Archive for December, 2016
Thursday, December 22nd, 2016
By A Concerned Group of Sri Lankans Farewell to Alms We are a group of persons of different ethnic groups and religious faiths several of whom have lived in the UK for 30 years or more. Some of us have had close contacts with high commissioners and other Sri Lanka diplomats over these years and […]
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeysekera I watched various TV presentations ,read daily news items in national papers about accelerated plans with all three above ports as the nucleus of growth I also note that agency with a CEO with authoritarian powers under the New super minister will spearhead planning and kicking off under the Guidance of the […]
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2016
By Ananda Ariyarathne Courtesy Ceylon Today “A Constitution is expected to consolidate all the imaginable ‘safeguards’ to protect and preserve human rights, incorporating all the practical facilitations to make all those rights achievable. It has to be the best framework to feel the pulse of the people and capable of guaranteeing aspirations of the people. The […]
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2016
ඝාතනයට ලක්වූ ප්රවීණ මාධ්යවේදී ලසන්ත වික්රමතුංග හා හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අතර සිදුවූ දුරකථන සංවාදයක් අන්තර්ජාලයේ ප්රසිද්ධියට පත්ව ඇති බැවින් ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා දක්වන්නේ මෙබඳු ප්රතිචාරයකි.
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2016
Editorial Courtesy The Island December 21, 2016, 10:30 pm What most people, crushed under a massive economic burden, wish for is a square meal. But, well-nourished political endomorphs have no such worries. Every day is Christmas for them. For, Santa is apparently resident in Parliament and takes care of all their needs. Now, they get pocket […]
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2016
U. Pethiyagoda Courtesy The Island December 21, 2016, 12:00 pm Hats off (by those who still wear them), in applause to TULF leader, Mr. V. Anandasangaree (VA) for his forthright condemnation of the recent hikes in salaries, perks and allowances of MPs. As reported in The Island of 2nd of December, he expresses so cogently “It […]
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2016
නීතිඥ කල්යානන්ද තිරාණගම උපුටා ගැන්ම Ceylon Leader December 18, 2016 විධායක ජනාධිපති බලතල අහෝසි කිරීම සහ පවතින මැතිවරණ ක්රමය වෙනස් කිරීම මේ ආණ්ඩුව පත්වනවිට ජනතාවට දුන් ප්රධාන ප්රතිඥා දෙකකි. නව ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවක් සම්පාදනය කිරීමේ අරමුණ එය බව ප්රකාශ වුවද යෝජිත නව ආණ්ඩු ක්රම ව්යවස්ථාවෙන් ද ජනාධිපති බලතල එලෙසින්ම පවත්වාගෙන යැමට යෝජනා වී ඇතැයි පසුගියදා ප්රකාශ විය. […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා නැවත බලයට එන විට මුළු රටම බංකොලොත් වනු ඇති බව ඇමති මලික් සමරවික්රම මහතා පවසයි. වරාය චීනයට පැවරීම, සංවර්ධන විශේෂ විධිවිධාන පනත් කෙටුම්පත ආදී කාරණා සම්බන්ධයෙන් අදහස් පල කිරීම සදහා කොළඹදී පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවක් අමතමින් ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේය. ‘එතුමා ආපහු බලයට එනකොට මුළු රටම බංකොලොත්’ යයි ඇමතිවරයා එහිදී […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
Courtesy Outlook A former Sri Lankan sailor, who had attacked visiting Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi with a rifle butt in 1987, was today accused by the government of making an astrological prediction about the death of President Maithripala Sirisena by January 26 next year. Nimal Bopage, Secretary to the Ministry of Media and Parliamentary Affairs, said […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The joint opposition today charged the news forecasting and social media websites including the Facebook were under threat of the government’s several bigwigs due to their necessity to ban those websites in Sri Lanka. Addressing a media briefing, joint opposition member and MP Dullas Alahapperuma said it was evident from the […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
