Sri Lanka Transport Board (SLTB) has commenced a limited bus service between Jaffna and Colombo via the A-9, Jaffna-Kandy main highway, the Governor of the Northern Province, Major General G.A. Chandrasiri announced.
Commencing the service, four buses, carrying 175 passengers to Medawachchiya, left Jaffna yesterday (01.08.09). The SLTB has provided additional transportation to the passengers from Medawachchiya to Colombo. Another group of 200 passengers is to arrive in Colombo today. Read more ...
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
Colombo-Jaffna bus service soon
Jaffna luxury bus service will be launched along the A9 road soon, Transport Minister Dullas Alahapperuma told parliament yesterday that .
The Minister made this point in response to a statement made by UNP MP Edward Gunasekera that 200 buses were to be leased by the Sri Lanka Central Transport Board to operate in Jaffna. Minister Alhaperuma said the decision to lease buses was taken in a bid to reduce the burden on the Treasury.
The Minister also said it would take at least one year for the Yaldevi train to resume normal operations.
He also told the House that the Central Bus stand in Jaffna would be developed as a model bus stand.
He said the Jaffna Bus stand was adjudged the third best Bus stand in the country at a competition conducted by the SLCTB recently. Read more ...
The Minister made this point in response to a statement made by UNP MP Edward Gunasekera that 200 buses were to be leased by the Sri Lanka Central Transport Board to operate in Jaffna. Minister Alhaperuma said the decision to lease buses was taken in a bid to reduce the burden on the Treasury.
The Minister also said it would take at least one year for the Yaldevi train to resume normal operations.
He also told the House that the Central Bus stand in Jaffna would be developed as a model bus stand.
He said the Jaffna Bus stand was adjudged the third best Bus stand in the country at a competition conducted by the SLCTB recently. Read more ...
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Yal Devi to run to Thandikulam on June 6
"After a lapse of 30 years recalling nostalgic memories for Tamils in the North, the Northern train Yal Devi will run beyond Vavuniya up to Thandikulam on June 6th . The railway track and the signal network has already been completed up to Thandikulam". This was stated by Minister of Transport, Dallas Alahapperuma today.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa speaking at the inauguration to restore the rail track to Jaffna stated recently:
"The Jaffna people should consider the sound of the Yal Devi as the sound of the Cuckoo bird that precedes the arrival of the Northern Spring. It was on April 23, 1956 that the Yal Devi was introduced on the Northern Railway Line.
How many songs and poems were composed about the Yal Devi since the termination of its run? Why could not our artistes fail to avoid Yal Devi when composing poems and songs on Sinhala – Thamil friendship? I remember our Governor of the North Central Province also lamenting about the Yal Devi in one of his popular songs.
It was the intention of the terrorists to break up the friendly relations among our communities by attacking the Yal Devi.
They knew that our friendship would remain strong as long as the Yal Devi ran. During this time there was good friendship among our people in the northern and southern ends of the country. Read more ...
President Mahinda Rajapaksa speaking at the inauguration to restore the rail track to Jaffna stated recently:
"The Jaffna people should consider the sound of the Yal Devi as the sound of the Cuckoo bird that precedes the arrival of the Northern Spring. It was on April 23, 1956 that the Yal Devi was introduced on the Northern Railway Line.
How many songs and poems were composed about the Yal Devi since the termination of its run? Why could not our artistes fail to avoid Yal Devi when composing poems and songs on Sinhala – Thamil friendship? I remember our Governor of the North Central Province also lamenting about the Yal Devi in one of his popular songs.
It was the intention of the terrorists to break up the friendly relations among our communities by attacking the Yal Devi.
They knew that our friendship would remain strong as long as the Yal Devi ran. During this time there was good friendship among our people in the northern and southern ends of the country. Read more ...
Friday, April 24, 2009
UNHCR starting emergency airlift of relief to Sri Lanka
The United Nations refugee agency said on Friday that it was starting an emergency airlift of tents and other supplies to Sri Lanka, where tens of thousands of people have fled fighting in the northeast.
The airlift, which could begin as early as this weekend, will carry 5,000 tents suitable for families and other items from the agency's stockpile in Dubai to the capital Colombo. Read more ...
The airlift, which could begin as early as this weekend, will carry 5,000 tents suitable for families and other items from the agency's stockpile in Dubai to the capital Colombo. Read more ...
UN appeals for funds to relieve Sri Lanka civilian plight
COLOMBO, 23 April 2009: The UN today issued an urgent appeal for funds to meet the critical needs of an exodus of thousands of people who are fleeing fighting.
Speaking from Colombo after returning from camps in the town of Vavuniya where around 80,000 exhausted civilians who escaped the combat zone are being held, the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator in Sri Lanka said that teams are scrambling to feed, clothe, shelter, and provide water to “crowds of weary and hungry people.” More ...
Speaking from Colombo after returning from camps in the town of Vavuniya where around 80,000 exhausted civilians who escaped the combat zone are being held, the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator in Sri Lanka said that teams are scrambling to feed, clothe, shelter, and provide water to “crowds of weary and hungry people.” More ...
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