{"id":66686,"date":"2017-06-06T22:37:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T04:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=66686"},"modified":"2017-06-06T15:28:53","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T22:28:53","slug":"ministers-are-changed-and-what-is-the-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/06\/ministers-are-changed-and-what-is-the-result\/","title":{"rendered":"MINISTERS ARE\u00a0 CHANGED AND WHAT IS THE RESULT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>I am bit confused about the\u00a0 shuffling of ministers .I am sure that HE and PM wanted a change for the betterment of the country and made the reshuffle like a pack of cards.When such shuffle \u00a0takes place people are supposed to see a visible tangible change . I pass the entrance of the foreign ministry and see the shining banner of the new minister<\/p>\n<p>I cannot see any interview given by the new ministers in TV expressing their opinions and proposals to change .I cannot see the change of attitude of the new chairmen who have been appointed at the helm, I see photos of the new chairman of SLPA ( who I respect more than the three predecessors \u00a0.You know why ?because I went to meet all three of them during last 4 years and they has no clue about port development !)<\/p>\n<p>One chairman almost kicked me out of the office when I proposed privatization of oil bunkering in Hambantota<\/p>\n<p>Next interim chairman who was a mortgage consultant from UK had no clue about port operations I hope that\u00a0 the new chairman \u00a0will do something to develop main three ports in Galle .Trinco and Colombo<\/p>\n<p>New chairman shall \u00a0do a walk through the port form Fort to Modera and order the officers to put the port in order ,House keeping and stop adhoc construction everywhere<\/p>\n<p>Many workers doing nothing but loitering and gates are over manned .I \u00a0now pay 1100 Rs for the annual, pass against 2000 rs paid last year (Brain child of our cricket captain who tried googley and increased the entry permit cost 5 fold \u00a0!)<\/p>\n<p>I pass through the port daily and what I see the new banners with shining photos of the new minister and the chairman of the Port .I also see that banners are originated by two unions who were one time on logger heads !They may want some favours<\/p>\n<p>Today I was telling my senior driver that Philip Gunwardane ruined the port by nationalising!<\/p>\n<p>God bless the Port<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera I am bit confused about the\u00a0 shuffling of ministers .I am sure that HE and PM wanted a change for the betterment of the country and made the reshuffle like a pack of cards.When such shuffle \u00a0takes place people are supposed to see a visible tangible change . I pass the entrance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66686","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=66686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}