{"id":105598,"date":"2013-09-15T00:18:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-14T18:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=105598"},"modified":"2013-09-21T11:59:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T06:29:01","slug":"sajin-appoints-rosys-daughter-11-others-as-chogm-70k-consultants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sajin-appoints-rosys-daughter-11-others-as-chogm-70k-consultants\/","title":{"rendered":"Sajin Appoints Rosy&#8217;s Daughter, 11 Others As CHOGM 70k Consultants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">The Government has recruited several consultants to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2013 to be the \u2018face\u2019 of the summit coordination efforts in November this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_105599\" style=\"width: 297px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sajin-appoints-rosys-daughter-11-others-as-chogm-70k-consultants\/thisakya-maya-senanayake\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-105599\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105599\" class=\"size-full wp-image-105599\" title=\"Thisakya Maya Senanayake\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Thisakya-Maya-Senanayake.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"492\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Thisakya-Maya-Senanayake.jpg 287w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Thisakya-Maya-Senanayake-175x300.jpg 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 287px) 100vw, 287px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-105599\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thisakya Maya Senanayake<\/p><\/div>\n<p>12 such consultants have been hired at remuneration in the range of Rs. 70,000 each, Colombo Telegraph learns. They include male and female youngsters of between 20-26 years old sources told Colombo Telegraph. The consultants function under the office of the Monitoring MP for the Foreign Ministry and presidential close associate <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Sajin+Vaas&amp;x=16&amp;y=3\">Sajin Vaas Gunewardana<\/a><\/span>. The consultants commenced work a few months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Among the recruits are the 25 year old daughter of United National Party Parliamentarian former beauty queen and former Ambassador to Malaysia <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Rosy+Senanayake&amp;x=8&amp;y=3\">Rosy Senanayake<\/a><\/span>,Thisakya Senanayake. Thisakya is a fashion design graduate from the London College of Fashion in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Colombo Telegraph learns that the daughter of John Keells Holdings Chairman Susantha Ratnayake, Anitra is also on the list of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=CHOGM&amp;x=11&amp;y=5\">CHOGM<\/a><\/span> consultants. John Keells Holdings is heavily involved in the CHOGM organisation and has been co opted for much of the event organisation and software and hospitality management.<\/p>\n<p>It is not immediately clear what the criteria was for the selection of \u2018consultants\u2019 but it is reliably learnt that the appointments were made by Vaas Gunewardane.<\/p>\n<p>All 12 CHOGM consultants are tipped to receive diplomatic positions in Sri Lankan embassies overseas after the summit is over. The locations of the postings include Ottawa Canada and Victoria Australia, the Colombo Telegraph learns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":105599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2187,1,6969,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-most-popular","category-news","category-popular-stories","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sajin Appoints Rosy&#039;s Daughter, 11 Others As CHOGM 70k Consultants - Colombo Telegraph<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sajin-appoints-rosys-daughter-11-others-as-chogm-70k-consultants\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sajin Appoints Rosy&#039;s Daughter, 11 Others As CHOGM 70k Consultants - 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