{"id":125546,"date":"2022-05-20T15:12:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-20T22:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=125546"},"modified":"2022-05-20T15:12:54","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T22:12:54","slug":"nine-more-cabinet-ministers-sworn-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/05\/20\/nine-more-cabinet-ministers-sworn-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Nine more cabinet ministers sworn in"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Nine more cabinet ministers sworn in (English)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B8WdcsNuJJw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nine more Members of Parliament were sworn in as Cabinet Ministers this morning, the President\u2019s Media Division says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They took oaths before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the President\u2019s House in Colombo this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The newly-appointed ministers are as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1. Nimal Siripala de Silva \u2013 Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2. Susil Premajayanth \u2013 Minister of Education<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>3. Keheliya Rambukwella \u2013 Minister of Health<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>4. Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe \u2013 Minister of Justice, Prison Affairs and Constitutional Reforms<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>5. Harin Fernando \u2013 Minister of Tourism and Lands<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>6. Ramesh Pathirana \u2013 Minister of Plantation Industry<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>7. Manusha Nanayakkara \u2013 Minister of Labour and Foreign Employment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>8. Nalin Fernando \u2013 Minister of Trade, Commerce and Food Security<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>9. Tiran Alles \u2013 Minister of Public Security<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Four other parliamentarians were appointed to Cabinet ministerial portfolios on the 14th of May. They are;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2022 Prof. G.L. Peiris \u2013 Minister of Foreign Affairs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2022 Dinesh Gunawardena \u2013 Minister of Public Administration, Home Affairs, Provincial Councils and Local Government<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2022 Prasanna Ranatunga \u2013 Minister of Urban Development and Housing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u2022 Kanchana Wijesekara \u2013 Minister of Power and Energy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>Meanwhile, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who addressed the parliament yesterday, said a decision was taken that the new ministers would not be drawing their ministerial salaries once appointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana Nine more Members of Parliament were sworn in as Cabinet Ministers this morning, the President\u2019s Media Division says. They took oaths before President Gotabaya Rajapaksa at the President\u2019s House in Colombo this morning. The newly-appointed ministers are as follows: 1. Nimal Siripala de Silva \u2013 Minister of Ports, Shipping and Aviation 2. Susil [&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-125546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125546","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=125546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}