A Fast Patrol Vessel (FPV) attached to the Western Region of Sri Lanka Coast Guard arrested 02 Indian boats with a consignment over 5000kg of dried turmeric being smuggled into Sri Lanka in two occasions in consecutive days.

|2020-10-26|

Sri Lanka Coast Guard personnel deployed at Codbay fishery harbour in Trincomalee for fishing monitoring duties, arrested six fishermen with illegally caught 06 kg of dried Dolphin flesh and 12 no’s of Shark fins on 21st October 2020 during a search operation carried out on board a Multiday fishing trawler on arrival harbour. Apprehended items had been hidden in a fertilizer sack and in a secret place before they were found by the Coast Guard personnel.

|2020-10-23|

A Fast Patrol Boat (FPB) attached to the Northern Region of Sri Lanka Coast Guard recovered 05 sacks of Kerala Cannabis at North of Kovilan sea area on 11th October 2020.

|2020-10-11|

Commodore Anura Ekanayake has been appointed as the 6th Director General of Sri Lanka Coast Guard with effect from 01st October 2020. Accordingly, former Director General Rear Admiral Samantha Wimalathunge officially handed over the duties of the position to the new Director General at the Coast Guard Headquarters on 01st October 2020.

|2020-10-01|

The outgoing Director General of Sri Lanka Coast Guard Rear Admiral Samantha Wimalathunge paid a farewell call on the Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Nishantha Ulugetenne at the Naval Headquarters, on 29th September 2020.

|2020-09-29|

The outgoing Director General, Rear Admiral Samantha Wimalathunge paid a farewell call on the Defence Secretary Maj. Gen. (Retd) Kamal Gunaratne at the Ministry of Defence, on 29th September 2020.

|2020-09-29|