Dr. P. Attanayake. I am writing to bring up an important environmental issue related to Hambanthota Industrial Zone.  If this issue is not addressed now, it may result in serious ecological and human health problems in the near future. As we all know, foreign companies will be setting up industries in the newly created Industrial […]

Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, After massive damage had been caused at Gintota, to people’s lives, property and morale,  the Muslim politicians visiting the  place, having meetings and expressing their views and promises is – to say the least –  shameful. Where were they when the problem was brewing, when the damage was being enacted by […]

IMRC Iriyagolle Ayubowan, We cannot allow India, any other country or any other force to dictate to us.  The country must develop a strategy to destroy the enemies within first,  the corrupt, destructive, selfish and sadistic politicians who have become ‘pawn brokers’ to remain in power by any means.   The nation should consider rejecting […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island November 20, 2017, 9:26 pm There are many Sri Lankans who evince a fetishistic interest in George Orwell’s immortal works. They may wonder whether the literary genius had a premonitory vision of the future of a tiny, teardrop-shaped island in the Indian Ocean, when he authored the dystopian, allegorical novella, The Animal […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island November 20, 2017, 11:08 pm Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday said the government hadn’t taken any policy decision to instruct the state-owned banks to make bids at the treasury bond auctions at lower interest (yield) rates. PM Wickremesinghe said so answering a question posed by Attorney General Jayantha Jayasuriya, PC, […]

By Chandre Dharmawardana My article entitled Why do ‘Vanniye-Attho’ and NCP Farmers get CKDu while their cows don’t?” produced several curious responses (Lanka Web, 17-11-2017) which fit in with the well-known way in which proponents of pseudoscience and conspiracy theories extend their claims when faced with the actual facts. Basically, they spin additional explanations that […]

Shenali D Waduge  History cannot be kept hostage by lies or kept hidden because it exposes the perpetrators many whom project themselves as human rights angels expecting us to forgive and forget the crimes they committed as policy during 500 years of colonial rule. To depict the suffering inflicted by these foreign invaders upon our […]

වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති ඉවරයක් නැතුව උදේ දවල් රෑ දේශපාලනඥයන්ට බැන බැන හිටියා කියලා අපිට විසඳගන්න පුළුවන් ප්‍රශ්නයක් නෑ. පුළු පුළුවන් විදිහට පොඩි පොඩියට හරි අපේ ප්‍රශ්නවලට විසඳුම් හොයාගන්න වැඩේ අපි පටන්ගන්න ඕන. ඉතින් මේ ලිපි පෙළ ලිව්වේ ඒ විදිහේ විසඳුම් හොයද්දි යොදාගන්න පුළුවන් මූලික අදහස් කීපයක් ගැන මූලික සංවාදයක් ඇතිකරගන්න අදහසින්. අද අපේ සමාජය පෙළන ප්‍රශ්න […]

කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් කැෆේ සංවිධානයේ හා ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රයේ විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂක ගිංතොට ප්‍ර‍හාරයට – සැලසුම් සහගත දේශපාලන ක්‍රියාවකි. ප්‍ර‍හාරයට ඉඩ දෙමින් STF ඉවත් කළේ ඇයි? වචනයෙන් නොව ක්‍රියාවෙන් නීතිය රැකීම රජයේ වගකීමකි ජනමාධ්‍ය ද, ෆෙස් බුක් ද, කොතරම් සැගවීම උත්සහ දැරූව ද, සත්‍යය නම් ‘අලුත්ගම‘ වැනිම වූ ‘සිදුවීමක්‘ ගිංතොට ද සිදුව ඇත. සැගවීම තුල සංහිදියාවක් […]

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lanka C news බෙදුම්වාදී ව්‍යවස්ථාව පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ගෙන නොඑනා ලෙස මොන මත වෙනස්කම් තිබුනද පොලොන්නරුවේ හැදුනු වැඩුනු පුද්ගලයෙකු ලෙස ජනාධිපති මෛත‍්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතාගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටින බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා පවසයි. පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී ඔහු මෙම අදහස් පල කරද්දී ජනාධිපති මෛත‍්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතාද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ අසුන් ගෙන සිටියේය. ආණ්ඩුවේ මන්ත‍්‍රීවරුන්ම මන්ත‍්‍රීවරයාගේ එම ප‍්‍රකාශයට බාධා කරද්දී ඔහු කියා සිටියේ […]

BY GAGANI WEERAKOON Courtesy Ceylon Today Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe will appear before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Treasury Bonds scam tomorrow in an unprecedented incidence. Much has been said about the matter with Government and Opposition ranks arguing on the correct position – that is whether the Prime Minister has been summoned by […]

By Sanchith Karunaratna Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa stated that the speaker of parliament should investigate the undocumented communication between the members of the COPE committee and those accused of being involved in the Central bank bond scandal. He further stated that the behavior of those parliamentarians has destroyed the faith bestowed in the COPE committee. […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island Monday, November 20th, 2017 The government is left with egg on its face, having done its damnedest to cover up the bond scams, but in vain. It, initially, ordered a sham probe in an abortive bid to hoodwink the public and unleashed its propaganda hounds on its critics who flagged the issue. […]

