Sandun A Jayasekera Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Maithripala Sirisena has instructed the apex economic management body, the National Economic Commission (NEC) to renegotiate a dialogue with two international airlines in a bid to resuscitate the national carrier Sri Lankan Airlines (SLA) including the old partner Emirates and the latest rounds of talks have been satisfactory, […]

By Dr. Nalaka Godahewa (Dr. Nalaka Godahewa is the former Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Sri Lanka and the former Chairman of Sri Lanka Tourism) Newspapers these days cover more or less the same subjects. Corruption allegations led by the infamous bond scam, opposition to the proposed Constitution, the cry for […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA                       Maithripala Sirisena has a chronic disease of telling flagrant lies, shamelessly denying anything and everything, conveniently pretending that he was not aware of certain things and has a forked tongue to speak differently to the people of the North and […]

ආචාර්ය පී.ජී.පුංචිහේවා මීට අවුරුදු එකසිය පනහකට දෙසියයකට පමණ පෙර අපේ සීයලා, ආච්චිලාගේ ජීවිතයේ සන්ධ්‍යා සමයේ තිබූ එකම ආශාව වට වන්දනාවේ යාමයි.  මා අසා තිබූ අන්දමට ඔවුන් වට වන්දනාවේ ගියේ ඔවුන්ගේ වතුපිටි, ගෙවල් දොරවල් ආදිය තම දරුවන්ට පවරා දීමෙන් පසුව ය.  මඟතොටවල් නොදියුණු, යාන වාහන දුලබ එකල එසේ කිරීම අරුමයක් නොවේ.  තිස්ස සිට කතරගමට ගියේ ගොන් […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera The GMOA today accused the Finance Ministry of attempting to reduce the tax on liquor through the 2018 budget and said this would encourage the liquor use.It said despite the national policy of the country which is to prevent the easy access to liquor, the Finance Ministry was attempting reduce tax with […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island October 24, 2017, 12:00 pm The British parliament was told, on Oct 12, 2017 that Velupillai Prabhakaran killed Jaffna Mayor Alfred Duraiappah in 1973. The statement was made by Michael Morris, Baron Naseby PC, during a debate on Sri Lanka. Having declared that he launched the All-Party Parliamentary Group on […]

R.Manoj Gamage – නීතීඥ මනෝජ් ගමගේ  මහ බැංකු බැදුම්කර හොරු පැනලා යන්න ඉස්සෙල්ලා …බඩුත් එක්ක හොරු… මහ බැංකු බැදුම්කර හොරු පැනලා යන්න ඉස්සෙල්ලා ..බඩුත් එක්ක හොරු අහු වෙලත් නඩු දාන්න බැරිනම් මොකක්ද මේ රටේ නීතියෙ ඇති වැඩේ…….( සිරස News 1st 2017-10-22 ) Posted by R.Manoj Gamage – නීතීඥ මනෝජ් ගමගේ on 23. október 2017

Editorial Courtesy The Island October 26, 2017, 12:48 pm National Freedom Front leader and Joint Opposition firebrand, Wimal Weerawansa, MP, has, true to form, rattled the cage of many a government politician. He said, with his trademark grin, that a bomb should be dropped on Parliament unless at least 76 MPs opposed constitutional reforms, thereby, denying […]

P. S. MAHAWATTE Colombo 5 Courtesy The Island October 26, 2017, 12:58 pm The Most Ven. Maha Nayaka Theras, Kotugoda Dhammavasa, Ittapane Dhammalankara, Thirukunamale Ananda and Prof. Bellanwila Wimalaratne, having gone through the Report of the Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assembly with fine tooth comb, has warned of the dangers of this Report as “it […]

By Tennakoon Rusiripala Courtesy The Island October 26, 2017, 12:53 pm The investigation into the Central Bank Bond issue is proceeding before the COI appointed by the President. It was reported that the Attorney General’s department had submitted a further list of witnesses it wants summoned before the Commission. The list reportedly includes the Prime Minister. […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island October 26, 2017, 12:00 pm War crimes: Cabinet spokesman and Sports Minister Dayasiri Jayasekera yesterday said that the government could act on Lord Naseby’s recent call to Theresa May’s government in the UK to review the much-touted UN allegation that 40,000 Tamil civilians perished on the Vanni front in 2009 […]

