Archive for March, 2017
Tuesday, March 21st, 2017
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Shipyard Operator My colleague Rohan Abeywickrama made above statement during his address in the Shippers Forum I wrote about attitude of SLPA which always ran by people who had vested interest have failed to mobilze local companies to resurrect the Hambantota Port and make it a profitable venture Quote හම්බන්තොට වරාය චීනයට […]
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Monday, March 20th, 2017
R Chandrasoma It is commonly assumed that a factual statement or a proposition of some importance is deemed true or authentic only if there is proof of its validity. In other words, a proposition – if acceptable – must rest on sound evidence. In the world of politics this wisdom is rarely seen. To be […]
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Monday, March 20th, 2017
Dr IMRC Iriyagolle(Not a coward) “Honour and Duty Bound With compassion and Righteousness” We the Sinhalese are the honoured and privileged custodians of our sacred Buddhist cultural Heritage and traditional homeland Sinhale(Sri Lanka-Eelam-The land of the Sinhalese). We are therefore truly blessed. Enshrined in our hearts and minds is the glorious and sacred legacy bestowed […]
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Monday, March 20th, 2017
Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a modified form of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that was developed in late 1970s by Marsha M. Linehan a psychology researcher at the University of Washington (Linehan, 1993). DBT is an empirically supported treatment for suicidal individuals (Linehan et al., 2015). It can be adapted to treat borderline personality […]
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Monday, March 20th, 2017
නලින් ද සිල්වා මංගල යුද්ධාපරාධ ගැන කතා කරලා. ඔහු කරුණු දෙකක් කියනවා. පළමුවෙන් ඔහු පිළිගන්නචා මෙරට ව්යවස්ථාවට අනුව දෙමුහුන් අධිකරණ පිහිටුවන්න බැහැ කියලා. ඒත් ඔහු ව්යවස්ථාව සංශෝධනය කිරීම කියන එක අත්හැරලා නැහැ. සුමන්තිරන් කියන්නෙ දෙමුහුන් අධිකරණ පිහිටුවන්න ඕන ම කියලා. ආණ්ඩුව ජෙනීවාහි කල් ඉල්ලගත්තෙ කලින් යෝජනාව අනුව දෙමුහුන් අධිකරණ පිහිටුවන්නයි. ආණ්ඩුව නව ව්යවස්ථාවක් ගෙනැල්ල අවශ්ය […]
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Monday, March 20th, 2017
By Dayan Jayatilleke Hafeel Farisz confuses what I have said about Gotabaya and Gunaratnam, both of whom are the most interesting figures I find in the Sri Lankan public arena today, because they come from two different streams of struggle of our conflicted contemporary history—two different civil wars. Farisz tries to impose on me a choice […]
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Monday, March 20th, 2017
by Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Courtesy The Island March 19, 2017, 12:00 pm US-based Hafeel Farisz has written a double-barreled critique of Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and me, though as he says, I am the primary target because of the intellectual dimension or pretensions that I bring to bear. It is quite tempting for me to respond at the […]
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Monday, March 20th, 2017
Editorial The Island March 20, 2017, 8:01 pm A determined effort is being made in some quarters to dupe the public into believing that the 2015 UNHRC Resolution on Sri Lanka, co-sponsored by the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe regime, does not call for a hybrid war crimes tribunal. This claim, based on some perverted logic, does not stand […]
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Monday, March 20th, 2017
By Vinod Moonesinghe March 20, 2017, 8:03 pm Perhaps symptomatic of the extent to which the Yahapalanaya regime has failed to fulfil its promises is that its supporters among the intelligentsia are now distancing themselves from it. The latest of them appears to be Prof. Laksiri Fernando (“Western Australian Elections and Possible Lessons for Sri […]
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Monday, March 20th, 2017
by C. R. de Silva, C.C.S. (Retd). Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) – Low Export Viability under FTAs. Courtesy The Island March 19, 2017, 12:00 pm Continued from Will Free Trade (FTAs) Lead to a ‘Powerful’ Sri Lanka? THE IMF IN SRI LANKA – Part III Will Free Trade (FTAs) Lead to a ‘Powerful’ Sri Lanka? THE […]
