Sand is dredged from the sea and sprayed during reclamation work currently being carried out for the construction of US $ 1.4 billion Colombo Port City project adjacent to the Colombo Port. The Cabinet is said to have approved sweeping tax exemptions for the project, which resumed work recently, after a lapse of over 13 months. President Maithripala Sirisena’s government which came into power in January 2015, suspended the project over irregularities in the environmental certificates of the project.  (Reuters photo)