen- estate companies under the 53- could make use of them. of award winners and invitees at the Dambulla, in the hotel sector and tal hazards were concerned. year leasing procedure, he said National Green Awards organized by Ullugalla Resort, Tirappane also in the Central Environment Authority 433 Crossword Solution – No. 432 secured (5) (8) 5 Blood-sucking African fly; Across 21 Narrow thin strip of wood transmits sleeping sickness etc. 7 Small cave (usually with used as backing for plaster (4) (6) attractive feature s) (6) 23 Of or relating to herbs (6) 6 Lift (8) 8 Without question (6) 24 Pity (6) 12 Cog (8) 9 Ring (4) 14 Deliquium (7) 10 Responsive (8) Down 16 To bring into debt; to place 11 Person who refuses to face 1 Musical composition for three under obligation (6) reality (7) performers (4) 18 Toast (6) 13 Left hander (5) 2 Shock (6) 15 Drag (5).