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Suspect hunter remanded

A person who had killed a deer and had a stock of ten kilograms of venison in his possession was taken into custody by the Norton Bridge police recently.

According to the Norton Bridge police the suspect living in an estate had committed this act by catching the deer with the help of his dogs and killing the animal.

Then he is alleged to have sold the venison to some of his neighbours and kept a portion of flesh in his house to be sold later.

On a tip off given by an informant in the area the Norton Bridge Police were able to arrest the suspect along with a stock of ten kilograms of venison in his possession.

The suspect when produced before the Hatton District magistrate Lalith Ekanayake was remanded till 24.4.2002.

Verdict of infanticide

A verdict of infanticide was returned by the Colombo Additional Magistrate Aruna Aluthge who held the magisterial inquiry into the killing of Anjula Shivantha (3 1/2 years) of Jinasena Mawatha, Mahara, Kadawata.

According to the police inquiries revealed that the dead boy's father died two years ago. After the death of the boy's father they had lived with his grandmother. A bachelor from Biyanwila, Kadawata, came to live with them a few months ago. Later he was addicted to liquor. On the day of the incident he had come home drunk and shouted at the boy's mother. Then there was a heated argument. He chased her with a sharp weapon. At that time Aruna was with his mother's sister. He hit the boy and ran away.

JMO Colombo Dr. D. M. D. M. Gunawardene held the autopsy.

The suspect was later arrested by the police and was produced before the Gampaha Magistrate and was remanded till April 28.

OIC CDB, N.V. Lawrance and a police party conducted the inquiries and led evidence under the instructions of OIC Kadawata police I.P. A. S. Nalaka.

Special education project for Wanni

The North East Provincial Director of Education I. M. Issadeen, addressing zonal directors of education in the Wanni region said a special education project is to be implemented in the Wanni region for the uplift of education.

The conference conducted to prepare the proposed special project was held at the North East Provincial Ministry of Education in Trincomalee.

Mr. Issadeen said during his recent visit to Wanni he found acute shortage of teachers and furniture in schools. These shortcomings should be removed with the implementation of the proposed special education project in the LTTE held Wanni region.

He added he has a proposal to supply at least twenty five thousand plastic chairs and tables to schools in Wanni. It is to be done with the financial assistance of the Ministry of Rehabilitation, Reconstruction and Refugees.

Fish dynamiters have a field day

Dynamiting of fish is taking place in South daily and they bring fish in bulk.

There is a very good market for dynamited fish at present, because no fish are available in markets.

Dynamiters are from Kosgoda to Habaraduwa areas in bulk. Board loads of those fish are brought to shores daily at noon and evening and sold openly in markets and sold to individuals at sky high rates.

According to the fishermen of these areas dynamite is used for deep sea fish shoals.

Once they throw the dynamite on to the shoal they immediately cast their pocket net around and when exploded the entire fish shoal is caught in the net.

Now they are using vallams, dinghy boats fitted with out board motors and thirty feet long mechanised boats for the purpose.

There are a large number of officers appointed to prevent this illegal action but they are not seen in these areas, the people say.

There are fishery Inspectors, Fishery Divisional Extension Officers, Fisheries Coastal Conservation Officers, Coastal Guards and several Police through out the coastal belt and action has to be taken to prevent this fish disaster.

Building unity between two communities

A Sinhala and Tamil children's camp organised by the World Vision Lanka (WVL) will be held from April 22 to 25 at Sevanagala Maha Vidyalaya, Thanamalvila, a WVL spokesman said.

He said that about 300 children will take part in this camp. The main objective of conducting this camp is educating Sinhala and Tamil communities about each others cultural patterns. Building unity between the two communities, developing leadership qualities, building self confidence and building friendship among Sinhala and Tamil children are some of the other objectives of this camp.

Educational lectures, entertaining sports, competitions, fire displays and group cooking sessions will be held during the camp. These group cooking sessions will help the participants to learn the varieties of each others food.

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