By SANJA DE SILVA JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island November 19, 2017, 8:45 pm On Tuesday, 14th of November 2017, Dinesh Gunawardena introduced a resolution in Parliament requesting that in view of Lord Naseby’s revelations in the House of Lords on the number of civilian deaths during the last stages of the war, “Sri Lanka should take action […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Dismissing UNP’s claims that parliamentary privileges of its COPE (Committee on Public Enterprises) had been violated by the releasing of telephone data pertaining to ongoing treasury bond scam probe, the Joint Opposition (JO) yesterday urged Speaker Karu Jayasuriya not to drag his feet on dealing with those who had been […]

Ms. Mayawati (BSP National President, MP (Rajya Sabha & former Chief Minister, Uttar Pradesh) (1) BJP since the time of its old form ‘Bharatiya Jan Sangh’ has been a party working with a mindset antagonistic to particularly depressed SC/STs, backwards, Muslims and the poor, workers anf farmers etc., of the Sarvasamaj (all sections of the society}. […]

Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror There is no one person behind the bond issue but apparently carried out by a network of corrupt persons including some MPs, Chief Opposition Whip Anura Kumara Dissanayake said in Parliament yesterday. He said there are other MPs other than the COPE members whose names had been […]

By Sanchith Karunaratna Courtesy  Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa stated that the volume of foreign investments arriving into Sri Lanka has gravely declined due to the prevailing political instability that has dissuaded many international investors. He further stated that the only foreign reserves remaining in the country are those that arrived during the previous regime. Mahinda Rajapaksa […]

‘Robbery palanaya’ has been elected into power – Wimal (English)

by Sriyan de Silva  Concerns have been expressed about the possibility that in consequence of the Government’s ratification of the Convention on Enforced Disappearances, Sri Lanka would appear to have submitted to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, and is therefore legally bound by the Convention. Therefore it is vitally necessary to examine and be […]

by Sriyan de Silva  The article by Mr. Neville Ladduwahetty in The Island of 07 November 2017 on Transitional Justice is a complete exposure of the hollowness of the idea that Transitional Justice applies to Sri Lanka as claimed. Further and crucially, he has pointed out [as he has done in many of his previous articles […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE The biggest financial scandal in Sri Lanka now known as Bond Scandal” is continuing to expose politicians who were supposed to be guardians of the rule of law.  However, few names so far published are not enough?  What is the reason to restrict the relationships   between Aloysius and his partners […]

තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි අප කැමති වුවත්, අකමැති වුවත් රටේ සෑම දෙයකටම දේශපාලනය ගෑවී ඇත. මෙසේ දේශපාලනීකරය වූ ශ්‍රී ලාංකික ඉතිහාසය හරහා හමාගිය කුණාටු බඳු සිදුවීම් ජාලයක මතක සටහන් මේ මාසයේ යෙදෙන නිසා, ඉල් මස යනු ශ්‍රී ලාංකික දේශපාලනය පිලිබඳව නැවත විමසා බලන්නට ජනතාව පොළඹවන සුලු මාසයකි. ශ්‍රී ලාංකික දේශපාලන ඉතිහාසයේ ඉල් විරු සමරු දෙකකි. එකක් ජනතා […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් නව ව්‍යවස්ථාවක් පිළිබඳ යෝජනා තව වරක් යටපත් වී ඇත. පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණයට දින නියම කරලීම නිසා  ව්‍යවස්ථා අතුරු වාර්තාව මදක් පැත්තක තබා තිබෙන බව දක්නට තිබේ.ලබන මාර්තු මාසයේ ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් සැසිවාරය නිමිති කොට එය නැවත වරක් කරළියට පැමිණීමට ඉඩ ඇත.කෙසේ වෙතත් යහපාලන රජයේ ඒකායන පරමාර්ථය කුමක් හෝ උප්පර වැට්ටියක් යොදා දෙමළ සහ […]

“Lord Naseby proves 7000 not 40000, not a Genocide, no war crimes”- Dinesh Gunawardena Parliament 2017.11.14 ****** 13 November 2017 Hon Speaker Parliament of Sri Lanka Sri Jayawardanapura Kotte Adjournment Resolution 2017 November 14 I intend to place before the House the following resolution at adjournment on 14 November 2017. This House resolves that, Since […]

by C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy The Island The incident at Gintota in the Galle district appears to be at least on the face of it, a private dispute that got out of hand. The Aluthgama incident in 2014 was also sparked off in a similar way. When things begin to go wrong, the very elements seem to conspire […]

Rajan Philips Courtesy The Island Prime Minister Wickremesinghe is expected to appear tomorrow at the inquiry to answer direct questions from the Commissioners, after submitting an affidavit of answers to their questions in writing. The revelations this week about phone calls between UNP parliamentarians, serving on the Parliamentary Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE), and Arjun Aloysius, […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island November 18, 2017, 6:45 pm We might follow Alice in Wonderland and say that proceedings at the Bond Commission are getting “curiouser and curiouser.” The technical evidence of a CID officer led before the probe last week revealed that Mr. Arjun Aloysius of Perpetual Treasuries has had many conversations with members of […]

By Gagani Weerakoon and Methmalie Dissanayake Courtesy Ceylon Today Controversial evidence revealed at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) investigating into the issuance of Treasury Bonds to the effect that Perpetual Treasuries Limited owner Arjun Aloysius had spoken to several members of the Parliamentary watchdog, Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) during the hearings, resulted in a […]