RANJITH SOYSA Mr Sampanathan presenting his views on the recent LG elections did cast his bonnet over the windmills with his remarks on the Eelam bud. No sensible, person will even believe that the references made by the LPPP to the proposed destructive constitution would have planted the seed of the Eelam in the minds […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera The much awaited Cabinet shuffle of the National Unity Government took place yesterday, with President Maithripala Sirisena changing six ministerial portfolios and appointing three state ministers and one deputy minister. The President, while congratulating the newly appointed Cabinet, State and Deputy Ministers, said in keeping with the message received from the electorate, […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island February 25, 2018, 9:48 pm The fallout from the local government elections has led to many questions that need to be addressed by the nation and Parliament. They relate to the fate of the so-called “unity government”, a phrase that was coined to best describe the questionable formation of the […]

KONARA WANIGASEKARA Kotte Courtesy The Island Why has Sri Lankan military attaché, Brig. P. Fernando, been recalled? Has the government gone bonkers? When did it start taking instructions from the British? Something that Dr ANS Kulasinghe told the Plant & Equipment (P&E) Engineer at Polgolla comes to mind. When did you start taking instructions from the […]

CHANDRE DHARMAWARDANA Canada Courtesy The Island According to an Island newspaper report, “responding to the Global Tamil Forum’s (GTF) plea, the South Asia Department of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) on Feb. 22 assured Surendiran that the UK took the incident ‘very seriously’ and Minister for South Asia personally got in touch with Sri Lankan […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island We witnessed the first part of the much-awaited Cabinet reshuffle yesterday. State Minister of Foreign Affairs Wasantha Senanayake lost no time in describing it as a comedy. It was a curtain raiser. We will be treated to the farce proper shortly. President Maithripala Sirisena has, with the help of Prime Minister Ranil […]

By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island February 25, 2018, 9:40 pm Mr. R. Sampanthan has let himself, his cause and his people down. I have always regarded him as the last of the old-school parliamentarians whom I used to watch as a boy, from the press gallery in the old Parliament building near Galle Face, […]

By Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror Nationalist Movement activist Gevindu Cumaratunga, in an interview with the Daily Mirror, analysed the current political situation in the country. He shared the following:- LG election formula made a serious assault on democracy People’s verdict is against Yahapalana conspirators It is a verdict against Govt ridiculing national conscience How do you […]

By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy  Adaderana A group of Sri Lankan nationals today staged a protest in front of the Palace of Westminster, the seat of the British Parliament, against the decision to recall Sri Lanka’s defence attaché in the UK, Brigadier Priyanka Fernando. The protest was organized by the organisation Patriotic Sri Lankans in Britain and was […]

මලින්ද සෙනවිරත්න ‘පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණ ප්‍රතිඵල වලින් පෙනෙන්නේ අපගේ වැඩපිළිවලට ජනතාව අකමැති බවයි. අපි එයාලගේ බලාපොරොත්තු බිඳදමලයි තියෙන්නේ. ඒ නිසා අපි තීරණය කෙරුව අපේ වැරදි නිවැරදි කරගෙන ඉදිරියට යන්න.’ මෙහෙම කියන්නේ අගමැතිතුමා. ඒ කියන්නේ එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ නායක රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ.  නිහතමානී මනුස්සයා.  වටිනා කියන මනුස්සයා.  ආඩම්බර විය යුතුයි එහෙම කෙනෙක් අපේ රටේ අගමැති වීම ගැන, […]

J.A.L. Jayasinghe Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said today that the Cabinet reshuffle was pointless as there was nothing new in it, while observing that removing the portfolio of Highways from the Minister from Kandy was a loss to the Kandy people. Speaking to the media after visiting the Sri Dalada Maligawa and […]

