21/03/2010 – The Nation
Drug addiction to reach epic proportions
...Statistics obtained from the National Dangerous Drug Control Board indicate that there are 37,542 drug users in Sri Lanka. Out of that, 24,662 drug users are from the Western Province. What is alarming is that 17,408 of the drug users, who amount to almost 50% of the total drug users in the country, are from the city of Colombo...
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24/03/2010 – Daily News
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 Minister of Justice... Moragoda officially launched the official website of Minister of Public Recreations and Sports Gamini Lokuga...at the Olympic House, Colombo...
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24/03/2010 - Lanka Business on Line
Prerequisites for making Sri Lanka an energy hub
...As Minister... Moragoda stated when introducing the Public Utilities Commission Bill in Parliament in... 2002: A power utility that only delivers electricity part of the day, and even then unreliably, causes businesses... to buy generators to compensate for what the utility does not deliver. This adds to costs, disadvantaging small business, big businesses, and households, alike...
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25/03/2010 – Daily News
Program to build 50 new courts
(by Chamikara Weerasinghe)
...Justice... Ministry has launched a program to build 50 new court complexes... to enable the public to get legal services without difficulties... Ministry has allocated Rs 500 million for the program on the directions of Justice... Minister... Moragoda...
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25/03/2010 – Daily FT
The General Election and people's rights
People must have a right to information regarding government business that is not classified
(by Nanda Godage)
Merely saying that the Tamil people are also our people is not enough; they must themselves feel that they are also Sri Lankans and that this is also their country where they can live as equal citizens in dignity and be in the decision-making process at all levels. In this regard, the initiative of Minister Milinda Moragoda to call for the reintroduction of the Equal Opportunities Bill... is most timely...
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26/03/2010 – Daily News
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 Tamil Artistes... met Justice... Minister... Moragoda at his Colombo office recently... Society President Kalaichelvan felicitating Minister... Moragoda with a golden shawl...
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28/03/2010 - Sunday Island
A two-third Majority to achieve what?
(by K. Godage)
...The third initiative of Minister Moragoda is the call for the resurrection of the Administration of Justice Law... for the administration of justice... A Law to provide for the establishment and constitution of a new system of courts for the administration of justice... Today there is a discernible lack of confidence in our entire legal system; it is absolutely vital that a sense of confidence in our courts be restored, that due process prevails and above all that we have the rule of law...
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28/03/2010 - Sunday Island
Editorial - Moderation must be the name of the game
... It is freely conceded that Minister Milinda Moragoda played a very useful role in getting the tourism industry kick-started after its long recession. He hired experienced and capable professionals like former Ambassador Bernard Goonatillake to head the Sri Lanka Tourist Promotion Board and enlisted the support of capable people from within the industry itself to revive the industry. A great deal of money was spent in developing the concept of Sri Lanka being a ``Small Miracle"... did it make sense to rubbish a catchy slogan intended to attract more tourists to Sri Lanka... why did a minister who was doing a good job in tourism moved to justice and law reforms?...
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28/03/2010 - Sunday Leader
Milinda Moragoda Speaks Out
(by R. Wijewardene)
 To provide some respite from the frustrating futility of our current political system, this week The Sunday Leader sat down for a cup of tea with one of the few politicians in the country who has attempted to make policy not giant cut-outs of himself, the heart of his campaign...
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29/03/2010 – The Island
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 Justice and Law Reforms Minister... Moragoda congratulates newly elected BASL President... at the 36th Annual Convocation of the BASL...
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