චමින්ද සිල්වා,උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින  යෝජිත නව ආණ්‌ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්‌ථාව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ තුනෙන් දෙකක ඡන්දයකින් සම්මත කරගත්ත ද එය ජනමත විචාරණයකට යැමේදී බහුතර ජන මතයකින් පරාජය කිරීමට මහා සංඝරත්නය පෙරටුව කටයුතු කරන බව ශ්‍රී ජයවර්ධනපුර විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයේ කුලපති මහාචාර්ය බෙල්ලන්විල විමලරතන නාහිමියෝ ඊයේ (24 දා) පැවසූහ.    ආණ්‌ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්‌ථා සම්පාදක මණ්‌ඩලයේ මෙහෙයුම් කමිටු අතුරු වාර්තාව පිළිබඳව අදහස්‌ දැක්‌වීම සඳහා […]

මනෝප‍්‍රිය ගුණසේකර සහ රන්ජන් කටුගම්පොළ උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප පර්පචුවල් ටෙ‍්‍රෂරීස් සමාගමේ අධ්‍යක්‍ෂ අර්ජුන් ඇලෝසියස් විසින් මිලදී ගෙන හිටපු මුදල් ඇමැති රවී කරුණානායක මහතාට දුන්නේ යැයි කියන ‘මොනෑක්’ නිවාස සංකීර්ණයේ හිමිකාරිය වු අනිකා විජේසුරිය මහත්මියට රවී කරුණානායක මහතාගේ සමීප ඥාතියකු බව කියන පුද්ගලයකුගෙන් එල්ල වු බව කියන ජීවිත තර්ජන පිළිබඳ පරීක්‍ෂණ  රහස් පොලිසියෙන් ඉවත් කරන්නැයි පොලිස්පතිවරයාට දේශපාලන බලපෑම් […]

Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) today said the interim report compiled by the Constitutional Steering Committee was the ‘foetus’ of a future ‘devil child.’ PHU Leader MP Udaya Gammanpila said the government bigwigs continue to say that the opposition MPs had been scared for no reason and that not […]

By Manushi Silva Courtesy Adaderana The National Child Protection Authority (NCPA) has commenced a special investigation into the incident of a female student being expelled from school by the Principal and the school Disciplinary Committee for vomiting during school hours. A special team of police officers have been sent to the area and they are recording statements […]

By Gandara John 1939, British soldiers desperately defending Dunkirk, with friendly French forces on their flank, were terrified beyond description when the Germans launched a major assault on their lines; the faint-hearted British soldiers fled the battlefield and France in total disarray leaving in the lurch their French comrades who alas, now ergo utterly vulnerable, […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The NGO Vulture Viyangoda further states that they do not encourage partisan politics or allow race or ethnicity based divisions and adds that ethnic identities are completely outdated and irrational divisions for a modern, progressive and forward looking Sri Lanka. The main demand of this accidentally born Sinhala and Foreign […]

Dilrook Kannangara There are two informal types of devolution in the world – devolution of power to the periphery without regard to ethnicity, and, racist devolution. In racist devolution, power is devolved to states/republics/units/regions based on race or ethnicity and decisions are taken by wholly or mostly mono-ethnic provincial Cabinets. There are not many living […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්    එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ නායක රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා ව්‍යවස්ථා සම්පාදක මන්ඩලයේ මෙහෙයුම් කමිටු වල අදහස් ඇතුලත් සංක්ෂිප්ත අතුරු වාර්තාවක්  පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත. එම වාර්තාවට අමතර වශයෙන් ශ්‍රීලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂය හෙළ උරුමය දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානය ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය ඇතුළු පක්ෂ කීපයකම අදහස් ද ඊට අමුණා තිබේ.එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ අදහස් මෙම ඇමුණුමට ඇතුලත් කර නොමැති […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island October 24, 2017, 12:00 pm Recalling the yahapalana leaders’ much-touted, pre-election claim that they had the backing of some rich, powerful members of the international community, JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake has asked where those friends are today. He has said the government is now left without anyone to turn to for […]

