Shenali D Waduge The decision of the Myanmar Government must be applauded and supported by the entire Asian continent inclusive of the Muslim populace. Following colonial rule territories that belonged to indigenous people were taken over, plundered and divided and rechristened as ‘nations’ by the white Christian West. Now using slogans of ‘humanitarian’ ‘righteous’ democracy […]

By Garvin Karunratne, Ph.D. Michigan State University The Sri Lankan economy is truly in the doldrums. The BBC has recently in a spate of news broadcasts, derogatorily questioned: Is Sri Lanka Up for Sale.”(28/5/2017). This was preceded on 26 th June 2017, by another news item, A Country Trapped in Debt”. Their  Is Sri Lanka […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Sri Lankans call the coconut tree a kapruka (kalpavriksha)  – wish fulfilling divine tree- because every part of this tropical palm is so very useful to human life. The process of latent Maha Sangha unity becoming manifest can be likened to a coconut (seed-nut) germinating slowly as it normally does. The […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා  රජයේ වෛද්‍ය නිලධරි සංගමය පස්වැනි දා සිට අඛණ්ඩ වර්ජනයක් කිරීමට තීරණය කරලා. පැහැදිලිව ම ඔවුන්ට ඔවුන්ගේ විසඳුම අවශ්‍යයි. ඔවුන් සාකච්ඡා කියන්නේ ඔවුන්ගේ විසඳුම, එනම් සයිටම් අහෝසි කිරීම, ජනසතු කිරීම ඉටුකර ගැනීමට කරන ඊනියා සාකච්ඡාවලට පමණයි. ඔවුන්ගේ යෝජනාවල පදනම එයයි. වෛද්‍ය නිලධාරීන් අඛණ්ඩ වර්ජනයක යෙදෙන්නේ සයිටම් අහෝසි කිරීමට. එහෙත් අමතක නොකළ යුතු වැදගත් […]

දිනය 2017 අගෝස්තු 05 (මෙම වැඩමුළුව කොළඹ නගර සීමාව තුළ පැවැත්වෙන අතරස්ථානය සහ වේලාව පසුව දැනුම් දෙනු ලැබේ.) ලංකාවේ නීතිය අනුව පිහිටුවා ඇති අධිකරණ ලෙස ප්‍රාථමික අධිකරණ, මහේස්ත්‍රත් අධිකරණ, දිසා අධිකරණ, මහාධිකරණ, වාණිජ මහාධිකරණ, පළාත්බද මහාධිකරණ, පළාත්බද සිවිල් අභියාචනා මහාධිකරණ, අභියාචනාධිකරණය සහ ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය සැළකේ. එමෙන්ම නීතිය නොදැනීම සමාවට කරුණක් නොවේ” යන්නත් පිළිගත් නීති සිද්ධාන්තයකි. ලංකාවේ […]

by Bodhi Dhanapala. Quebec, Canada I usually read the articles on “environment and society” written By Dr. Prasana Cooray (Dr. PC) for the Island and usually find that they are reasonably well researched and informative. However, I found Dr. PC’s write up (July 3rd 2017) in the Island regarding the “Bibile sugarcane cultivation project” quite […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera I am not surprised . I have come across ASP when I was in SLLRDC .He was filling a land in Wattala despite our  protest .I was influenced by a politician to stop it ,but in vain .Then we were offered to dredge a lake and make drains by the corporation for […]

මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය කැෆේ සංවිධානය  2017 ජුලි 5 වනදා උපකුලපතිතුමා, ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර  විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය, නුගේගොඩ.   මහත්මාණෙනි, උමා ඔය පරිසර ඇගයීම් වාර්තාව – 2010 නොවැම්බර් වාරිමාර්ග හා ජල කළමනාකරණ අමාත්‍යාංශය වෙනුවෙන් ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්වවිද්‍යාලය විසින් මහාචාර්ය ස්වර්ණා පියසිරි මහත්මිය ගේ කණ්ඩායම් නායකත්වයෙන් සිදු කළ පරිසර ඇගයීම් වාර්තාව සම්බන්ධයෙනි.  උමා ඔය ව්‍යාපෘතිය ඌව පරණගම, වැලිමඩ, බණ්ඩාරවෙල, ඇල්ල, හාලි ඇළ […]

Map of massacres – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Map of massacres After years of painstaking research, an online map marking the massacres of Aboriginal clans across Australia’s colonial frontier has launched. More than 150 sites have been recorded along the east coast, where violent attacks on Aboriginal people took place for decades after the First Fleet […]

By Namini Wijedasa Courtesy: Sunday Times  The Supreme Court has dismissed a Fundamental Rights (FR) application by a mosque president and a principal of a madrassa in Panadura, arguing their right to proceed with building a religious school–which residents and Buddhist monks vehemently demonstrated against–was violated. President of the Board of Trustees of the Wekada Jumma […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera   We have noted that top bureaucrats in the government and ministers heading  leading Institutions which are directly involved in development of this country are failing miserably .We have also noted that HE has replaced the top bureaucrat ,top officer of national defence and a local governor. Everyone assume that it is done […]

Dr.Sarath Obeysekera GMOA postpones strike following Cardinal’s request !! ·         Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith denounces dumping of garbage in Muthurajawela  ! ·         Take urgent steps to help Salawa victims: Malcolm Ranjith  !! ·        Does Vatican disapprove of Cardinal’s nod to give Buddhism ‘foremost place’ in Sri Lanka? Various headings of news items listed above puzzles […]

 Gomin Dayasri Courtesy The Daily Mirror Country needs a new face with a new team – keeping to the developing trends internationally Discontent is a word weak in intensity to describe a Government fast losing support it held in 2015. The climate is not conducive for holding any election – fear of exposing an eroding vote […]

Somapala Gunadheera Courtesy The Island The SAITM dispute has become a Pandora’s Box. When one disputant agrees to a certain position, another party contests it. One day it appears as if the matter is getting solved at last, only to hear the next day that the controversy has returned to square one. This problem is best […]