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Unsuitable food items destroyed
Mahaweli Systems Corr.
A team of Public Health Inspectors (PHIs) attached to the Medical
Officer of Health Office for Dambulla destroyed several stocks of dry
foods unsuitable for consumption during a series of recent raids in
Dambulla.
These food items including gram, dhal, dried fish, big onions, white
onion and ‘Koththamalli’ were about to be released to retail markets.
The PHIs found the food stocks while they were stored in the Dambulla
Economic Centre, the report said, adding that the stores belong to a
private sector wholesale businessman.
Eighteen thousand killogrammes of food items unfit for human
consumption were thus removed from the market, it was pointed out.
Dhamma school ceremony
The official ceremony to pin emblems of Siri Pannatissa Dhamma School
of Kiribathgoda Sri Sudharshanarama Vihara will take place at 9.30 a.m.
on January 13 under the patronage of Viharadhipathi Ven. Makola Mangala
Thera.
Chief Incumbent of the Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara Ven. Kollupitiye
Mahindhasangharakkhitha Thera will Chair the occasion. Sri Lankan
Consular General in Los Angeles Jaliya Wickremasuriya, Judge Kumudunee
Wickremesinghe, Principal of Viharamahadevi Balika Vidyalaya Anoma
Shyamalie Abeyratne, Public Utility Commission Director General Prof.
Priyantha Wijetunga will participate as special invitees.
Course
The International Relations Economic Affairs, English Language Skills
and General Knowledge course conducted by the Bandaranaike International
Diplomatic Training Institute will begin on January 18 and conclude on
January 24.
Wet conditions in Kandy
S.M. Jiffrey ABDEEN, Kandy South group corr.
Kandy is experiencing extremely wet conditions and the Sun has not
come out upto Wednesday (January 9th) causing much inconvenience to the
residents.
The afternoons are extremely cold and the hilly areas like Hantane,
Uduwela, Anniewatte are covered with thick mist in the nights and early
mornings.
Casual workers in various places who work in the fields are affected
as their employment depends on the weather.
Even if the rain ceases the cloudy and overcast conditions prevent
sunshine falling over the hill capital. |
