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Thursday, April 30, 2015
‘Rivira’ penniless: Mahinda gives cash to pay salaries!
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
‘Rivira’ and ‘The Nation’ newspapers that had been run with state
advertisements and Ravi Wijeratne’s contributions during the Rajapaksa
regime as it had a very low circulation have now come to a state in
which it is unable to pay even the employees’ salaries, say sources at
these newspapers.
Although the real owners of this newspaper are the Rajapaksa family, it
had namesake directors in Nilanka Rajapaksa and Prasanna Wickramasuriya,
about whom there is no news now. With the new government taking office,
Wickramasuriya fled to the US, and has changed residence from Atlanta
to Seattle. Wijeratne has refused to fund the payment of the salaries as
his businesses have suffered a setback.
Meeting the former president, ‘Rivira’ editor Sisira Paranatantri
explained the situation to him and told him about the disadvantage of
closing a pro-Rajapaksa newspaper. Rajapaksa has promised Paranatantri
that he would help him to pay the salaries.
Accordingly, an agent of the Rajapaksas had gone to the Meegoda home of
Paranatantri and handed him over cash to pay the salaries for this
month. Since Rajapaksa is giving money only to pay the salaries, all the
overtime has been curtailed. The management has also decided to suspend
payment of commission money to its agents.
Wednesday, 29 April 2015
‘Rivira’ and ‘The Nation’ newspapers that had been run with state
advertisements and Ravi Wijeratne’s contributions during the Rajapaksa
regime as it had a very low circulation have now come to a state in
which it is unable to pay even the employees’ salaries, say sources at
these newspapers.
Although the real owners of this newspaper are the Rajapaksa family, it
had namesake directors in Nilanka Rajapaksa and Prasanna Wickramasuriya,
about whom there is no news now. With the new government taking office,
Wickramasuriya fled to the US, and has changed residence from Atlanta
to Seattle. Wijeratne has refused to fund the payment of the salaries as
his businesses have suffered a setback.
Meeting the former president, ‘Rivira’ editor Sisira Paranatantri
explained the situation to him and told him about the disadvantage of
closing a pro-Rajapaksa newspaper. Rajapaksa has promised Paranatantri
that he would help him to pay the salaries.
Accordingly, an agent of the Rajapaksas had gone to the Meegoda home of
Paranatantri and handed him over cash to pay the salaries for this
month. Since Rajapaksa is giving money only to pay the salaries, all the
overtime has been curtailed. The management has also decided to suspend
payment of commission money to its agents.