By Maheesha Mudugamuwa Courtesy The Island October 24, 2017, 11:27 pm A group of leading Buddhist monks yesterday vowed to take to the streets to defeat the government’s move to bring in a new constitution or to amend the existing one – a move which they alleged would pave the way for the division of the […]

By K. Ratnayake World Socialist Web Site 24 October 2017 Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe presented a constitutional assembly” steering committee report last month. Although he declared the aim of a new constitution was reconciliation and development,” the accompanying debate shows that every faction of the ruling elite is thoroughly steeped in divisive Sinhala communalism. […]

UkrAgroConsult Sri Lanka has launched an open international tender to import a fresh tranche of rice– a first call in recent times to be issued to suppliers worldwide. We are making every effort to ensure that there will be no shortages for our consumers,” said Industry and Commerce Minister Rishad Bathiudeen. Under the directions of […]

Chaturanga Pradeep Courtesy The Daily Mirror The country will get stuck in a federal system if the new Constitution is implemented, Bellanwila Rajamaha Vihara Chief Incumbent the Ven. Prof. Bellanwila Wimalarathana Thera told a news briefing today. He said the Government could surreptitiously enact the new Constitution which would harm the entire country. The attempts to […]

By Rajiva Wijesinha Courtesy Ceylon Today A little learning is a dangerous thing. It is also sad when limited intellect leads to high appointments on the grounds that there will be unthinking support of the appointing authority. This seems to be the case with the current Attorney General (AG), who seems in a couple of weeks, […]

By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana Venerable Muruththettuwe Ananda Thero says that although they are not against the existing Constitution, they oppose the presenting of new amendments to the Constitution. He was speaking at a press briefing of the ‘National Movement to Protect the Motherland’ at the Abayaramaya Temple in Narahenpita today (24). The Thero said that although […]

By Sanchith Karunaratna Courtesy adaderana Professor Venerable Bellanwila Wimalarathana thero stated that the current government should in no way infringe upon the national unity that was established within Sri Lanka by implementing constitutional amendments that will be detrimental to national accord. Ven.Bellanwila Wimalarathana thero expressed these sentiments while speaking at the event held to announce the verdict […]

somapala Senarath  Ex-international cricket umpire Darrell Hair has been sentenced to an 18-month good behaviour bond over stealing money from his employer. Hair, who made headlines for calling a number of no-balls on Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan during the 1995 Boxing Day Test, pleaded guilty to a single charge of embezzlement and one charge of […]

By Manushi Silva Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa questions as to how to build a reconciliation process through the forcible elaboration of an amendment to the country. The Former President made this statement after attending the funeral of Dr. Nagoda Amarawansa today (23). If they expect to establish reconciliation through decentralization of power it would not […]

Mohan Wijewickrama මේ කියනදේවත් බුද්ධිමත්ව විග්‍රහ කිරීමට නොහැකි රට කරවන්නෝ දෙදෙනෙක්, අපිට අවාසනාවකට උරැම වී ඇත. අපේ රට මේ ව්‍යවස්ථා උගුලින් බේරා ගැනිමට ජනතාව ඉදිරියට පැමිනිම රටේ අවශ්‍යතාවකි . මේ කියනදේවත් බුද්ධිමත්ව විග්‍රහ කිරීමට නොහැකි රට කරවන්නෝ දෙදෙනෙක්, අපිට අවාසනාවකට උරැම වී ඇත. අපේ රට මේ ව්‍යවස්ථා උගුලින් බේරා ගැනිමට ජනතාව ඉදිරියට පැමිනිම රටේ අවශ්‍යතාවකි […]