By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando The heart of a cement plant is the grinding mill, says Ananda Karunarathne, where clinker is ground with gypsum (a soft white or gray mineral consisting of hydrated calcium sulfate) to manufacture cement. The original manufacturers of the mill at Galle had been Danish Company, and in today’s context, one […]

Upali Cooray The above Sinhala proverb Is used in Sinhala language when getting  rid of something bad, only to get something worse (Inguru deela Miris gaththa wage) People in this country are in a similar dilemma. The former finance Minister now holding the portfolio of foreign affairs has been exposed well and truely at the […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Quote “I urge the private sector leaders here to ask yourselves these questions. Is the country moving in the right direction in terms of its economic policy making, trade policy framework and foreign investment promotion programme? Do we have the right frameworks for public debt management, sensible public expenditure targets, revenue enhancement, […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා විවෘත ආර්ථිකයට අවුරුදු හතළිහයි. රනිල්ගෙ දේශපාලන ජීවිතයටත් අවුරුදු හතළිහයි. මේ කතාකරන්නෙ 1977 ගැනයි. හැත්තෑහතේ මැතිවරණයෙන් එ ජා පක්‍ෂයට හයෙන් පහක් ලැබුණා. ජේ ආර් අගමැති වුණා. රනිල් මන්ත්‍රීවරයෙක් වුණා. රොනී ද මැල් මුදල් ඇමති වුණා. විවෘත ආර්ථිකය රටට හඳුන්වා දුන්නා. ඊට පස්සෙ රට දියුණු වුණා ද? දියුණුව කියන්නෙ මොකක් ද? මහින්දගෙ කාලෙ අධිවේගී […]

by C.A.Chandraprema  Courtesy The Island July 29, 2017, 7:13 pm The signing of the Agreement with China Merchant Co to lease out the Hambantota port for 99 years went ahead on Saturday as scheduled. This announcement took place in the context of rumours that were swirling around that India had brought pressure on Sri Lanka to […]

By Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror National List MP Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thera, who played a pivotal role in the election of President Maithripala Sirisena, speaks about the constitution making process and what should be done. He responded to matters raised by Government MP Jayampathi Wickramaratne in a previous interview. Excerpts of the interview:  It […]

By D.B.S. Jeyaraj Courtesy The Daily Mirror How JR was forced to sign the Indo -Lanka Accord 30 years ago Thirty years ago on this day (July 29th 1987) an accord was signed by Rajiv Gandhi and Junius Richard Jayewardene The India – Sri Lanka Accord known popularly as the Indo-Lanka peace accord was hailed then […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA. This is to provide a roundup of news items and comments on the State sponsored attacks carried out by a group of goons on striking worker of the Petroleum Corporation on Wednesday. State sponsored Thugs attacked Ceypetco Trade unionists in front of inactive Police The National Freedom Front vehemently condemn […]

KAMALIKA  PIERIS Revised 9.9.19 The first thing that happened once the so-called CIA inspired ‘regime change’ took place and the Yahapalana government came into power was protests, demonstrations, and strikes. The media observed that in September 2015 alone, 24 street protests were held in Colombo. And dozens of others have been held elsewhere. There were […]

Translated by A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The Provincial Councils Election (Revised) Act draft bill published by a gazette notification on 10th July is to be presented in the Parliament this week.  The objective of this draft bill is to introduce a Law stating that the female representations in the Provincial Councils should at least be a […]

ශ්‍රී ලංකා වරාය අධිකාරියේ ඉංජිනේරු සහ විධායක නිලධාරී සංගමය ණය ගෙවන්න වරාය විකිණීමේ බොරුව සහ ඇත්ත යථාර්තය..!!! 2016 වසරේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා වරාය අධිකාරිය උපයන සමස්ථ ආදායම රුපියල් බිලියන 44 කි.. ඒ ආදායමෙන් මෙහෙයුම් වියදම්, පරිපාලන වියදම්, ”ණය පොලිය” සහ වෙනත් වියදම් අඩු කිරීමෙන් පසුව පසුගිය 2016 වසරේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා වරාය අධිකාරියේ ශුද්ධ ලාභය රුපියල් බිලියන […]

BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE There’s a singular vacancy in this country, according to some.  Ranil Amirtthiah of the popular local band ‘Black,’ whenever he speaks and in whatever forum he chooses to do so, is often poetic but sometimes he flushes subtlety down the tube.  He says it straight from the heart, always.  This is clearly evident in a […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග මා විසින් ලියන ලද නවතම පොත ” Essays on Psychology ” ලියා අවසන් කරා. මෙම පොතේ මනෝ විද්‍යා මාතෘකා ගනනාවක් පිලිබඳව ලිපි අඩංගුයි. මෙම පොත සඳහා මනෝ වෛද්‍ය මහාචාර්‍ය දයා සෝමසුන්දරම් , මනෝ වෛද්‍ය උපාලි පීරිස් , මනෝ වෛද්‍ය ලෝරන්ට් කරීලා (ප්‍රංශය​) , මනෝ වෛද්‍ය රාමි ලලීල් ( ලෙබනනය​) , ආචාර්‍ය […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Rs.145 million used in making the initial payment of Rs.16.5 million and thereafter to pay the monthly loan installment of Rs.11 million for the controversial purchase of the Monarch Residency Penthouse in Colombo by a company owned by Minister Ravi Karunanayake’s family, has no origin nor has it been accounted […]

By Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy Courtesy The Island July 28, 2017, 9:44 pm From what we know about a penthouse leased by the former Minister of Finance, there is a very easy way for the Treasury to cut down on the huge amount of money spent on ministerial housing. It will certainly be very simple for the Cabinet […]

BY PANCHAMEE HEWAVISSENTI Courtesy Ceylon Today Global Sri Lankan Forum (GSLF) was formed in 2016 by Sri Lankan citizens living abroad, with the intention of representing the country in the international arena. Ajantha Premaratna, Project Coordinator for GSLF in an interview with Ceylon Today said that with the eradication of terrorism in 2009, many movements in […]

WINSTON DE VALLIERE Courtesy Ceylon Today It’s obvious that neither Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe nor President Maithripala Sirisena ever gave a thought to sustainability of a unity government when the numerous forces which engineered Sirisena’s common candidature for the presidency came together in a desperate attempt to bring an end to a run-away de facto dictatorship that was […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Few years back I myself took some investors from UAE and Germany to then SLPA chairman with a proposal to manage bunkering operation in Hambantota following a tender .Then SLPA chairman was so rude to the investor and almost kicked us out .He claimed that SLPA wants to do their own bunkering […]

I. P.C. Mendis Courtesy The Island Some of the older folks would remember the famous parlour game intended to trace a culprit where the questioning goes ad nauseam in the following manner – Who Sir? You Sir, Not I Sir, who then Sir? You Sir, Not I Sir – and so it goes on with the […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා බැඳුම්කර වංචාව පිළිබඳ ව බොහෝ දෙනා කතා නොකරපු කාලෙ, ඩිව් ගුණසේකර කෝප් කමිටු සභාපති කාලෙ ඉඳල ම ඒ ගැන කතා කරපු එයට විරුද්ධව නඩු කියපු අයකු ලෙස මට බැඳුම්කර කොමිසමේ වැඩ කටයුතු ගැන යම් සතුටක් ඇති වුවත් එහි අවසානය කෙසේ වේවි ද යන්න පිළිබඳ සැකයක් ඇති වෙනවා. ඒ කොමිසම ගැන තියෙන අවිශ්වාසයක් […]

Rear Admiral (Dr.) Sarath Weerasekera VSV, RWP, USP   An article appeared in The Island” on 10/7/2017 titled ‘Is there a Sangha State” behind the state?’, written by Laksiri Fernando ( LF). LF says that the Maha Sangha of the three Nikayas (Sangha) has given notice” to the government not to introduce a new constitution and […]

