Protecting land owners from land fraud
With the end of the crippling three decade war,
Sri Lanka embarks on two new fronts in its war on land fraudsters
and its war on ideas to prevent land fraud. In many developing
countries land fraud is becoming a major threat to land ownership;
the increasing incidence of white collar crimes, the theft of
identity cards and the substitution of legitimate documents with
forged documents has resulted in landowners being physically
dispossessed of their land and their names replaced in the land
registers by the fraudsters.
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There are many ways to stand up, a man called Gamini reminded me
Anniversaries are for remembrance. We note
certain anniversaries because they are significant. We note them
because life overtakes incident and in that inevitable movement we
not only forget moment and personality but lesson. There are ‘days’
dedicated to fathers, mothers, lovers, the earth and water. They
make no sense to me. They are realities though. Some days, however,
cannot be moved around at will. Birthdays, for instance. Death
anniversaries.
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The Colombo Plan at 60
The Colombo Plan celebrated its 60th anniversary
on July 1, 2011. The origin of the Colombo Plan, dates back to the
Commonwealth Foreign Minister’s Conference held in Colombo on
January 9, 1950. Sri Lanka’s (then Ceylon) ministerial delegation to
the conference comprised Prime Minister D. S. Senanayake, Finance
Minister J. R. Jayewardene, Justice Minister Sir Lalitha Rajapaksa,
Parliamentary Secretary to the External Affairs Minister R. G.
Senanayake.
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