by Eric Gamini Jinapriya Courtesy The Island The Chief incumbent of Dharmayathanaya, Colombo Ven Elle Gunawansa Thera yesterday said that he would come forward to prevent the division of the country. “I will join forces with patriots. I have no intention of contesting elections but will do everything possible for the victory of the motherland and […]

කංචන  විජේසේකරගෙන් පක්ෂ නායකයාට අධි චෝදනා පත්‍රයක් 2014 නොවෙම්බර් මස පක්ෂයෙන් ඉදිරිපත් කල අපේක්ෂකයා පරාජයට පත් කිරීමට එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය සහ අනෙකුත් කණ්ඩායම් සමග අත්වැල් බැඳ ගැනීම . 2015 ජනවාරි 09 වන දින පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ සන්ධානයට හිමිව තිබු අගමැතිධුරය සහ ආණ්ඩු බලය සුළුතරයක් හිමිව තිබු රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහට ලබා දීම.  2015 ජනවාරි මස සන්ධානයට බලය තිබුනු ඌව පළාත […]

By Gagani Weerakoon Courtesy  Ceylon Today With the sole intention of defeating any move to divide the country through constitutional means, ‘Eliya – Illuminating Aspirations’ an organization formed under the patronage of former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa was launched at Hotel Golden Rose, Boralesgamuwa on Wednesday (6) evening. Alleging that the proposed new Constitution would give […]

By Nuwan Hettiarachchi Courtesy Ceylon Today Chairman of the Public Platform National Movement Ven. Ulapane Sumangala Thera has questioned how the Sinhala newspaper, Janayugaya, which is alleged to have been…… published with funds accrued from the CB bond scam, is supplied with millions of rupees worth of Government advertisements. The Thera told the media yesterday that […]

Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror A group of Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) MPs are reported to have informed President Maithripala Sirisena on Wednesday night that they would quit the government soon and yesterday met former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to discuss the next step. The group included Ministers Susil Premajayantha and Anura Priyadarshana Yapa and […]

Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Ven. Elle Gunawansa Thera, in response to a statement by Minister and Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka describing the monk as a ‘mad man in robes’ said yesterday the United National Party (UNP) should decide whether it should have such a person as a Cabinet minister any longer. The monk […]

Chamil Rupasinghe Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today said even the current First Lady could be sued as she was seen distributing ‘Sil Redi’ along with the President a few days ago. Speaking to journalists in Kandy, Mr. Rajapaksa said he would visit former president’s secretary Lalith Weeratunga who was sentenced to three […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The asinine and moron Sarath Fonseka before he was sponsored by the American Ambassador in Sri Lanka Patricia Butenis to contest the Presidential Election of 2010 against Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa was the most hated person in the Sri Lankan Army for the UNP politicians and was ridiculed and mercilessly attacked […]

BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE Time it was…and what a time it was…it was…a time of innocence…a time of confidences.  Long ago it must be…I have a photograph…preserve your memories… they’re all that’s left you.” That’s Simon and Garfunkel and it’s from their song ‘Bookends’ which speaks of aging and nostalgia.  The nostalgia part is something that we often […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Poor little rich kids getting various allowances and other perks may go starving to reach Zero Size as they are all over grown ,Because they may eat less and less due to high prices .May even be that they may be taking a Rice Packet home which was earlier wrapped in polythene […]

by A. Abdul Aziz. This is in reference to an article titled:  ARMED MUSLIM INSURGENTS STARTS VIOLENCE IN MYANMAR by Dr. Daya Hewapathirane (LW – 28.08.2017). In his lengthy article the writer throws number of criticism against Islam, quoting verses of Holy Qur’an here and there and put an image as if Qur’an promotes violence […]

By Chitra Weerarathne Courtesy The Island Colombo High Court Judge Gihan Kulatunga yesterday convicted Anusha Pelpita, former Director General of the Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) and the second accused Lalith Weeratunga, former Presidential Secretary and former Chairman of TRC, of misuse of state funds and aiding and abetting the same in spending Rs. 600 million on […]

By Maheesha Mudugamuwa Courtesy The Island ‘Good Governance’ had been coined by the IMF, World Bank and the US Treasury, as a political conditionality for the enslavement of indebted countries such as Sri Lanka, former Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office at Geneva Tamara Kunanayakam said on Wednesday. She said it had […]

By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island JVP MP Sunil Handunnettii told Parliament yesterday that the Inland Revenue Bill has been designed to collect tax from each and every living citizen. Handunetti said the bill was so harmful to the people that the government should include the amendments submitted by the Opposition mitigate the adverse impact. He […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island September 7, 2017, 9:55 pm No sooner had incriminating evidence of insider trading emerged before the presidential commission of inquiry probing the bond scams against Perpetual Treasuries bigwigs than the High Court judgment in the sil redi case was delivered on Thursday. Former Secretary to President Mahinda Rajapaksa and ex-Chairman of the […]

Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror A new Constitution or Parliament shouldn’t be allowed to reverse the victories which were accomplished by uniting the country after defeating terrorism, former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa said. Speaking at the launch of ‘Eliya’ (light) Forum in Colombo on Wednesday, Mr. Rajapaksa said people fear that the accomplished victories would […]