Shenali D Waduge The Medieval Inquisition in 1184 became the first of many Inquisitions (Spanish, Portuguese & Roman followed). What is relevant to this argument is that ALL executions were against non-Catholics & based on heresay, nothing more than finger pointing and allegations with absolutely no evidence or facts presented or even investigated. Fast forward […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ ජිවිත රගමඩලේ රගනා ශ්‍රී ලාංකීය නළුවන් අතරේ ඉතා වැදගත් කැපී පෙනෙන චරිතයක් රගපාන නළුවෙකි, අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ. අප ඔහුව හදුනන්නේ ඔහුගේ දේශපාලන භූමිකාව තුලිනි. මේ වනවිට ඔහුගේ දේශපාලන දිවියට වසර 40ක් සම්පුර්ණව ඇත. අප මේ සම්බන්ධව එතුමාට මේ අවස්ථාවේදී අපගේ ශුභ පැතුම් එක් කරන අතර මේ අවස්ථාවේදීම  මේ ඉතිහාසගත සුවීශේෂී චරිතය සම්බන්ධව සාකච්චාවක්ද  […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera BOI is supposed to be one stop shop for investors .People pay money to get registered as a BOI company and keep paying annual fee for it’s upkeep .BOI is also top-heavy agency occupying prime location in the World Trade Centre. .During JR ‘s time when it was started it was doing […]

Mahinda Gunasekera, 84 Tambrook Drive, Agincourt, Ontario, Canada  M1W 3L9 July 26, 2017 His Excellency, Maithripala Sirisena President of Sri Lanka, Colombo 1, Sri Lanka Copy to: Hon. Ranil Wickremasinghe, Prime Minister Your Excellency, Honourable Prime Minister, Cabinet Ministers and Elected MPs, Confusion prevailing in respect of Reconciliation, Constitutional Changes and UNHRC Resolution The messages […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island July 27, 2017, 9:50 pm We thought the practice of deploying goons to operate alongside the riot police to crush public protests would end with the 2015 regime change. The present-day leaders, in the run-up to the last presidential election, promised a clean break from the past and a new political culture. […]

By Hemantha Warnakulasuriya Courtesy The Island July 27, 2017, 10:00 pm I was happy to receive the news that Shiran Guneratne had been nominated by Chief Justice Priyasath Dep to fill one of the 03 vacancies in the Court of Appeal. But, I was also deeply concerned that the evil forces, conspiring to destabilise the independence […]

By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island July 27, 2017, 9:51 pm In view of the CPC strike the army and the STF were deployed at the Kolonnawa and the Muthurajawela oil storage facilities on Wednesday. Many persons armed with clubs etc were seen threatening and attacking the strikers at Kolonnawa. (File photo) Last Wednesday, for […]

නව ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ මූලික කෙටුම්පත් ලබන අගෝස්තු මස පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කරන බවත්, නව ව්‍යවස්තාව ජනමතවිචාරණයකින් සම්මත කරගැනීම සදහා සූදානම් වන ලෙසත් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා ‘පුරවැසි බලය‘ ඇතුළු රාජ්‍ය නොවන සංවිධාන ප්‍රධානීන්ට දන්වා ඇත. වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව බලයට පත් කිරිම සදහා කැපවූ රාජ්‍ය නොවන සංවිධාන ප්‍රධානීන් පිරිසක් සමග පසුගිය ජූලි 21 වනදා අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේදී පැවති සාකච්ඡාවකදි අගමැතිවරයා […]

Courtesy Port Strategy 27 Jul 2017  The cabinet of Sri Lanka has cleared a revised deal for its Chinese-built port of Hambantota following public anger towards terms of the first pact. According to Reuters, under the new agreement cleared on July 25, the Sri Lankan government has limited China’s role in the port to the running […]