- CEB Engineers’ Union to proceed with protest outside Norochcholai Coal Power Plant: insist coal stocks will run out on 31st December, leading to approximately 10-hour power cuts: assert the Ministry of Energy cannot take legal action against trade unionists for voicing concerns.
- Public Utilities Commission Chairman Janaka Ratnayake says the present stocks of coal will be exhausted by 2nd January 2023, and if new shipments do not reach the country, the power cuts as warned by the engineers will be a reality.
- President Ranil Wickremasinghe says land grants to plantations companies will be abolished but lands given to the people: hopes to have the activity completed by 4th February 2023.
- The Mahanayakes of the Malwatte and Asgiri Chapters say steps should be taken to reopen the Sri Lanka Buddhist and Pali University for educational activities after conducting urgent investigations into causes that led to the present situation in the University.
- SJB MP Sarath Fonseka says there is a campaign that attempts to instill fear about “born-again” Christians among majority Sinhala-Buddhists: asserts the “born-again” is a denomination of Christianity, similar to sects such as Theravada and Mahayana in Buddhism.
- President Ranil Wickremesinghe grants an year’s service extension to Army Commander Lieutenant General Vikum Liyanage with effect from 31st December 2022: also appoints General H S H Kottegoda (Rtd) as the Chancellor of the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University.
- CB Governor Nandalal Weerasinghe says India has underscored the need for “creditor equitability” from the time the “Sri Lankan government entered the provisional agreement with the IMF”: also says “we can manage without bridge financing, and that’s how we have been managing since July”: Weerasinghe has now served as Governor for nearly 9 months, but not been successful in obtaining a single dollar as a new inflow.
- Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission says if the electricity bill is increased in a way that violates the basic rights of the public, it is ready to intervene as a stakeholder, without a complaint.
- Census and Statistics Department points out that the economy has suffered a massive shock in the 3rd Quarter of 2022: decline in the industrial sector has been a massive 21.2%, while the agriculture sector suffered a decline of 1.7% and the services sector declined by 2.1%.
- South Korea Disaster Relief Foundation President Cho Sung Lea publicly reprimands the top invitee State Minister Anupa Pasqual who arrived late for a function: says if that delay had occurred in Korea, the person would have been removed from the position and deemed unsuitable.
