{"id":66898,"date":"2017-06-12T23:20:39","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T05:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=66898"},"modified":"2017-06-12T16:11:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T23:11:15","slug":"wonder-of-asia-back-to-square-one-again-and-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/06\/12\/wonder-of-asia-back-to-square-one-again-and-again\/","title":{"rendered":"WONDER OF ASIA\u00a0  Back to square one again and again \u2026\u2026.."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Twice The Island and Lankaweb published two opinions with photographs similar to above and hurriedly garbage was cleared.<\/p>\n<p>Again today on 12<sup>th<\/sup> June ,garbage has sprung like mushrooms ..I was also listening to the radio today about the altercation between journalists and\u00a0 tourism minister regarding the same garbage problem ,but elsewhere .Same minister often come to Galle face for his morning walk .Today he may have seen the mound and he was helpless?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66899\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sarath1306171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"681\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sarath1306171.jpg 681w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sarath1306171-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 681px) 100vw, 681px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I suggest that the journalist who confronted the minister at his house should come to Galle Face and ask why tourism minister is least bothered about the ugly garbage mountain .<\/p>\n<p>A cleaner deployed by the company owned by SLPA has stated when confronted that due to Ramazan Breakfasting in the evening daily many people gather and leave a mass of garbage and CMC is not clearing the same in time \u00a0.He \u00a0jokingly said that ,the controversial BBS monk should instigate people \u00a0to hold a Pork Barbeue in Galle Face to prevent people who come for Iftar \u00a0\u00a0to minimize garbage stewing !! That was a very racist statement to make by a fan of BBS !!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-66900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sarath1306172.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"659\" height=\"544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sarath1306172.jpg 659w, https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sarath1306172-300x248.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 659px) 100vw, 659px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can a new\u00a0\u00a0 Minister of garbage disposal  be appointed under the President who can be entrusted to make sure that Colombo City and Galle Face is kept clean all the time ?<\/p>\n<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Sarath Obeysekera Twice The Island and Lankaweb published two opinions with photographs similar to above and hurriedly garbage was cleared. Again today on 12th June ,garbage has sprung like mushrooms ..I was also listening to the radio today about the altercation between journalists and\u00a0 tourism minister regarding the same garbage problem ,but elsewhere .Same [&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-66898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66898","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=66898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}