{"id":95362,"date":"2019-11-18T15:49:06","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T22:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=95362"},"modified":"2019-11-18T15:49:06","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T22:49:06","slug":"presidential-secretary-p-b-jayasundera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2019\/11\/18\/presidential-secretary-p-b-jayasundera\/","title":{"rendered":"PRESIDENTIAL SECRETARY- P B JAYASUNDERA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><strong data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">By M D P DISSANAYAKE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Dr\nP B Jayasundera brings three vital skills.&nbsp; Financial management, Economic\nPolicy implementation and Public Administration with extensive knowledge of\nFinancial Regulations (FR).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past, he has successfully managed Spending against Budget. \u00a0But now as Presidential Secretary, he extends his arms right across. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He will not allow distributing, for example, SIL REDI during an election campaign even if the President wishes to do so. The President will have a Peace of Mind with PBJ in charge of the machine<strong> so that his attention could be diverted to drive his Policies. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this role,\u00a0 the person must be a Neutral Advisor, who cannot be bullied around. In this role, he or she must be a Protector of the Office of the Presidency.\u00a0 In this role, he needs to ensure<strong> the Funds of the State are not released Light Heartedly.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By M D P DISSANAYAKE Dr P B Jayasundera brings three vital skills.&nbsp; Financial management, Economic Policy implementation and Public Administration with extensive knowledge of Financial Regulations (FR). In the past, he has successfully managed Spending against Budget. \u00a0But now as Presidential Secretary, he extends his arms right across. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0He will not allow distributing, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dr-m-d-p-dissanayake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95362","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=95362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}