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At a minimum, if you blamed both sides we may believe you. It is clear you seem like a separatist in hiding.

Tell us how patriotic you are going to be? If you have so much hatred towards sinhalese.

. It is true that LTTe did lot of damage and killed so many innocent civilians. But LTTE never fell from the sky.

Sri Lanka spent around US$ 8 million (approximately SLR 880 million) for the recent Hambantota 2018 bid to host the Commonwealth Games.
This included hundreds of millions spent on PR firms, which represented Sri Lanka for the Commonwealth Games bid, and on the 120 strong delegations to St. Kitts and Nevis, while Australia sent only 20 representatives.
Although official figures have been given for the expenses of the delegation, it is said that the price of an air ticket to St. Kitts was Rs. 150,000 which means, that nearly Rs. 16.5 million had been spent solely on air travel.
First, the government paid US$ 2.6m up front to PMPlegacy , a London-based international management consultancy firm, to administer the bid. According to financial reports of PMPlegacy, they had paid a 15 percent commission to the Sri Lankan Commonwealth Games organising committee.
Furthermore, Sri Lanka paid US$ 1 Million to an Indian based Event management Company. The country also spent lavishly on incidentals like foreign trips, visiting CGF delegations, chopper rides to and from the proposed venue faraway Hambantota, on Sri Lanka s southern coast and carousing the night away in St. Kitts.

Tell us how patriotic you are going to be?

Now Damed is looking who passed the details of his attendance to freedom party function in Tokyo..... -)))))

Betta leaks......

http://www.sundaytimes.lk/120311/index.html

Few weeks ago with dead fish ( bad omen ), last week with bananas, this week with soccer ball...next week ( ? )

by Hiran. H. Senewiratne

This year s oil import bill is estimated to top US$ 5 billion as a result of the increase of world oil prices and currency fluctuations, petroleum sector sources indicated.

Last year, the cost of oil imports hit a record high of US$ 4.63 billion, Deputy Secretary to the Treasury S.P. Attigala of the Department of Fiscal Policy of the Ministry of Finance and Planning said.

He hoped that the price stick will result in a decrease in the petroleum consumption pattern and offer some relief on the fiscal side until the situation becomes stable.

Last year s oil import bill was up 53.4% from the previous year s US$ 3.10 billion, the statistics reveal.

Sri Lanka will take a double blow from the global increase in oil prices alongside the depreciation of the rupee against the dollar.

In the context of the trade embargos faced by Iran, Sri Lanka s main oil supplier, government officials are now in crucial talks with some oil producing countries.

The average crude oil import price last year stood at US$ 108.59 per barrel against US$ 79.52 paid in 2010.

The import of a record number of motor vehicles in recent years has compounded the problem. Vehicle import cost in 2010 hit US$ 20.22 billion against the previous year s US$ 2.16 billion and US$ 3.36 billion in 2008.

.The import of a record number of motor vehicles in recent years has compounded the problem.