Ranjith Soysa Media Spoekman For Global Sri Lankan Forum 1 st June 2016 . Within a very short period of seven years, the politicians have forgotten that they are today living in peace, in particular in the North and the East provinces because of the sacrifices of the heroic armed forces. The NPC Chief Ministers […]

By Ranjit Abeywardena There is an easy solution to make the Sri Lankan Airlines viable again! The government needs to be thinking seriously about making it a charter service to ferry American and British politicians, government and military officials between Colombo, London and Washington. Judging by the current volume of traffic, the Colombo-London-Washington route is […]

ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න          මෙය ජාතික විමුක්ති අරගලයකින් සමාජවාදය උදාකිරීමේ උපායමාර්ගික ගමන්මඟ අනුව ක්‍රියාවට නැගූ ජවිපෙ 2වැනි කැරැල්ලේදී ඝාතන 41ක් සිදුකල අයෙකුගේ කථාවකි. කොන්දේසි විරහිතව අසීමිත ප්‍රේමයකින් ජවිපෙට සහ ජවිපෙ අරමුණවලට ආදරයකල ඒ ප්‍රේමය නිසාම පොදු මිනිස් සංහතියේ සතුරන්ට එරෙහිව උතුරායන වෛරයකින් පිරීගිය මිනිසෙකුගේ කථාවකි. ඒ ආදරය මෙන්ම වෛරයද ජවිපෙ ඉහළ නායකත්වයේ දෘෂ්ටිමය මඟපෙන්වීමකට […]

Janaka Perera  දියුණු යයි සම්මත බටහිර ජාතියක් සතුන් සමග සංසර්ගයේ යෙදෙන බව අසා තිබේද? එහෙත් එය ඇත්තකි.  ඒ ජාතිය නම් සාමයේ නාමයෙන් අපට දෙමළ කොටින් සමග ‘සහවාසයේ’ යෙදෙන්නට ආරාධනය කල  නෝවීජියානුවන්ය.   මේ බව මුලින්ම හෙලිකලේ ඔස්ලෝ නුවර පලවන The Journal නම් විද්‍යා සඟරාවයි. වසර 28කට පසු  නෝවීජියානු රජය මගින් සතුන් සමග සංසර්ගයේ යෙදීම දෙවන වරටත් 2010 […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge   He who looks like a butterfly Stings like a bee No scares in his face He is the champion of champions When he was drafted He refused to kill the yellow man He said they did not call me a nigger So I will not go to Nam   He defeated […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today  Media is the creation of just about anything in an organized society which encompasses experiences and sensations at different social levels where discrepancies and dissimilarities create or expose of media institutions, media industries or individuals. Its ultimate character is influenced by the interaction of the media organisation with […]

By Ravi Ratnasabapathy Courtesy CAPX June 03 (CAPX) Last week, the Sun newspaper in the UK claimed that a factory in Sri Lanka that produces a line of clothing for a popular singer Beyonce is using sweatshop ‘slaves’. The report attracted little interest in Sri Lanka, partly because attention was more focused on the devastating floods […]

By ERIC LICHTBLAU and MONICA DAVEYMAY 13, 2016 Courtesy nytimes.com WASHINGTON — Experts cannot agree on what to call a recent rise in homicides, much less its cause, but new data on Friday that showed a sharp spike in homicide rates in more than 20 cities rekindled debate over whether it was time for alarm. The data showed particularly […]

Concerned Ex Dockyard Worker If you could  remember the day on which when the new  CEO walked into this company premises in 1994, which was under Japanese Management, discipline was absolutely at a low ebb and company burdened with heavy debts, workers not performing to their fullest capacity, trade unions playing hell, company continuing business […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati, June 4: The Narayana Super-specialty Hospital has offered the Journalist Privilege Cards to the member-journalists of Guwahati Press Club.  Over 175 health cards were distributed among the scribes in a function held today at GPC auditorium. Senior officials of the north Guwahati based hospital including Amit G. Choudhury, Shantanu Bhattacharjee with […]

By Ven. K. Ariyarathana “Those eight individuals praised by the virtuous, [(or) Those individuals numbering one hundred and eight praised by the wise] those couples are four (in number); those disciples of the Enlightened One are worthy of offerings;” ……….. (SN, 11.1) Noble Individuals are categorised in different ways in different contexts. Most frequently, we […]

Courtesy The Island June 4, 2016, 7:06 pm N. Kodituwakku & Co., Attorney-at-law (SL) & Solicitor (UK) has issued notice on President Maithripala Sirisena urging him to “stop the abuse of tax revenue with permits issued  to MPs granting full waiver of all forms of tax normally charged on motor vehicles”. Attorney Nagananda Kodituwakku says […]

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Prof.Hudson McLean Norway denies official recognition to Buddhism while preaching freedom of religion & human rights in Sri Lanka Posted on June 2nd, 2016  Shenali D Waduge Although I have not been active as a scribe, I do read LankaWeb daily, and noted content. Since I do not reside in Sri Lanka, after the new […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty  FEATURES THE ISLAND – JUNE 1, 2016 May 31, 2016, 7:22 pm The Hansard of September 3, 2015 under the heading “DETERMINATION UNDER THE CONSTITUTION: NUMBER OF MINISTERS OF NATIONAL GOVERNMENT”, cites the following Resolution: “Whereas the United National Party which obtained the highest number of seats in Parliament has formed a […]

