The Excise Department yesterday denied a statement made by UNP General Secretary Tissa Attanayake which claimed that the Government had issued 2800 new liquor licences for 2009 and said that they had only renewed the existing ones.
Excise Spokesman Inspector Prabhath Jayawickrema said yesterday that the UNP General Secretary's statement was both incorrect and misleading.
Contrary to the statement Jayawickrema said that the department had only issued 40 new licences during the year 2009 and that too for Tourist Board approved hotels.
He also noted that renewing licences was an annual process.(Daily News)
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