Towards an efficient Police
The Police Department must increase the number of
police stations, staff and vehicles and provide them with more
modern and recommended systems to solve crime. Today like in the
past, a police officer is exhausted working sometimes 24 hours with
the same salary, no overtime and rest. The Department must be
strengthened with proper trained staff properly equipped and
motivated to solve crime, not use them to work long and strenuous
hours and naturally they are harassed by the superiors, politicians
and are exhausted then they take it on the poor public,
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Europe in the spotlight at weekend G20 talks
Slowing growth and slumping financial markets
have created strain within the Group of 20 rich and developing
economies that makes up 85 percent of global output, in contrast to
2009 when the group launched a coordinated stimulus to pull the
world economy back from the brink,
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Conditions for violence-free polls
The election has also apparently sealed the fate
of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, the enfant terrible of mainstream
politics. It secured a handful of individual seats scattered across
the island. Its biggest humiliation came in Sri Jayawardanapura
Kotte, where it failed to win a seat, although it had been
represented in the council since 1997,
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Farewell, beautiful people!
It was I believe in January 2000. I received an
email from a friend, copied to others including some close friends.
Ayca Cubukcu, then an undergraduate at Cornell University, addressed
the recipients as ‘Beautiful People’. She wrote in indignation and
with hope.
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