{"id":124439,"date":"2022-04-18T16:22:09","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T23:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=124439"},"modified":"2022-04-18T16:22:09","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T23:22:09","slug":"president-appoints-17-new-cabinet-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/04\/18\/president-appoints-17-new-cabinet-ministers\/","title":{"rendered":"President appoints 17 new Cabinet ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>The new Cabinet Ministers have sworn in before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the President\u2019s House in Colombo this morning (18).&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Accordingly, the President has appointed 17 new cabinet ministers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the President\u2019s Media Division stated there were no changes in the portfolios held by the President, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, Foreign Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris and Finance Minister Ali Sabry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile the PMD said that the President\u2019s address to the new Cabinet will be telecast at 7.30 pm today (18) on all television and radio channels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See the full list of new ministers below:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Dinesh Gunawardena \u2013 Minister of Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provicnial Councils and Local Government&nbsp;<\/li><li>Douglas Devananda \u2013 Minister of Fisheries&nbsp;<\/li><li>Dr. Ramesh Pathirana \u2013 Minister of Education and Plantation Industries&nbsp;<\/li><li>Prasanna Ranatunga \u2013 Minister of Public Security and Tourism&nbsp;<\/li><li>Dilum Amunugama \u2013 Minister of Transport and Industries&nbsp;<\/li><li>Kanaka Herath \u2013 Minister of Highways&nbsp;<\/li><li>Vidura Vickramanayake \u2013 Minister of Labour<\/li><li>Janaka Wakkumbura &#8211; Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation&nbsp;<\/li><li>Shehan Semasinghe \u2013 Minister of Trade and Samurdhi Development&nbsp;<\/li><li>Mohan Priyadarshana de Silva \u2013 Minister of Water Supplies&nbsp;<\/li><li>Wimalaweera Dissanayake \u2013 Minister of Wildlife and Forest Conservation&nbsp;<\/li><li>Kanchana Wijesekara \u2013 Minister of Power and Energy&nbsp;<\/li><li>Thenuka Vidanagamage \u2013 Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs&nbsp;<\/li><li>Dr. Nalaka Godahewa \u2013 Minister of Mass Media<\/li><li>Prof. Channa Jayasumana \u2013 Minister of Health&nbsp;<\/li><li>Naseer Ahamed \u2013 Minister of Environment&nbsp;<\/li><li>Pramitha Bandara Tennakoon \u2013 Minister of Ports and Shipping&nbsp;<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana The new Cabinet Ministers have sworn in before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the President\u2019s House in Colombo this morning (18).&nbsp;&nbsp; Accordingly, the President has appointed 17 new cabinet ministers. However, the President\u2019s Media Division stated there were no changes in the portfolios held by the President, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, Foreign Minister Prof. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124439","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=124439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}