M.S.M.Ayub Courtesy The Daily Mirror Two months ago, the supporters of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Parliament, who call themselves the Joint Opposition, claimed that 18 Parliament members of the Maithri faction of the Sri Lanka Freedom party (SLFP) were to join hands with them. But nobody has defected from the incumbent President’s faction to the […]

By Prageeth Sampath Courtesy Ceylon Today The United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) Member of Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena says Mahinda Rajapaksa carried out development work while the war was being fought. “He ended the war and carried out massive development projects in the country. He built ports, airports, and expressways. If Rajapaksa had not built them, […]

Shenali D Waduge An unexpected turn of events gives hope that even after over 500 years the crimes committed by European explorers and the Church will be exposed and lead to an overdue accountability, apology & compensation. As Confederate Statues are being brought down including those of statues of Christopher Columbus, it should take the […]

MEDIA RELEASE.Global Sri Lankan Forum Australia The statement of the Minister Sarath Fonseka that he would volunteer to testify against Gen.  Jagath Jaysooriya, if called upon to prove that the latter had committed war crimes,  is indeed distasteful and impetuous. The Minister has repeatedly said on previous occasions that the Defence forces did not commit […]

S. Akurugoda As per media reports, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has received an assurance from India that it will support the ongoing constitutional making process until it could be brought to a successful conclusion. According to the  said news item,  TNA  Leader Sampanthan has urged  the Indian Foreign Minister to exert pressure to the […]

බෝධි ධනපාල, කිබෙක්,  කැනඩාව නලින් ද සිල්වා මයා ගැන ලංකාවෙබ් ප්ත්‍රයෙහි පලවෙන ලිපි බලා ඔහු පිලිබඳව මගේ අත් දැකීම් ද  සටහන් කිරීමට සිතුනි. සිල්වා මහතා කොලඹ විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයෙන් ගණිතය සඳහා බී එස් සී උපාධියක් ලබා ගත්තේය. එය ගැන ලියමින් සිල්වා මහතා කිව්වේ ඔහු සිංහල බෞධ ආචාර්ය වරුන්ගෙන් කිසිවක් උගත්තේ නැති බවය. එදාත්, (අදත්) ඔහුට සිංහල […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Excellent! Thank you, you anonymous scholar  writing under the pen name Nila Maha Yodaya  (Lankaweb/September 6, 2017) සිල්වාගේ ප්‍රශ්නය – කතෝලික බැතිමතුන්ට ආගමේ අය යයි කියන්නේ ඇයි? පිලිතුර– වචනයේ පරිසමාර්ත අර්ථයෙන්ම  කතෝලික ආගම ආගමකි. කතෝලික අය බෞද්ධගම් කාරයින්ට කියන්නේ අන්‍යාආගම් කාරයින් කියායි Yes, I for one, agree with your answer to […]

නීල මහා යෝදයා දැන් නලින් ද සිල්වාට මහතාට ඇති එකම ප්‍රශ්නය නම්  මේ නීල මහා යෝදයා නමින් පුහු චින්තකයාගේ පුහු චින්තන එළිදරවු කරන තැනැත්තා කව්දැයි හඳුනා ගැනීමයි. වරක් ඔහු  ලංකවෙබ් වෙබ්ජාලයහි සංස්කාරක කර්තෘ නීලමහා යෝදයායි වරදවා හඳුනාගෙන  ද්‍යෝෂාරෝපණය කරමින් ඔහුගේම වෙබ්ජාලයහි සටහනක් තබා තිබුනි . නමුත් ලංකවෙබ් වෙබ්ජාලයහි සංස්කාරක කෙනෙක් හෝ කර්තෘ කෙනෙක් නැති බව […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane  Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi has stated that the crisis in Rakhine state is being distorted by a “huge iceberg of misinformation”. She said that tensions were being fanned by fake news promoting the interests of terrorists.  Many fake news photographs are circulating. This creates a lot of problems between different communities […]

Sugath Samarasinhe  This is a response to the letter to the Editor published in the Opinion page of ‘The Island’ of August 22, 2017 titled New constitution a must”. I do not agree with the opening statement of the Friday Forum which states: The peoples’ verdict at the Presidential election of January 2015 reflected the […]

The Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) on Tuesday welcomed the statement made by Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka that Sri Lankan security forces had committed war crimes against Tamils during and after the war ended. Issuing a statement, the TGTE said ‘confirmation of war crimes by Sri Lankan forces comes after eight years of denial […]

Shehan Chamika Silva Courtesy The Daily Mirror In the wake of the breakthrough made by Attorney General’s Department against Arjun Aloysius that he had received inside information with regard to the price sensitive details in bond trading, the PCoI had summoned him on September 5 to record a statement with CID officials. However, ASG Yasantha Kodagoda […]

BY FAIZER  SHAHEID Courtesy Ceylon Today A new trajectory has been carved leading into the already existing list of war crimes allegations against the Sri Lankan Army that seeks to reroute the investigations to hold Sri Lanka as a whole accountable. The war crimes charges were filed by South America based International Truth and Justice Project […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island September 6, 2017, 10:11 pm A movement named Eliya [light] was launched, yesterday, with former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa as its leader. Its goal is to torpedo the yahapalana government’s efforts to introduce a new Constitution, we are told. With only a couple of more years to go for the next presidential […]