{"id":8282,"date":"2020-02-29T04:07:59","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T04:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/?p=8282"},"modified":"2020-02-29T04:07:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T04:07:59","slug":"gotabhaya-says-most-of-his-time-spent-to-deal-with-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/gotabhaya-says-most-of-his-time-spent-to-deal-with-protests\/","title":{"rendered":"Gotabhaya says most of his time spent to deal with protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says most of his time is spent to deal with protests than other work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaking at an event at the Parliamentary Complex today, Rajapaksa said that a number of protests are staged near the Presidential Secretariat these days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">He said that most of his time and that of his staff is spent on dealing with the protesters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The President said that in future the respective Ministries will need to directly get involved and address the issues of the protesters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">On the recommendation of the Committee on Public Accounts (COPA), Government bodies which have achieved a high performance level in the year 2018 were presented with awards at the Parliamentary Complex under the patronage of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Of the 844 institutions of State, Provincial Councils and Local Government that have been evaluated, 109 institutions were picked to be awarded.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">They were presented with 55, 23 and 31, Gold and Silver awards and certificates of commendation respectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Speaker Karu Jayasuriya, Minister Johnston Fernando, Chairman of the Committee on Public Accounts, State Minister Lasantha Alagiyawanna, Members of Parliament Sisira Jayakody, Dulip Wijesekara, Secretary-General of Parliament,\u00a0 Dhammika Dasanayake, Auditor General, Secretaries to the Ministries, Heads of Departments and Government Officials were present at the occasion.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Courtesy: Colombo Gazette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Gotabaya Rajapaksa says most of his time is spent to deal with protests&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-srilankan-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltamilnews.net\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}