National Lotteries Board (NLB) and Development Lotteries Board (DLB) sweep tickets will not be sold by the

dealers' islandwide from Thursday, August 28, until the Finance Ministry increases their sale commission, the All Island Lottery Dealers' Society (AILDS) said. Finance Ministry's failure to mediateontheproblems in the lotteries industry is to bring the country's lottery sale to a complete standstillcosting the state more than Rs.35 million daily to the NLB and DLB in sales according to the AILDS sources. SRI LANKA (May 3, 2008) -- Three cases were filed against the National Lotteries Board Ratnapura Branch Manager for misusing Rs. 1.1 million of public property by producing forged cheques to the Lotteries Board, Sri Lankas Daily News newspaper reported COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (March 16, 2008) --The National Lotteries Board (NLB) launched the New Airport Lottery recently to raise funds to construct the Weerawila airport. SRI LANKA (January 6, 2008) The Lotteries Boards decision to have tickets printed by a private printer has angered employees of the State Printing Corporation (SPC) who have called on authorities to stop the move. The head of HR at NLB can take the initiative to introduce an appropriate Performance Management Strategy within the organization by Setting up evaluation periods, rating mechanisms, Goal setting with revisions Facilitates milestones and goal guides related to organizational goals, Supports employee competency evaluations, Supports value assessments at individual employee levels, Provision for additional accomplishments made by the employee, Supports for self appraisals, Final summary which combines goals, competencies, values and additional accomplishments, Identification of training requirements, Ability to access history evaluation with drill down facilities up to the employee profiles