by Malinda Seneviratne March 18, 2017, 5:53 pm Arjuna Mahendran, the former Governor of the Central Bank, is reported to have transferred out some 500 members of his staff.  The Government is all set to demarcate specific areas for protests.  The Government got some egg on its face with the appointment and removal of judges.  […]

Ada Derana Black & White – 2017.03.18

Editorial Courtesy The Island March 18, 2017, 8:13 pm Whether public interest activist Nagananda Kodituwakku will succeed or not in his attempt to end the long-running practice of enriching legislators by the issue of duty free permits must await the determination of a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Priyasath Dep. However […]

By Our Correspondent Dhaka: Asia-Pacific Forum Environmental Journalists (APFEJ), in the backdrop of Indian government’s recent decision to ban a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) scribe on filming in its tiger reserves, has urged New Delhi to be reverent to the global media outlets respecting the democratic spirit of the country. The environment media forum also […]

Here are some interesting videos. If you go into one of these, you will see many more videos on the side https://youtu.be/yiy5uY3Iw2s  

Keheliya wants President to issue clarification on Mangala’s speech මංගල සමරවීර හරිද, වැරදි ද ජනපතිතුමනි රටට කියන්න…?

Avant-Garde is a world-renowned company – Mahinda Rajapaksa ඇවන්ගාඩ් කියන්නේ ලෝකය පිළිගත්ත සමාගමක්… හිටපු ජනපති මහින්ද කියයි.

ආණ්ඩුවම කියනවා, රට කරගෙන යන්න සල්ලි නැහැ කියලා… ටිල්වින් සිල්වා

වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති හැඳින්වීම අපේ රටේ තරම් ප්‍රශ්න තියෙන තවත් රටක් මේ ලෝකයේ තියෙනවා කියලා හිතන්න අමාරුයි. මිනිස්සු කාට කාටත් ප්‍රශ්න තියෙන එක ඇත්ත. ඒත් මිනිස්සු ඒ ප්‍රශ්නවලට විසඳුම් හොයාගන්නවා. එහෙම නැතිව කාකොටාගන්නවා කියන්නේ තියෙන ප්‍රශ්න තව තවත් අලුත් කරගන්න එකයි, නැති ප්‍රශ්න ඇති කරගන්න එකයි. අපේ රටේ තියෙන මේ අවුල ගැන අමුතුවෙන් කියන්න ඕන නෑ. […]

BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE  Way back when Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government was getting slammed left, right and centre by the ‘international (sic) community’, especially at the UNHRC, his detractors were thrilled.  Little did they care that the accusers were tainted in ways that made Sri Lanka look pretty innocent in terms of (alleged) ‘war crimes’.  Rajapaksa was […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග වධකාගාර ශ්‍රි ලාංකික සමාජයට නවතාවක් නොවේ. හමුදාව විසින් පාලනය කල යටාරෝ කැෆටේ‍රියා වධකාගාරයද කොටින් විසින් පවත්වාගෙන ගිය දේවිපුරම් වධකාගාරයද ශ්‍රි ලාංකිකයන්ට අමතක නොවේ. මේ වධකාගාර වලට වඩා පේරාදෙනිය වධකාගාරය වෙනස් වෙයි. එය පවත්වාගෙන යන ලද්දේ අට සමත් කේඩරයන් නොව විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයට තේරුණු සිසුන් පිරිසක් විසිනි. මොවුන් රැඩිකල් දේශපාලන පක්‍ෂ වල සොල්දාදුවෝ […]

by C. R. de Silva, C.C.S. (Retd).Courtesy The Island March 17, 2017, 9:42 pm Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) – Low Export Viability under FTAs. In Sri Lanka, approximately 99.8% of domestic sales are the product of small business concerns, and 83% of these are from medium-sized enterprises, both together accounting for more than 50% […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්    සිංහලද්වීපය නොහොත් උඩරට ගිවිසුමේ සඳහන් සිංහලේ ට එල්ලවූ විදේශ ආක්‍රමණ ඉතිහාසය පුරාම නිමක් නැතිය. වරෙක මේ ආක්‍රමණිකයන් රට අල්වා ගත්හ.තමන්ට රිසි පරිදි පාලන පහසුවට බෙදා වෙන්කර ගත්හ. යුරෝපීයන්  පෙරදිගට පැමිණීමත් සමගම මේ ආක්‍රමණය නව ස්වරූපයකින් බලවත් විය. මේ නිසා සිංහල රජවරුන්ටද ඇතැම් විට සිදු වූ යේ උඩරට පහතරට වශයෙන් බෙදාගෙන පාලනය කර […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge There are a number of POWs of the Eelam War who still carry the psychological scars. Most of them suffer from DDD Syndrome which was delineated by Farber Harlow in 1956. The DDD Syndrome consists of debility, dependency and dread. POWs often show depression, apathy suspicion and fear. Some have large […]