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Monday, March 20th, 2017
– මව්බිම මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ යනු ජාතික නායකයෙක්. එතුමා කිසිම පක්ෂයකට අයිති නැහැ. මේ රටේ බෞද්ධ, ඉස්ලාම්, ක්රිස්තියානි, හින්දු යනාදී සියලුම ආගම් අදහන මිනිසුන්ගේ ජාතික නායකයා එතුමායි. එතුමා තරම් සියලු ආගමිකයන්ගේ පිළිගැනීමට එක සේ ලක්වූ වෙනත් කිසිදු නායකයකු මේ දිවයිනේ නැහැ. දේශප්රේමී භික්ෂු පෙරමුණේ ලේකම් සහ ජාතික හිමිකම් සංවිධානයේ සභාපති බෙංගමුවේ නාලක හිමියන් මේ අදහස් ප්රකාශ […]
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Monday, March 20th, 2017
Dr Sarath Obeysekera During my regular walk a bird flying over Diyawanna lake whispered to me that ,cabinet intends to decide the fate of Hambantota Project. Instead of giving a whopping 80 % of the ownership of the port to Chinese ,government ( under Yahaplana Pressure) has decided to increase our stake to 40% ,where […]
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Monday, March 20th, 2017
71 කැරැල්ල ආරම්භයේ සිට අවසානය දක්වා පුර්ණ සමාලෝචනයක් කෘතිය ඇසුරෙනි – වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග අප්රේල් මහ නඩුවේ 10 වන සැකකරු වූ වසන්ත කනකරත්න අද ජීවතුන් අතර නැත. අපට ලැබුණු තොරතුරු අනුව 1971 කැරැල්ලෙන් දින කිහිපයකට පසුව ඔහුව අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන ඇත. අත්අඩංගුවට පත්වීමෙන් පසුව වසන්ත කනකරත්න රහස් පොලිස් නිලධාරින් සමඟ යාපනය බන්ධනාගාරයටද, හැමන්හිල් බන්ධනාගාරයටද ගොස් තිබේ. (රහස් පොලිසියේ විශේෂ විමර්ෂණ ඒකකයේ නිලධාරියෙකු වූ ජෙගනාදන් මහතා මෙසේ කරුණු දක්වයි : […]
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Sunday, March 19th, 2017
Garvin Karunaratne When I visited the Mollipotana monk the first time in January 2014 the temple was desolate. It was in the morning at around ten. The Bo Tree, the small place of worship was all bare of human beings. The Awasa, the residence of the monks was also desolate and I dared to move […]
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Sunday, March 19th, 2017
Dr Sarath Obeysekera Action proposed by police as per above news item appeared on Sunday Paper is a good move by the police . It is better to place few cars with dummy camera and one or two with real cameras along the busy routes like the ones shown above ( in UK) so that […]
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Sunday, March 19th, 2017
ALI SUKHANVER Mr. Narendra Modi, the honourable Prime Minister of India , made a speech during an election meeting in Jaunpur on the 3rd of this March. The speech was all about a minister of Uttar Pradesh, Gayatri Prajapati who is allegedly involved in a rape case. According to the media details, a look-out notice […]
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Sunday, March 19th, 2017
අද වන විට ආණ්ඩුවට අන්තර්ජාලයේත් හැමතැනමත් කුණුහරුපයෙන් බනින බව අගමැති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා පවසයි. ගාල්ල නෙළුව ප්රදේශයේ පැවති රැස්වීමක් අමතමින් ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේය. කුණුහරුපයෙන් බනින එක වස් දොස් යන්න හොද දෙයක් බවද ඔහු එහිදී පැවසීය.
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Sunday, March 19th, 2017
යසවර්ධන රුද්රිගු– Deshaya.lk සංශෝධිත විගණන පනත මගින් විගණකාධිපති ආණ්ඩුවේ වෛරක්කාරයකු ලෙස සලකා කටයුතු කර ඇති බව පෙනෙන්නට තිබෙන නිසා තමා සංශෝධිත විගණන පනතට නිරීක්ෂණ ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමෙන් වැළකී සිටි බව විගණකාධිපති ගාමිණී විජේසිංහ පැවසුවේය. තමාගේ නිරීක්ෂණ සඳහා එවා ඇති සංශෝධිත විගණන පනතේ අවසාන කෙටුම්පත පිළිබඳ තමා කිසිදු මතයක් ඉදිරිපත් නොකරන බව වාචිකව දැනුම් දුන්නේ යැයි ඔහු […]
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Sunday, March 19th, 2017
By Sulochana Ramiah Mohan Courtesy Ceylon Today Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi pillay told Ceylon Today, that when she met former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa during her visit to Sri Lanka and urged him to maintain investigations to establish where about of missing persons, he had stated, These people do not want […]
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Sunday, March 19th, 2017
By Dr Palitha Kohona (Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN) Courtesy Ceylon Today Sri Lanka commemorated a dark day in its long and proud history earlier this month. We recalled the cession of our sovereignty to King George III of Britain following the signature of the Kandyan Convention on 2/3 March […]
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Sunday, March 19th, 2017
