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Witnesses were appeared before ]<ref>{{cite web|title=Presidential Commission appointed on Central Bank bond to punish the guilty – President|url=http://www.presidentsoffice.gov.lk/?p=3778|work=Presidential Secretariat, Sri Lanka}}</ref> that Rosy Senanayake had leaked some secret information of the ] (COPE) in ] to the Perpetual Treasuries Limited (PTL).<ref>{{cite web|title=Sri Lanka bondscam: Perpetual got inside info from Central Bank, NSB: report|url=http://www.economynext.com/Sri_Lanka_bondscam__Perpetual_got_inside_info_from_Central_Bank,_NSB__report-3-8660-10.html|work=EconomyNext}}</ref> Nuwan Salgado, the Chief Dealer of PTL, revealed at the Commission that Arjun Aloysius, the Chief Executive Officer of the PTL, had received a document in 2016 related to the COPE from ''Rosy's son'', the son of Rosy Senanayake.<ref>{{cite web|title="ROSY'S SON GAVE COPE DOCUMENTS TO ARJUN ALOYSIUS" - DETAILS COME TO LIGHT AT BOND COMMISSION|url=http://www.hirunews.lk/170297/rosys-son-gave-cope-documents-to-arjun-aloysius-details-come-light-at-bond-commission|work=Hiru News}}</ref> Rosy rejected the allegations stating that she was not a Member of Parliament at the time.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rosy Senanayake rejects allegations levelled at her and son|url=http://newsfirst.lk/english/2017/09/rosy-senanayake-rejects-allegations-leveled-son/172505|work=News First}}</ref> Witnesses were appeared before ]<ref>{{cite web|title=Presidential Commission appointed on Central Bank bond to punish the guilty – President|url=http://www.presidentsoffice.gov.lk/?p=3778|work=Presidential Secretariat, Sri Lanka}}</ref> that Rosy Senanayake had leaked some secret information of the ] (COPE) in ] to the Perpetual Treasuries Limited (PTL).<ref>{{cite web|title=Sri Lanka bondscam: Perpetual got inside info from Central Bank, NSB: report|url=http://www.economynext.com/Sri_Lanka_bondscam__Perpetual_got_inside_info_from_Central_Bank,_NSB__report-3-8660-10.html|work=EconomyNext}}</ref> Nuwan Salgado, the Chief Dealer of PTL, revealed at the Commission that Arjun Aloysius, the Chief Executive Officer of the PTL, had received a document in 2016 related to the COPE from ''Rosy's son'', the son of Rosy Senanayake.<ref>{{cite web|title="ROSY'S SON GAVE COPE DOCUMENTS TO ARJUN ALOYSIUS" - DETAILS COME TO LIGHT AT BOND COMMISSION|url=http://www.hirunews.lk/170297/rosys-son-gave-cope-documents-to-arjun-aloysius-details-come-light-at-bond-commission|work=Hiru News}}</ref> Rosy rejected the allegations stating that she was not a Member of Parliament at the time.<ref>{{cite web|title=Rosy Senanayake rejects allegations levelled at her and son|url=http://newsfirst.lk/english/2017/09/rosy-senanayake-rejects-allegations-leveled-son/172505|work=News First}}</ref>


== See also == == Lack of professionalism ==
In December 2018 Rosy demonstrated her lack of knowledge in General GCE O/L Mathematics during a budget reading for the municipal council of Colombo. She was not able to pronounce the figures stated in the budget report.
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This event attracted some significant media coverable and her position as the Mayor of Colombo was questioned.


==References== ==References==

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Her WorshipRosy SenanayakeJP, UM
Rosy Senanayake (on the right) with her daughter
Mayor of Colombo
Incumbent
Assumed office
19 March 2018
Prime Minister's Spokesperson and the Deputy Head of the Prime Minister's Office
In office
15 September 2015 – 19 March 2018
Prime MinisterRanil Wickremesinghe
State Minister for Child Affairs
In office
12 January 2015 – 17 August 2015
Member of Parliament
for Colombo District
In office
10 April 2010 – 26 June 2015
Leader of the opposition of the Western Province Provincial Council
In office
2009–2010
Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Malaysia
In office
2001–2004
Personal details
Born (1958-01-05) 5 January 1958 (age 67)
Colombo, Dominion of Ceylon
NationalitySri Lankan
Political partyUnited National Party
SpouseAthula Senanayake
ChildrenKanishka
Thisakya
Radhya
OccupationPolitician
ProfessionActivist
Rosy Senanayake
TitleMrs World 1985,
Miss Asia Pacific International 1981,
Miss Sri Lanka 1980

Bernadine Rose Senanayake, JP, UM (known as Rosy Senanayake) (née Ramanayake; born 5 January 1958) is a Sri Lankan politician, current Mayoress of Colombo and Prime Minister's Spokesperson and the Deputy Head of the Prime Minister's Office for Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe She was the former state minister for child development under President Maithripala Sirisena. She is also an activist, a former beauty queen, and a current member of the Sri Lankan parliament; she was the leader of the opposition in Western Provincial Council and is the United National Party Chief Organizer for the Colombo West electorate. Senanayake has served as the Sri Lankan High Commissioner for Malaysia and was a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund. She has been an activist on several issues and an active figure in the opposition gaining much limelight.

