Sarath Wijesinghe- former Ambassador to UAE and Israel – former Chairman Consumer Affairs Authority Waste is Gold – not a nuisance Waste is Gold in other parts of the world, managing to derive the power, fertilizer, chemicals, and many other subsidiaries for their development and prosperity, not considered a nuisance but an asset. Other parts […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Spokesperson, United Sri Lanka Association  Rt Hon Bill English, Prime Minister of New Zealand. Dear Mr. English I write to forward this article from the UK Daily Mail  of 21/4/17  showing how Tamil Tiger Terrorist affiliates  from Sri Lanka self inflict by proxy” torture , to enable them to obtain refugee […]

Anjalika Silva USA Dual citizenship for Sri Lankan expatriates living overseas is assumed by successive Governments to be a status that will benefit the country through loyalty with financial and property ownership privileges provided for Dual Citizenship holders.  As the two main reasons for Dual citizenship, not many go beyond personal reasons to provide benefits […]

S. Talpahewa, Former Chairman/Managing Director, Ceylon Petroleum Corporation. Courtesy The Island April 24, 2017, 10:03 pm Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka in his article, “Ranil’s worst betrayal: Giving Trincomalee to India”, implies that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has betrayed the country at least twice before, i. e. one a bad betrayal and two a worse betrayal. Whatever […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka in his article, ‘Meethotamulla and the Fate of the Executive Presidency’, draws a parallel between the Meethotamulla tragedy and the dangers we face as a nation. More than 30 people were buried alive in garbage by the failure to address the dangers of a growing mountain of […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Karadiana will receive garbage till 28th April .Then What ? Fairway Inc has got a contract to recycle 500 tons from Dehiwela ,Mountlavinia ,Moratuwa etc in Kardiyana . It will take at least 2 year to commission the project  ,They will ( hopefully get ) almost 36 Rs per Unit from CEB […]

Sanchita Bhattacharya Visiting Scholar, Institute for Conflict Management The practice of condemning an individual or a particular group for following ‘certain religious practices’ in the name of blasphemy has intensified acts of violence in Pakistan. In the latest blasphemy case, Mashal Khan, a student, was brutally lynched by his own hostel mates at Abdul Wali […]

Sarath Obeysekera We have done some blood tests in two different leading hospitals known for accurate reports. One consultant looked at them and got confused when he read different values in both reports for same tests He advised us to go to Apollo Hospital ,where modern latest equipment are used ,claiming that this is the […]

 lanka C news | ලංකා සී නිවුස් මීතොටමුල්ලේ කුණු කන්ද කඩා වැටීම නිසා මිය ගියේ 33ක් යයි මාධ්‍යවලින් වාර්තා කලද එම ප‍්‍රමාණය සත්‍ය වශයෙන්ම 200ක් පමණ විය හැකි යයි නියෝජ්‍ය ඇමති රන්ජන් රාමනායක මහතා පවසයි. මෙම සිදුවීම සමූල ඝාතනයක් යයිද පවසන ඔහු ඊට වගකිව යුතු සියල්ලන්ට මිනීමැරුම් චෝදනා එල්ලවන්නේ යයිද සදහන් කරයි. කුණු කන්දේ ව්‍යාපෘතිය […]

ලංකා සී නිවුස් ත‍්‍රිකුණාමලය තෙල් ටැංකි සංකීර්ණය ඉන්දියාවට ලබා දීමේ විපාක හා එම ටැංකි සංකීරණයේ ඉතිහාස කතාව මීට පෙර ඛණිජ තෙල් ඇමති ධුරයද දැරු වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුවේද ඇමතිවරයෙක් වන සුසිල් පේ‍්‍රමජයන්ත් මහතා මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේය.

BY RIZA YEHIYA Courtesy Ceylon Today The actors were the so-called ‘Environmentalists’. Their hyperbolic claim was the ‘Rape of the Wilpattu forest’. The outcome was Mawillu being Gazetted as a Conservation Reserve Forest. Neither has a single alleged offender been apprehended nor have the ‘environmentalists’ substantiated their claims. Much to their embarrassment, President Maithripala Sirisena later […]

with Ravi Ladduwahetty Courtesy Ceylon Today “A lot of people like lollipops. I don’t like lollipops. To me, a lollipop is hard candy plus garbage. I don’t need a handle. Just give me the candy” – AMERICAN COMEDIAN, MUSICIAN, WRITER DEMETRI MARTIN The interview that Minister of Disaster Management Anura Priyadharshana Yapa had with this columnist […]

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island April 23, 2017, 12:00 pm Former External Affairs Minister Prof. G. Peiris yesterday told The Island that a recent British Court of Appeal ruling that a Sri Lankan asylum seeker had got a doctor to inflict grievous injuries in a bid to deceive British authorities should prompt a wider investigation […]