RANJITH SOYSA Any person with an iota of IQ would have hidden his head in utter shame seeing garlanded Dr Pakiyasothi Saravanmuttu being welcomed to the John Kothalawala Military academy as a guest of honour by the Principal of the institution. To recognize Dr PS is simply a case of Sri Lanka military authorities leaping […]
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Sunday, March 19th, 2017
Kanthar P Balanathan, Australia This article is in response to a video prepared and circulated by Dr. Mahipal Sing Rathore. The talk can be viewed on YouTube page ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBeT2OcAiyw Although the narrator attempts to focus on some issues, Mahipal has disregarded to discuss the main issues and problems generated by Tamils attempt at every […]
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Sunday, March 19th, 2017
Sultan M Hali INDIA has tried to interfere in the affairs of every neighbour and create instability to prove its supremacy. Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka; all have suffered due to Indian illusions of grandeur. Pakistan, of course is reserved for special treatment, because India never forgave Pakistan for breaking away from […]
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Sunday, March 19th, 2017
Dr Sudath Gunasekara 18.3.2017. It was reported that the recently opened Indian Consular Office in Jaffna is providing forged documents to South India Tamils to migrate to northern Sri Lanka. This is a very serious threat to the security of the country that call for the immediate attention of all Sinhala people. T What hey […]
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Sunday, March 19th, 2017
නලින් ද සිල්වා මංගල සමරවීර විදේශ ඇමති. මෛත්රිපාල සිරිසේන ජනාධිපති. රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ අගමැති. මේ තුන් දෙනා විදේශ විනිසුරුවන්, දෙමුහුන් විනිසුරුවන්, ගැන කියන්නේ එකක් ම ද?. ඒ සියල්ල ඇත්ත විය හැකි ද? ඒ සඳහා ඉඩකඩක් තිබේ ද? මෛත්රිපාල නම් කියන්නේ විදේශ විනිසුරුවන් පත් නොකරන බවයි. රනිල් කියන එකෙහි තේරුම විදේශ විනිසුරුවන් පත් කිරීමට ඉඩක් නැති බවයි. […]
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Sunday, March 19th, 2017
Irangika Range Courtesy The Daily News Wednesday, March 15, 2017 Ninety four MPs have not passed their GEC (O/L) examination while there are only 25 graduates among the 225 legislators in the present Sri Lankan Parliament, former Chancellor of the University of Peradeniya, Prof. M O A de Zoysa said yesterday. He observed that MPs who […]
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Sunday, March 19th, 2017
සිදත් මෙන්ඩිස් – Mawbima.lk මාස 4ක් වැනි කෙටි කාලයක් තුළ යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුව රුපියල් කෝටි 13000ක පාඩුවක් රටට සිදුකර ඇති බව TOP10 යටතේ හෙළිදරව් කිරීමට හැකි වූ බව ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය අවධාරණය කරයි. TOP10 අවසාන හෙළිදරව්ව පිළිබඳ පැහැදිලි කිරීම සදහා ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය බොරැල්ල ඇන්. එම්. පෙරේරා කේන්ද්රයේ කැඳවා තිබූ මාධ්ය හමුවට එක් වෙමින් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රි මහින්දානන්ද අලුත්ගමගේ […]
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Sunday, March 19th, 2017
Mahinda Gunasekera Please see the annexed article written by a Pakistani observer on the subject of Indian interventions in Sri Lanka. In the penultimate para highlighted in blue, he has stated that the Indian Consulate Office in Jaffna has been providing forged papers for South Indian Tamils from Tamilnadu to travel to Sri Lanka’s north […]
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Sunday, March 19th, 2017
නලින් ද සිල්වා රනිල් හා මංගල කරන්න යන්නෙ මොකක් ද කියන එක දැන් හොඳට ම පැහැදිලියි. ඒ වෙන මොකක්වත් නොවෙයි එක්කෝ නව ව්යවස්ථාවක් සම්මත කිරීම, නැත්නම් ව්යවස්ථාව තමන්ට අවශ්ය විධියට සංශෝධනය කිරීම. ඒක නවත්වන්න තියෙන එක ක්රමයක් තමයි රනිල් අගමැති කමෙන් ඉවත් කිරීම හා මංගල විදේශ ඇමති ධුරයෙන් පහ කිරීම. මේ දෙන්නට ම වුවමනා රට […]
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Sunday, March 19th, 2017
BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE It has become a tradition for Ranil Wickremesinghe to visit various signature tents at the Royal-Thomian and respond to questions put to him. It’s all light-hearted. The questions are often tongue-in-cheek stuff and the responses are calculated to generate some laughter, one feels. It was no different this year. Two questions stood […]
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