Dr Hector Perera            London Most people think that cooking is such a difficult task. There are plenty of reasons to think why cooking is difficult and one of the main reasons is the cooking smell getting on them while cooking. No wonder our Sri Lankan working ladies always employ someone to cook and they are […]

lankanewsalert.com මානව හිමිකම් කඩ කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් අපට අද උපදෙස් ලබා දෙන්නේ , එදා සිංහල තරුණයන් අමු අමුවේ ඝාතනය කල ,බොන වතුරට පවා ,වස මුසු කල කල පිරිස් බව ,රියර් අද්මිරාල් (විශ්‍රාමික) ආචාර්‍ය සරත් විරසේකර මහතා පවසනවා . එක්සත් ජාතින් විසින් ශ්‍රි ලංකා යුධ හමුදාවට එල්ල කරන චෝදනා සම්බන්ධයෙන් අදහස් දක්වමින් ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියා. […]

Author: Dharshan Weerasekera Commissioned by – The Federation of National Organizations Sponsored by – The Global Sri Lanka Forum Editors :  Kalyananda Thiranagama  Raja Gunaratne Volume One Federation of National Organizations Colombo, Sri Lanka 27th January 2017 Dear Mr. Weerasekera, Mandate We wish to draw your attention to the following matters which form […]

Dilrook Kannangara The most potent governance tool of Sri Lanka is blackmail. Presidents use it extensively to buy compliance from friend and foe alike. President Sirisena sits on at least nine (9) investigation reports. The president doesn’t seem to care about punishing the corrupt. He is not at all interested in the massive drain of […]

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Dr Sarath Obeysekera I am not surprised .Government does not like efficient people ? See my article published some time back THERE ARE ONLY TWO ACTIVITIES PERFORMING WELL IN THIS COUNTRY GENERATING MUCH NEEDE FOREIGN CURRENCY One is tourism Other one is labour migration ?? Both doing well because they are run by more responsible […]

Editorial The Island March 16, 2017, 9:21 pm The Sirisena-Wickremesinghe administration calls itself ‘National Unity Government’. But, the much-touted unity is conspicuous by its absence. The yahapalana leaders don’t see eye to eye on virtually anything save the postponement of elections, holding the Joint Opposition at bay and feathering their nests. UNP and SLFP members […]

by C. R. de Silva, C.C.S. (Retd.) (The writer who was a member of the former C.C.S., was later a senior professional at World Bank Headquarters for over 30 years). March 13, 2017, 8:21 pm The economic philosophy propagated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to any and all developing countries which are unfortunate enough to […]

By Sarath Dharmasena and Shyam Nuwan anewatte March 16, 2017, 10:46 pm Assistant Governor and Secretary to the Monetary Board of the Central Bank H. A. Karunaratne, yesterday testifying before the Special Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the alleged Bond Scam, said the transfers of key officers within the institution after Arjuna Mahendran assumed duties […]

By Chitra Weeraratne and Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island March 16, 2017, 10:38 pm The Supreme Court was yesterday informed that members of Parliament representing all political parties had caused losses amounting to over Rs 7 bn by selling duty free vehicle permits without proper legal sanction. Among them are members of the yahapalana administration, the […]

The Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva  Human Rights Council 34th Regular Session  Report of the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues on her Mission to Sri Lanka, from 10-20 October 2016  Presented under the Agenda Item 3, Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues […]

Editorial Courtesy  Ceylon Today The ‘Hindu’, on the seeming controversial death of an Indian fisherman by shooting on 6 March, in an article published on its issue of Friday under the heading ‘TN fishermen hit SL Navy water scooter, claim officials,’ said, ‘Officers investigating the gunning down of a Tamil Nadu fisherman allegedly by Sri Lankan […]

By Ananda Ariyarathne Courtesy Ceylon Today “A sensible Constitution of a nation should be the reflection of its sovereignty. All the ‘Constitutions of the past’ did not destroy the sovereignty of Sri Lankan people, although there had been some weaknesses. Contrary to the argument that the Soulbury Constitution was a copy of the British system, it […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Joint Opposition today made a request to President Maithripala Sirisena to advise Foreign Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera to safeguard the country’s freedom, integrity and the Constitution while dealing with the Geneva Proposals. Joint Opposition Leader MP Dinesh Gunawardena told a news briefing that it was the government’s responsibility to work […]

Editorial The Island March 15, 2017, 8:01 pm Nothing is, perhaps, more indicative of a country’s backwardness than its political leaders’ desire to cling on to power like limpets even when they are superannuated. Mature democracies throw up enough and more capable leaders and they don’t wait till they are long in the tooth to […]

Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington D.C. Ambassador Prasad Kariyawasam today handed over the Commission of Appointment to David Bruce Sherman as Sri Lanka’s Honorary Consul in the state of Pennsylvania. He is the first Honorary Consul of Sri Lanka in that state. The Ambassador observed that at a time when Sri Lanka is expanding its […]