Beauty queen

Senanayake won the first Mrs World competition in 1985. She is also a former Miss Asia Pacific International 1981 and competed as Miss Sri Lanka in Miss World 1980.

Community work

Her professional life has been devoted to promoting Sri Lanka, and particularly Sri Lankan trade, to the world. She works for the rights of women and adolescents in her country, and as a United Nations Population Fund Goodwill Ambassador she has, through the National Youth Services Council, promoted reproductive health services for young people and for migrant women workers in Sri Lanka's Free Trade Zone.

Senanayake has worked with the private sector to provide reproductive health services to employees of private companies in Sri Lanka, and recently starred in a film about reproductive health. Through her popular daytime television program 'Eliya' she has become an icon for women's and children's causes in Sri Lanka.

Rosy Senanayake officiating as Chief Guest at opening of Computer Training Center in the late 1980s - also shown Priyanke (Anthonus) de Silva.

Diplomatic work

In 1998 she was appointed as a United Nations Population Fund Goodwill Ambassador. Senanayake was appointed as Sri Lankan High Commissioner to Malaysia in 2002, which she held until 2004.

Politics

A major opposition activist, she is the Chief Organiser for the Colombo West Electorate of the United National Party. She was elected to the Western Provincial Council in 2009, topping the preferential votes list in Colombo District by obtaining 80,884 votes. There, she served as the Leader of the Opposition until being elected to the parliament in 2010 securing the fourth place in the UNP list with 66,357 preferences. In Parliament, she has raised several prominent issues such as violence against women and children, chauvinism and socio-cultural and socio-economic problems affecting Sri Lanka.

The UK-based Guardian in its edition of 14 June 2013 published an article titled, Top 10 sexist moments in politics: Julia Gillard, Hillary Clinton and more which described an encounter in 2012 between Rosy Senanayake and Kumara Welgama, Sri Lanka's transport minister, as sexist. Welgama is quoted as saying, "You are such a charming woman. I cannot explain my feelings here. But if you meet me outside Parliament, I will describe them … My thoughts are running riot … I don't want to reveal to the public." Senanayake was unimpressed, saying, "......As a woman you are not recognised as a person who has done so many portfolios, but always referred to as the beauty you were in your heyday. I consider that as a sexist remark."

Family

Daughter of a civil servant, she was educated at Embilipitiya Maha Vidayala(1969–1974) and Ferguson High School, Ratnapura. She married Athula Senanayake, an entrepreneur who is the son of Stanley Senanayake, a former Inspector General of Police and Maya Senanayake the daughter of the founder of Nalanda college P. de S. Kularatne(MP). They (Athula and Rosy) have three children Kanishka, Thisakya and Radhya.

Allegations

Witnesses were appeared before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry on Bond Issuance that Rosy Senanayake had leaked some secret information of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) in Parliament to the Perpetual Treasuries Limited (PTL). Nuwan Salgado, the Chief Dealer of PTL, revealed at the Commission that Arjun Aloysius, the Chief Executive Officer of the PTL, had received a document in 2016 related to the COPE from Rosy's son, the son of Rosy Senanayake. Rosy rejected the allegations stating that she was not a Member of Parliament at the time.

Lack of professionalism

In December 2018 Rosy demonstrated her lack of knowledge in General GCE O/L Mathematics during a budget reading for the municipal council of Colombo. She was not able to pronounce the figures stated in the budget report.

This event attracted some significant media coverable and her position as the Mayor of Colombo was questioned.

References

  1. PP Rosy Senanayake
  2. Parliament profile
  3. http://english.lankapuvath.lk/2018/03/20/rosy-becomes-first-female-mayor-of-colombo/
  4. http://www.thesundayleader.lk/2016/08/21/rosy-to-be-new-colombo-mayor/
  5. Rosy Senanayake Appointed Prime Minister's Spokesperson
  6. "Rosy send-off for Senanayake ..BY: By Ranjeetha Pakiam. – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire (July, 2004)".
  7. Rosy Senanayake Mrs World 1985
  8. UNFPA in the News: Week of
  9. most beautiful female MP of Sri Lanka
  10. Rosy Senanayake, Sri Lanka's most beautiful female Politician
  11. Saner, Emine (14 June 2013). "Top 10 sexist moments in politics: Julia Gillard, Hillary Clinton and more". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  12. The Don of Don’s
  13. A Rose by any other name
  14. "Presidential Commission appointed on Central Bank bond to punish the guilty – President". Presidential Secretariat, Sri Lanka.
  15. "Sri Lanka bondscam: Perpetual got inside info from Central Bank, NSB: report". EconomyNext.
  16. ""ROSY'S SON GAVE COPE DOCUMENTS TO ARJUN ALOYSIUS" - DETAILS COME TO LIGHT AT BOND COMMISSION". Hiru News.
  17. "Rosy Senanayake rejects allegations levelled at her and son". News First.

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