Alex Black  Courtesy Farmers Guardian Farmers have turned to unauthorised alternatives after the country banned glyphosate. Tea farmers in Sri Lanka were calling on the Government to reauthorise glyphosate as soaring costs, falling production and residues from alternative chemicals hit exports to key markets. The country banned glyphosate in 2015 after lobbyists blamed it for causing chronic […]

නාමල් උඩලමත්ත යුතුකම සංවාද කවය අගමැතිවරයා ඉවත් කළේ නම් තමාට එරෙහිව ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයට ගොස් එම තීන්දුව මත පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට දෝෂාභියෝගයක් ඉදිරිපත් කර තමා ධුරයෙන් නෙරපීමේ සැලසුමක් තිබූ බව ජනාධිපතිවරයා පවසා තිබේ. එවැනි දෝෂභියෝගයක් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමේ සැලැස්මක් තිබිණි යැයි විශ්වාස කළ ද එය සම්මත වීමට නම් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ 2/3ක බහුතරයක් අවශ්‍ය වෙයි. එම දෝෂාභියෝගය සඳහා එජාපයේ 106 දෙමළ සන්ධානයේ 16, […]

කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ/ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍ර‍ය ජනමාධ්‍ය එක්ක ආණ්ඩු කරන එස්මන්ඩ් වික්‍ර‍මසිංහ ගේ පුත් අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍ර‍මසිංහට සිය කැබිනට් මණ්ඩල සංශෝධනය හෝ අද ජනමාධ්‍යයට විවෘත කළ නොහැකි විය. ජනමාධ්‍යවේදියෙකුට දෑසින් බලා සටහනක් ලියන්නට අවස්ථාවක් හෝ නැතිව ලංකා ඉතිහාසයේ සිදු වූ එකම කැබිනට් සංශෝධනය ඉතිහාසයට එක්වී අවසන් ය. 2008 වසරේ එජාප නායකත්ව අර්බුදය අවස්ථාවේ […]

www.mahinda.info චීන තානාපති cheng xueyuan මැතිතුමන් හා මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමන් අතර විශේෂ හමුවක් හිටපු ජනාධිපති නිල නිවසේදී සිදුවිය.අතීතයේ සිට පැවති චීන ශ්‍රී ලංකා සබදතා පිළිබදවත් වත්මන් රජය සමග චීන රජය එලබි ගිවිසුම් පිළිබදවත් අවධානය යොමු කළ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමන් තම රටේ ජනතාවට හානියක් සිදු නොවන පරිදි ඉඩම් සංවර්ධන කටයුතු කරන ලෙසත් රජය සිදු කරන ජනතා […]

by C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy The Island February 24, 2018, 8:43 pm After the recent local government elections, political discourse has been dominated by the overwhelming victory of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna against all odds to emerge as the single largest political entity in the country. The aftershocks of that political tsunami are still continuing even as […]

 උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම අදින් පසු එළැඹෙන සියලුම දිනයන් මෛත්‍රිගෙ ආණ්ඩුවට ඉතාමත් තීරණාත්මක වන කරුණු කාරණා සැකසෙමින් පවතින මොහොතකි. එය විදෙස් මාධ්‍ය කිහිපයකද සඳහන් වීම විශේෂයකි. මෙහි ප්‍රධානම තර්කය ඔවුන් ගොඩනැඟුවේ “දේශපාලන අස්ථාවරත්වය” නිසා රට ආපස්සට යන බවක් දක්වමිනි. ඉන්දියාවේ ඊඩඥ ඩ්ඪදඤභ පුවත්පත දැක්වූ අදහස් වැදගත්ය. “ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සැබැවින්ම මේ අවස්ථාවේදී දේශපාලන අර්බුදයකය. ආණ්ඩුවේ ප්‍රධාන පාර්ශ්වකරුවන් වූ […]

Chairman, Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement Our organisation, The Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement, is extremely alarmed by secret defence reports written by our adversaries, the US, UK, which accuse our Sri Lankan Armed Forces of being responsible for the perishing of civilians during the last phases of the war with no proof whatsoever to prove such […]

