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Winds of change
The winds of change do blow heavily about politicos in general and newly occupied ministerial seats in particular and this certainly seemed to be the case where JVP Minister Vijitha Herath was concerned. Minister Herath turned up a good one hour late at a cultural function, emulating those famous Presidential delays, but the minister went a step ahead, choosing to refrain from apologising for his delay.

As if to prove just how adapted the JVP was becoming Mr. Herath repeated his unpunctuality by arriving at yet another function late, and this time the compere welcomed him, inadvertently, as the Minister of Culture and Hela Urumaya, instead of Minister of Cultural Affairs and Jathika Urumaya (National Heritage).

A broom for a T56!
Having spent a good number of their childhood and youthful years fighting for 'liberation', four of the Karuna - LTTE damsels who are now back again in the LTTE fold, are reported to have begged for 'liberty in India' while staying at a luxury hotel in Colombo along with the renegade militant and his spouse. Pleading with the LTTE renegade leader's wife, Vithyamadi to assist them to flee to India to start a 'new life' the LTTE belles had however snorted at the alternative suggested by Vithyamathi - to go to the Middle East to work as housemaids. Well, a T 56 is certainly different from a broom !

Discovery causes further delay
Two top officials representing a ministry of which the portfolio is held by the President were heading for a conference in Kilinochchi this week and when they were about to leave the last exit point after undergoing the security checks by the LTTE at Puliyankulam they were told to produce the vehicle registration papers.

As they did not possess the papers they said the vehicle belonged to the ministry, but one of the helpers had a close look at the windscreen and observed the photocopy of the revenue licence pasted on it to remark 'so this is from the President's ministry'. The discovery further delayed the officials.

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