Insight By Sunil Kumar
August 31st 2009
In Colombo, Sri Lanka yesterday a Sri Lankan reporter was sentenced  to 20 years in prison on charges of violating the country’s strict anti-terror laws. There can be no leniencies towards indicting and incarcerating through the Nation’s Justice System, anyone who violates this to the extent of publishing treasonous material which the [...]

More >

By Walter Jayawardhana
President Mahinda Rajapaksa was given a rousing welcome by the Libyan government when he arrived at Matiga Airport in Tripoli  as a special invited guest to participate in the 40th anniversary of the Libyan revolution.
Planning Minister Abdul Hafeed Al-Zlatny received the President on behalf of the Libyan government.
PPICTURES BY SUDATH SILVA
Sri Lanka [...]

More >

Dr.Reffai
Dear editor,
how come none of the papers have interviewed the people who employed these two girls? si the journalist being partial because they are just two girls from the plantain sector? or are there hidden hands preventing you all finding the truth? there isn’t even a mention to say they refused to talk to the [...]

More >

By Charles.S.Perera
As the American Ambassador to Sri Lanka Robert O’Blake was already a sympathiser of the terrorists in Sri Lanka, along with  Chilcot the  Ambassodor of UK and Eric Solheim of Norway. 
 When Robert O’Blake was promoted from his position of the American Ambassador to Sri Lanka to Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central [...]

More >

Island Editorial 01-09-09
Prabhakaran may have died a worried man in a northern swamp, but his foreign allies have not yet given up the Eelam campaign. They are striving to put the LTTE’s Plan B into action. That is to help whatever remains of the LTTE’s military wing get into the guerrilla mode and make this [...]

More >

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada
August 31, 2009
Hon. Erik Solheim
Minister of Environment & Development Cooperation
Government of Norway
Oslo,
Norway
Dear Erik:
I just came across the news item in the Sri Lanka Daily Mirror Breaking News which said:
“The government has officially protested with Norway over the comments made regarding the Sri [...]

More >