During the last few months before the end of the LTTE ground force there were 3 players inside the theatre of war – the Sri Lankan Armed Forces, the LTTE and Tamil civilians and the possibility of South Indians also fighting needs to be ascertained? We know that 6261 soldiers died between 2006 and May 2009, […]

Sudath Gunasekara 23 /1 2018. An open letter to the President Dear Mr President Please take a look at the news item attached below under the caption as it is happening under your Government. ‘Following Governor’s objections Govt. pressures CBSL to endorse controversial payment platform project NPP apolitical, will promote economic growth – Harsha’ Also […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada 23 February 2018 Editor (Letters) THE OTTAWA CITIZEN Dear Editior You published Christie Blatchford’s Comment Libs have tolerance for convicted terrorists. on  page NP2 in today’s paper. Wrong! . Libs have tolerance for terrorists, period, as they have shown their promotion of the Tamil Tiger […]

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Dehiwela Mr. President, This is not the end of the world! But it is a wake up call! I am surprised at the halla baloo created around the recent MC election results. Why is that even the President is taking the results like a General election results? Obviously everyone knows that […]

Sarath Wijesinghe – former Chairman Consumer Affairs Authority- former Ambassadors to UAE and Israel Consumer in Sri Lanka Consumer in Sri Lanka is not organized as in other parts of the world in protecting and enhancing their due rights under the legal system. They accept whatever is given by the trader, manufacture, industrialist, and the […]

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island February 23, 2018, 11:14 pm The government has, under heavy pressure from the UK, carried out its decision to recall Sri Lanka’s military attache in London, Brig. Prinyankara Fernando, despite a presidential intervention. When the government announced its decision to recall the brigadier, following an incident where he allegedly made […]

By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island February 23, 2018, 10:02 pm I was born at a particular moment, 1956, into a center-left familial universe and culture. In 1956, Mervyn, aged 26, was introduced to SWRD Bandaranaike by his senior at university, Nimal Karunatilleke, a former Communist who had joined the MEP, the winning coalition of […]

By Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy The Island February 23, 2018, 11:03 pm A fortnight of jiggery-pokery in politics has now led to big talk about a Cabinet reshuffle. Can any shuffling of this set of politically crooked persons engaged in bad government bring anything good for the people? The two weeks of a power struggle within a […]

NIRANTHA EDIRISINGHE Courtesy The Island February 23, 2018, 10:06 pm So Mahinda Rajapaksa [MR] is back with a bang, a huge bang, which has left the government with no clue whatsoever of what actually hit them. After he lost the 2015 election, many a cat call emerged asking him to retire from politics, suggesting that his […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island February 23, 2018, 10:01 pm Sri Lanka’s latest global Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) ranking proves the present government has failed to make good on its main election promise. All anti-corruption circuses we were treated to during the last three years have been in vain in spite of yahapalana politicians’ rhetoric. Sri Lanka […]

එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ තරුණ සහ රැඩිකල් මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් විසින් පසුගිය දිනකදී සිරිකොත පැවති රැස්වීමකදි බහුතරයේ කැමැත්ත මත සම්මත කරගනු ලැබුවේ මසක් ඇතුලත පක්ෂයේ නායකත්වය ඇතුළු ඉහළ තනතුරු රැසක් ස්ථිර වශයෙන් වෙනස් විය යුතු අතර එසේ සිදු නොවුනහොත් සිය ආසන සංවිධායක ධුර වලින් සියළු දෙනා ඉල්ලා අස් වන බවටයි. කෙසේවෙතත් එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ නායකත්වය සජිත් ප්‍රේමදාස මහතාගේ […]

How aware are the Governments of the US & India that their two envoys are going overboard with or without their knowledge in the interference into the internal affairs of Sri Lanka? An unprecedented number of Indians have been roped into America’s diplomatic service and at times we can but wonder whether they are serving […]