Courtesy Adaderana June 3, 2016  06:02 pm  The US State Department says that Sri Lankan security services’ focus on a possible LTTE resurgence affected the government’s attention to emerging threats, such as reports of Sri Lankan foreign terrorist fighters joining the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The US State Department on Thursday issued […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Main Issue After returning from  UK leaving a very lucrative job in Oil and Gas Industry to work in Sri Lanka I  sought  approval from SLPA to establish a shipyard in Galle Harbour to undertake repair and building of Yachts ,Pleasure Crafts and other small boats ,under the Master Plan of Galle […]

ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න ශ්‍රී ලංකාව වනාහි සියලු සම්පතින් අනුන අපූර්තම නිර්මාණයක් ලෙස හැදින්විය හැකි රටකි. පුරාතනයේ වෙළදාමේ යෙදුන වෙළදුන් මෙම දිවයින සෙරන්ඩිප් යනුවෙන් නම් කළේය. ග්‍රීක සහ රෝම වෙළදුන් විසින් මෙය තැප්රොබේන් නම් විය. පසුකලෙක සිලෝන්ද විය. එවැනි අභිමානවත් සහ පෞඬ ඉතිහාසයක් ඇති රට මෑතකදී පටන් ‘ජෝන් බාස්ට’ ගොසිනි.  ජනතාව බොහෝ දේශපාලඥයින්ට කියන්නේ පගාකාරයා කියාය. දූෂකයා […]

Shenali D Waduge When Norway returns to the political scene and little noise is made either people have forgotten Norway’s illicit past or people’s views are being shut out by a sepoy media that is now realizing what ‘no media freedom’ really means. Be that as it may, this evangelical preaching nation has returned to […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS  The Government of Sri Lanka defeated the LTTE in Eelam war IV on 18th May 2009.  There was a spontaneous outpouring of joy  at the crushing defeat of the ‘invincible army’. People showed their joy island wide. The entire island erupted in jubilation.  On 22nd May an estimated 150,000 people converged on Colombo […]

Sarath Wijesinghe Solicitor / Attorney- at- law and a former Ambassador  Magistrate as an owner of an Elephant Tilina Gamage” is a pleasant young non-controversial magistrate, who was charged with public property act, and for the possession of a baby elephant valued at 6.9 million allegedly without a valid licence. It is also alleged that […]

Vajiragnana Don’t be so pedantic, today we are a nation of bastards”! There’s no one with pure Sinhala blood” running in our veins. From the time the colonists landed the country they screwed” the natives spare-ring none! It is too evident even in the same family you fine siblings of different skin tones! So, it’s […]

මහ බැංකුවේ ධනය තම සුඛවිහරණය මහ බැංකුවේ ධනය තම සුඛවිහරණය සඳහා යොදා ගත් එමෙන්ම මහ බැංකු බැදුම්කර ක‍්‍රියාදාමය තම බෑණාගේ සමාගමට මුදල් ඉපයීම සඳහා වූ උල්පතක් බවට පත්කර දුන්, 2016 ජූනි 30 වැනිදායින් ධුර කාලය අවසන් වන මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයා යළි පත් කරන්නේදැයි ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා ජනාධිපති මෛත‍්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන […]

Arjuna Mahendran spends in millions – says Wimal Weerawansa. ඒ කාලේ බේබිලාට හෙලිකොප්ටර් කියපු අය අද නෑ… වත්මන් මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයා ගැන විමල් වීරවංශ අදහස් දක්වමින් පවසයි.

KAMALIKA  PIERIS The LTTE delayed its defeat for four months, In Eelam War IV, by hiding behind 200,000 Tamils as hostages. These hostages were taken by the LTTE first to Mulangavil, then Kilinochchi, Dharmapuram, Vishvamadu and finally Puthumathalan, from where they were rescued by the army. The hostages said that they were forced to leave […]

Shenali D Waduge When out of 19 members selected by the Prime Minister only two (Kushan de Alwis & M K Nadeeka Damayanthi opposes the removal of Article 9  it revealed beyond doubt the objective. 70% comprise Buddhists in Sri Lanka and only 2 stood for the sacrosanct status of the country’s historical ethos. The […]

Mahinda Weerasinghe  excerpt from his book Origin of Species According to the Buddha”  Godage Publishers By the time Darwin came to formulate his On the Origin of  Species, somewhat similar ideas were already simmering in the Western world. Yet, to confront the believers of the Good Book with such hearsay just a few years before, would […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS LTTE committed  many serious war crimes during the Eelam wars. Here are some of them.  To start with, there are prohibitions regarding recruitment into an army. The Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict  forbids the enlistment of anyone under the age of 18 into the armed forces. According to […]

Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the World Trade Organization Geneva Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the WTO in Geneva Ambassador R.D.S. Kumararatne has presented to Mr. Roberto Azevêdo, Director-General of WTO the Instrument of Acceptance of the Protocol on Trade Facilitation on 31st May 2016. Sri Lanka is the 81st Member to deposit its Instrument […]

By Rohana R. Wasala (This article was recently published in two parts in The Island daily (Sri Lanka) under the title ‘Carlo Fonseka’s ESSAYS OF A LIFETIME” – A personal appreciation’ as a tribute to the distinguished Sri Lankan  it is about. I am happy to share it with Lankaweb readers, under a new title as […]