By Ashwin Hemmathagama Our Lobby Correspondent Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage yesterday in Parliament expressed displeasure with the performance of Sri Lanka Cricket after he on Wednesday assured national cricketers would be paid on time. Aluthgamage told Parliament

ESPNCricinfo: Former ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat’s role as special advisor to the SLC will include an independent review of its governance and recommendations to the heavily indebted board on financial management, SLC Secretary Nishantha Ranatunga has said. All recommendations made by Lorgat in his three-month tenure will then be made public. He will also ...

Seylan Bank PLC recently signed up with Sri Lanka Cricket as their latest merchant to the Internet Payment Gateway. Sri Lanka Cricket has engaged in online operations that features three main segments specifically on Ticketing, Merchandising and Auctioning. The first segment to get online

Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene said he still retains the passion to represent his country and play at the highest level; but reiterated that he sees his current stint as skipper only as a stop-gap arrangement. \\Jayawardene, who replaced Tillakaratne Dilshan as Sri Lanka captain after the tour of South Africa, has had decent success ...

Parliamentary accountability The Parliament, as the country’s foremost representative institution, has the sole authority over national resources and financial allocations and concurrently has a prominent role to play in fiscal responsibility, the budgetary process, economic development and effective transparent economic and financial management, with a view to assuring sustainable growth an...

Ahead of Friday's AGM, Pan Asia Bank Plc (PABC Bank) Board of Directors yesterday appointed Nimal Perera as the Chairman and Eshana de Silva as the Deputy. Nimal was previously the Deputy Chairman and was elevated as the incumbent senior banker A.G. Weerasinghe is up for retirement. The new appointments are effective from 2 April. ...

The ICC World Twenty20 2012 ticket launch will take place at the Galle Face Green on Saturday 24 March 18.30 (Colombo time) with President Mahinda Rajapaksa purchasing the very first ticket of the tournament. The launch will also feature the ICC Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat as well as representatives from both the Sri Lankan men’s ...

Calcutta (The Tele-graph): Sri Lanka’s cricketers are yet to see a cent from their tour of Australia and played Friday’s match out of contract, but there has been movement in a pay dispute with their board, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Also the Australian Cricketers’ Association and Cricket Australia, discussing the next pay deal, are ...

The Bank of Ceylon has agreed to release Rs. 600 million to Sri Lanka Cricket to pay longstanding dues to national players. The move follows discussions Sports Minister Mahindananda Aluthgamage had with the Chairman and Board officials of the Bank of Ceylon along with the officials of the Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka’s cricketing fortunes seem to be changing of late. The team’s better performance has raised hopes among many fans, while the Sports Ministry’s decision to finally pay the cricketers through a Rs. 600 million loan from the Bank of Ceylon will raise moral still higher. The financial fallout that resulted from the co-hosting of ...

What does independence mean to Sri Lanka? After 64 years, one would think that the value of freedom would have waned, but that is not the case. Yet the direction of this independence and what it means to people is undergoing a change and therein lies the challenge for the decades ahead. It is true ...

Australia’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard hosted the touring Sri Lanka cricket team at her residence ahead of the team’s practice match against the Prime Ministers XI which takes place on February 3 at the Manuka Oval. Sri Lanka are in Australia for the Commonwealth Bank Tri Series

Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) under its outreach programme ‘Sambhashana’ discussed ‘COPE Exposure and Beyond’ at the OPA Auditorium recently. On the panel were Rajiva Wijesinha, Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe PC and Professor A.D.V. de S. Indraratna. The moderator was Lakshman Gunasekera. Below is the presentation by Professor Indraratna: This is not the first time tha...

Charith Senanayake new manager for Aussie tour COLOMBO (Reuters): Sri Lanka have sacked coach Geoff Marsh and appointed South African Graham Ford on a two-year contract, a Sri Lanka cricket official said on Thursday. “Ford has signed a two-year contract and his first assignment

The ceremonial induction of Sujeewa Rajapakse as the 21st President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka (CA Sri Lanka) will be held today at 6 p.m. at the Oak Room of the Cinnamon Grand. Rajapakse will take over the mantle of CA Sri Lanka from Sujeewa Mudalige at the ceremony at which ...

In celebration of World AIDS Day, Standard Chartered in association with the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and the National STD/AIDS control programme of the Ministry of Health will remind individuals about the importance of prevention in fighting the pandemic as well as the need to challenge the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS, at a special corporate ...

MANY are the articles penned and opinions aired over Sri Lanka’s bid for the 2018 Commonwealth Games bid, but now the only question that needs to be answered is, where to from here? Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal told media that the cost for the promotion of Hambantota as the venue was US$ 8 ...

Having made a name and mega bucks from the Colombo bourse, high net worth investor Nimal Perera has now sets sights on striking it big in the business of sports. Nimal has floated a sports industry-focused N Sports Pvt. Ltd., which incidentally is also his first self-owned venture. The inaugural deal of N Sports is ...

By Tyrone Perera The MCA ‘Centenary Year’ 2011 Invitational 20+20 Super tournament got off to a start at the venues on Wednesday. Both Sri Lanka Cricket Development squads hogged the limelight when their U-20 team, led by Ramitha Rambukwella beat the fancied Sampath Bank team, 2011 MCA

Five new directors have been appointed to the Asian Alliance Insurance Board following the acquisition of control by Softlogic Holdings Group. The new appointees are Softlogic Holdings Chairman Ashok Pathirage, T.M. Iftikar Ahamed, Sujeewa Rajapakse, Ranil P. Pathirana and Suraj N. Fernando. Their appointment follows the resignation of Mano Nanayakkara, S.A. Abeysinghe, R. J. Wickramasinghe, ...

Holmes Pollard and Stott has appointed Subashini Loganathan as the Chief Operating Officer (COO). Subashini joined Holmes Pollard & Stott 15 years ago as a Coordinator. Her charisma, poise and intellect have been crucial factors in maintaining strong ties with clients. She has handled several high profile brands such as Western Union, Seylan Bank, Brown ...