ALI SUKHANVER Indian Home Minister Rajnath Singh said while speaking to a gathering in Indian-held Kashmir a few days back, Pakistan would soon be in ten pieces if cross-border terrorism does not come to an end.” According to the Times of India, he further said, Pakistan has been divided into 2 countries in 1971. If […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
ලංකා සී නිවුස් ආරක්ෂක ලේකම්වරයා දූෂිතයකු බවත් ඔහු විසින් ජනාධිපතිවරයාට වැරදි තොරතුරු ලබා දෙන බවත් පසුගිය දවස්වල දිගින් දිගටම චෝදනා කරනු ලැබු මහාචාර්ය සරත් විජේසූරිය නැමැත්තාට විරුද්ධව රුපියල් මිලියන 1000ක වන්දි ඉල්ලමින් ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් කරුණාසේන හෙට්ටිආරච්චි මහතා තම නීතිඥවරුන් මාර්ගයෙන් එන්නතරවාසියක් යවා තිබේ. සරත් විජේසුරිය මහතා මේ වන විට සාධාරණ සමාජයක් සඳහා වූ ජාතික ව්යාපාරයේ […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeysekera I have written many opinions emphasizing the necessity to have a Benevolent Dictator in Sri Lanka to accelerate development .During President Jayawardane ,Mahaweli.and other free trade zones were established despite the objections from opposition .During the time of President Premadasa ,Garment Industry and Gamudawa development was boosted .During President Mahinda ,many other […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
By A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary. Ahmadiyya Muslims from over 50 countries including Sri Lanka are expected to participate in the 125th annual congregation of the community to be held from December 26-28 at Qadian in Punjab, India. In 1891, the founder of Ahmadiyya Muslim community, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, had initiated the spiritual […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
ඞී. ජේ. රාජකරුණා කැඳවුම්කරු, තෙල් සංස්ථාව වෘත්තීය සමිති එකමුතුව ලංකාවේ ස්වාධීනත්වය ආරක්ෂා කර චීන වරාය තෙල් ටැංකි සංකීර්ණය තෙල් සංස්ථාවට පවරාගන්නා ලෙසට ලංකා ඛණිජ තෙල් පොදු සේවක සංගමය යහපාලන රජයෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටි.කැබිනට් අනුමැතිය ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමට චීන වරාය ටැංකි සංකීර්ණයට ගිය ලංකා ඛනිජතෙල් සංස්ථා නිළධාරීන්ට IOC සමාගමේ නිළධාරීන් ටැංකි සංකීර්ණයට ඇතුළුවීමට හෝ ඉඩ ලබා දී නොමැති අතර […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
ලංකා සී නිවුස් හම්බන්තොට වරාය සීයයට 80% චීනයය පැවරීම හා එහි කොටස් සීයයට 20% වරාය අධිකාරියටත් සතුවන සේ ඩොලර් බිලියන 1.2 කට මූලිකව වසර 99කට හා පසුව තවත් වසර 99කට චීන සමාගමට පැවරිමට ගිවිසගත් ගිවිසුමට අනුව චීනයේ චයිනා මර්චන්ට් පොර්ට් හෝල්ඩිග්ස් සමාගම මේ වනවිට ඇ ඩොලර් මිලියන 5 ක අත්තිකාරම් මුදලක් ද ගිවිසුම අත්සන් කල […]
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Wednesday, December 21st, 2016
උපුටාගැණීම දිවයින හම්බන්තොට වරාය ව්යාපෘතියට ඉඩම් අක්කර 15,000 ක් ලබාදුන්නොත් අනිවාර්යයෙන් එම ප්රදේශයේ ජනතාවගේ විරෝධය මතුවන බව චීන රජයට සහ චීන සමාගමට හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සිය චීන සංචාරයේදී පැහැදිලි කර දුන් බව එම සංචාරයට එක්වූ මහාචාර්ය ජී. එල්. පීරිස් මහතා පැවසීය. පුංචි බොරැල්ල, ශ්රී වජිරාශ්රම බෞද්ධ මධ්යස්ථානයේදී පැවති එකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ ආර්ථික පර්යේෂණ ඒකකයේ […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people’s sacred status, regardless of the pest. –Steve Irwin The Stolen Generation is a term used to describe those children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න මාධ්ය සම්බන්ධීකාරක වැසිවනාන්තර සුරකින්නන්ගේ සංගමය දුනුමඩලාව වනරක්ෂිතය මහනුවර නගරාශ්රිතව ඉතිරි වී ඇති අවසාන ස්වභාවික වනාන්තර දෙකෙන් එකකි. එය කළමනාකරණය කිරීමේ වගකීම මහනුවර මහනගර සභාව දරණු ලබන්නේ දුනුමඩලාව රක්ෂිතය, ජලාශය හා ජලපෝෂක- ජලධාරක ප්රදේශය මහනුවර නගරයේ ප්රධාන පානීය ජල සැපයුම වීමේ විශේෂ හේතුවෙනි. නමුත්, සීඝ්රයෙන් ව්යාප්තවන ප්රසර්පණකාරී ක්රියා නිසා වනරක්ෂිතයත් ජලාශය හා ජලපෝෂක-ජලධාරක ප්රදේශයත් දැඩි තර්ජනයකට ලක්වී ඇත. දුනුමඩලාව රක්ෂිතයේ නැගෙනහිර […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Twice married, but still slim and elegant, at the age of 36, Ernest Wallis Simpson with a keen intelligence and a gift for the witty repartee, managed to steal the heart of Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David, the Prince of Wales, who was the son of King George […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Courtesy The Sudney Morning Herald The International Monetary Fund seems cursed. One managing-director embroiled in scandal is perhaps unlucky: to suffer three in a row starts to look serious. First it was the Spaniard Rodrigo Rato, now awaiting trial for embezzlement for allegedly running a “corrupt system” at the helm of Bankia. Then […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday told The Island that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was certainly in a quandary over the Maithripala Sirisena-Wickremesinghe administration’s partnership with China. India had strongly opposed to the previous government’s relationship with China and thrown its weight behind the Opposition at the last presidential […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
Editorial The Island December 20, 2016, 7:55 pm The problem with lies is that they have a very short lifespan. It was only the other day that the Finance Ministry sought to justify its unconscionable traffic fine increases by claiming that the mere announcement thereof had led to a drastic drop in road accidents. It […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
Editorial Courtesy Ceylon Today Last week it was reported that the government is taking drastic measures to address a drought that is expected to threaten the country in the near future. Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake meeting with the media noted that the President has received an expert report on the predicted drought that will affect the […]
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2016
BY STANLEY SAMARASINGHE Courtesy Ceylon Today Lawyer and public interest litigation activist, Nagananda Kodituwakku, yesterday filed Writs of Mandamus, in the Supreme Court against granting duty free vehicles to Members of Parliament. According to his petition, the law permits the ministers to grant tax exemptions, only after considering the economic development of the country. MPs’ permits […]
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Monday, December 19th, 2016
Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 19 December 2016 His Eminence Archbishop of Colombo, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith The Archbishop’s House Borella 00800 Colombo 08 Sri Lanka Your Grace: Re: Controversial Christmas Tree Guinness Dream coming True This is my third letter on this subject and the first […]
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Monday, December 19th, 2016
Dr Sudath Gunasekara. President Udarata Urumaya Surekiime Jatika Sanvidhanaya 18.12.2016. This illegally constituted, unconstitutional, unethical and unpatriotic Government should immediately drop its diabolical conspiracy to replace the present Constitution with a Federal Constitution OR GO HOME in the alternative, Without betraying the Sinhala Nation and their Motherland that was jealously and valiantly defended against all […]
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Monday, December 19th, 2016
Sarath Wijesinghe Former Ambassador to U A E and Israel Trade Agreements in General Trade Agreement or trade pact is a wide range of arrangements on tax, tariff, and trade practices that often includes investment guarantees, common preferential and free trade practices advantageous to the respective country or the region involved. No country in the […]
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Monday, December 19th, 2016
Editorial Courtesy The Island December 19, 2016, 8:06 pm Apologists for the incumbent government claim that some powers of the executive presidency have been curtailed. True, there has been some tinkering with the JRJ Constitution. But, the fact remains that the pledge to abolish the executive presidency has been reneged on and the promised radical break […]
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Monday, December 19th, 2016
By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Hypocrisy has smacked us hard this Christmas. A whole bandwagon got into social media to defend an artificial Christmas tree – at a time real trees in Wilpattu are felled at an alarming rate. The same defenders who saw opportunity in investing millions of rupees in a temporary structure fails […]
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