{"id":100879,"date":"2020-04-07T16:17:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T23:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=100879"},"modified":"2020-04-07T16:17:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-07T23:17:08","slug":"curfew-passes-for-employees-of-export-related-industries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/07\/curfew-passes-for-employees-of-export-related-industries\/","title":{"rendered":"Curfew passes for employees of Export related industries"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr sarath obeysekera\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>A news item today indicates that police headquarters will be issuing curfew passes for employees of companies having 50 or more workers\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Having bitter experience with area police officers in obtaining a curfew pass for myself as a CEO o export-oriented shipbuilding industry, I \u00a0have to watch and see how new procedure can help the industry<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do not think that law enforcement officers have any idea\nabout the fact that the. Companies who apply for permits and whether they are\neligible for the permits&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I sent a letter to obtain a curfew permit for one of my\nengineers who went to police in Galle &nbsp;to get a curfew permit&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A police office in Galle had sent him to MOH of Galle and get his recommendation\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He went to MOH who had no clue about export-oriented business had bluntly told him that they give permission only for food transporters etc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He told my engineer to agree in writing that when he returns\nfrom Colombo after some days of work in our yard &nbsp;he should be ready to go\non quarantine for 21 days !!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason he cited was that Galle has been so far safe and he does not want Colombians\u201d to spread Corona in the south !!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The point I am trying to make is whether anyone in the government or police or health department understands the importance of earning foreign currency to the country to buy oil, food, medicines, etc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0I fervently hope the DIG \u00a0in charge is well conversant with the importance of earning foreign currency for the country and take positive action to revive the dying industries\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera <br>\nCEO Walkers Colombo Shipyard <br>\nColombo <br>\nSri Lanka<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr sarath obeysekera\u00a0 A news item today indicates that police headquarters will be issuing curfew passes for employees of companies having 50 or more workers\u00a0 Having bitter experience with area police officers in obtaining a curfew pass for myself as a CEO o export-oriented shipbuilding industry, I \u00a0have to watch and see how new procedure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-sarath-obeysekera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}