Sandun Jayawardana

Journalist / Reader / Movie Enthusiast / Views are my own

[Chandani Kirinde 🇱🇰 @ChandaniKirinde]

Women-led households fall by the wayside in Ditwah compensation drive | Print Edition - The Sunday Times, Sri Lanka https://t.co/TldtrBXgnw

[Marianne David @MarianneDavid24]

Human-Elephant Conflict: only 12 vets left to protect Sri Lanka’s wildlife, reports @Meth_Pramudi

https://t.co/Ksbf7x5yFI

[Namini Wijedasa @nimilamalee]

A part of the US$2.5 million transferred by the Treasury to scammers after a breach of the computer system at the Ministry of Finance has been traced to a bank account in the state of Delaware in the United States. By Damith Wickramasekara.

https://t.co/iJ5WpyG7i8

[Chandani Kirinde 🇱🇰 @ChandaniKirinde]

Too much speculation without verifying facts by many outlets while reporting in a highly sensitive case. Involving family members/ relatives & naming them is unethical to say the least. @zahranc

[Namini Wijedasa @nimilamalee]

And if someone didn't leak this news? What would the Finance Ministry have done?

[Harsha de Silva @HarshadeSilvaMP]

Given news alerts from various news outlets that ST is coming to Parliament COPF today on the USD 2.5m matter and multiple calls to me to confirm: Here it is. I do not know and I have not been informed. However I did not accept his refusal to be present today and request for another day. I have written to him and told him that. The Committee will meet as planned.

[Umesh Moramudali @UmeshMoramudali]

The thing is, the governments often don't feel the need to improve state capacity until a massive failure takes place. It doesn't buy you votes because improving state capacity is not often visible. But when you ignore it for years, that leaves you with a very weak state.

[Namini Wijedasa @nimilamalee]

Gentle reminder: Two more shipments from controversial coal supplier Trident Chemphar have failed, bringing the total number of consignments confirmed to be off-spec by independent accredited laboratory Cotecna to five.
https://t.co/IciVnDA2ou

[Namini Wijedasa @nimilamalee]

"We are looking at the possibility of some inside help that may have been given to an outside party to breach our system,” a senior government official told the Sunday Times. By Damith Wickremasekera, who has impeccable sources.

https://t.co/036dIWjh6U

[Namini Wijedasa @nimilamalee]

We are in the "committee" and "commission" era again. #SriLanka

[Australia in Sri Lanka @AusHCSriLanka]

The Australian High Commission and Sri Lanka's Ministry of Finance are aware of irregularities in payments owed to the Australian Government.

Sri Lankan authorities are investigating the matter and are coordinating with Australian officials who are assisting the investigation.

Australia remains committed to supporting Sri Lanka’s return to debt sustainability.

[Namini Wijedasa @nimilamalee]

Who remembers the @OfficialSLC hacking? It is still with the CID. An official who consistently maintained his innocence lost his job. Accountability stopped there. The Computer Emergency Response Team in a detailed report concluded it was classic "business email compromise".

[Nisansa de Silva @NisansaDdS]

Finally, the CID has a real cybercrime to investigate rather than people who made memes about JVPers. 😂

[Alex Crawford @AlexCrawfordSky]

Civil Defence crews were finally able to access the site where Leb journalist Amal Khalil was trapped under rubble but only hours later. They retrieved her body. Her newspaper Al Akbar has put out a video tribute. Lebanon’s Minister of Information condemned the incident describing the targeting of journalists as a blatant violation of international humanitarian law and calling for international action.

[Asela Waidyalankara @aselawaid]

High-profile public sector cybersecurity incidents in Sri Lanka (Circa 2021/2023) tend to follow a familiar script: initial shock, assurances of an “investigation,” and then… silence. Over time, they’re quietly lost to the sands of time ⏳, with little in the way of public accountability or lessons learned.

[Will Christou @will_christou]

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil was found dead after hours of searching under rubble. She was killed in an Israeli strike, after the Israeli army fired at ambulances trying to reach her, delaying her rescue.

She is the fourth journalist killed by Israel while in the field since 2 March.

She was a professional, kind and dedicated journalist, and always a pleasure to run into in the field.

[Umesh Moramudali @UmeshMoramudali]

Sri Lanka's Public Debt Office needs to have a salary scale similar to the Central Bank and hire skilled and competent professionals to do debt management. This time, we got away with USD 2.5 mil but this could be worse. PDMO capacity is a huge issue

https://t.co/8FWpkIi2Yy

[Azzam Ameen @AzzamAmeen]

Sri Lanka Treasury’s USD 2.5M cyber theft was exposed after hackers tried a similar payment linked to India. Deputy Minister Anil Jayantha said funds meant for Australia’s Export Finance Agency had been stolen after emails were hacked and payment details changed.

[Namini Wijedasa @nimilamalee]

Coalgate update: the bad coal has been causing massive problems at the Lakvijaya power plant, including a fire. And as long as it is in use, there will be headaches. #SriLanka

https://t.co/GYVCRkAGfg

[Iran Embassy in Zimbabwe @IRANinZIMBABWE]

Bad mood= strait of trump
Normal mood= strait of Hormuz
Good mood= strait of Iran