{"id":155956,"date":"2026-04-29T13:36:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=155956"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:36:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:36:02","slug":"treasury-secretary-will-be-a-no-show-at-the-copf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2026\/04\/29\/treasury-secretary-will-be-a-no-show-at-the-copf\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasury Secretary will be a \u2018no show\u2019 at the CoPF"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Hiru News<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Treasury Secretary Harshana Suriyapperuma informed the Committee on Public Finance in writing that he will not appear before the committee tomorrow (30).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chairman of the Committee on Public Finance, Member of Parliament Dr. Harsha de Silva, confirmed this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the meeting was scheduled for tomorrow, the Treasury Secretary officially communicated his inability to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Hiru News Treasury Secretary Harshana Suriyapperuma informed the Committee on Public Finance in writing that he will not appear before the committee tomorrow (30). The Chairman of the Committee on Public Finance, Member of Parliament Dr. Harsha de Silva, confirmed this. Although the meeting was scheduled for tomorrow, the Treasury Secretary officially communicated his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption-and-bribery","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155956","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=155956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155957,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155956\/revisions\/155957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}