The 29 th Annual General Meeting of the Sri Lanka – Canada Business Council (SLCBC) of The Ceylon Chamber of Commerce was held recently at Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. The Chief Guest of the event was the High Commissioner for Canada, David McKinnon, who is also the Patron of the Council. SLCBC was launched on 14 th August, 1991 under the aegis of the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce. The prime objectives of the Council are promotion of trade/ investment, services, tourism and joint ventures between Sri Lanka and Canada.

Covid-19 patients reported from Divulapitiya and Peliyagoda Covid cluster- 280

Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA) has made the tourism investment process easy by streamlining the project approval process and the facilitation services provided by the Investor Relations Unit (IRU) - the unit established within SLTDA as the centralized facilitation arm for tourism investments in the country.

 Upon been elected as the Chair by acclamation, and opening the sixth session of the Committee on Social Development (CSD) of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), which was held at the United Nations Conference Centre in Bangkok from 20 to 21 October 2020, Ambassador and the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UNESCAP, Samantha K. Jayasuriya, told the UN CSD that the ongoing COVID 19 pandemic proved the need for social protection than ever before.