KAMALIKA PIERIS The Advisory Council to the Paranagama Commission   has made a valuable contribution to the current war crimes” issue regarding Eelam War IV.  The Advisory Council consisted of three international legal experts, Sir Desmond de Silva, QC. (UK) as Chairman, with Sir Geoffrey Nice QC. (UK) and   David M. Crane (USA). The Commission also […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara 15.1.2018. Welcome and Congratulations to Supreme Court. It has proved that the court is supreme and the law is above all including the President. A big consolation for the people of this country. Now going by the constitutional provisions (19th Amendment) this is common sense. Anyone who knows the ABCD of law […]

Chaturanga Samarawickrama Courtesy  The Daily Mirror President Maithripala Sirisena will definitely contest at the next presidential election in the event the executive presidency is not abolished and the constitution is not changed, State Minister of Finance, Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said today. He told the weekly Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) news briefing that President Sirisena would […]

Courtesy  The Daily Mirror The report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into bond issuance has been published online on the President’s official website. In a tweet, President Maithripala Sirisena said the report of the Commission was now available online keeping his promise of ensuring transparency. The English version of the report could be accessed […]

CaFFE Press Statement – If President Maithripala Sirisena still trusts Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, he has not read the report submitted by Presidential Commission of Inquiry on the controversial Treasury bond transactions, said Rajith Keerthi Tennakoon, Executive Director of the Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE). Moreover the Prime Minister has shown that he […]

Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to UN in Geneva Consideration of the 5th and 6th Periodic Reports of Sri Lanka under the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) took place at the 77th Session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) held at the Palais Wilson in Geneva, on 15th January 2018.  Mrs. Chandrani […]

Mahinda Gunasekera Toronto, Canada His Excellency Maithripala Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka, Honourable Cabinet Ministers, Deputy Ministers  and Heads of Departments, I received the following Facebook Communication sent out by the Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC) from a friend in Toronto regarding their Thaipongal event scheduled to be held on the 20th of January 2018. The CTC has […]

මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය කැෆේ සංවිධානය මෙවර පළාත් පාලන ඡන්ද විමසීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් නිදහස් හා සාධාරණ මැතිවරණයක් සඳහා වූ ජනතා ව්‍යාපාරය (කැෆේ සංවිධානය) විසින්  අත් පොතක් ප්‍රකාශයට පත් කර තිබේ එම අත් පොත පහත ඇති පිවිසුමෙන් ඩවුන්ලෝඩ් කර ගැනීමට හෝ  කියවිමට හැකි ය.   නීතිඥ ජගත්  ලියනආරච්චි මහතා විසින් සම්පාදනය කරන ලද කැෆේ සංවිධානය විසින් ප්‍රකාශයට පත් කරන ලද […]

President Maithripala Sirisena said in Elpitiya that operation number two has begun on the bond commission report as he instructed the Attorney General and other stakeholders to proceed with legal action based on the report.

Courtesy  The Daily Mirror Speaker’s attention has been drawn to take necessary action against the Committee On Public Enterprises (COPE) members who had conversations with Perpetual Treasuries Limited (PTL) owner Arjun Aloysius during COPE proceedings into Central Bank Bond scam, Presidential Media Unit (PMD) said. A statement issued by the PMD said it was revealed […]

By Fr. Augustine Fernando Diocese of Badulla Courtesy The Island The group of leaders who came together to get Independence from the colonial powers could not stay united for five years. The destinies of the nation were submerged due to the leaders not sitting together and formulating a vision of national priorities and a practical strategy […]

By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island “There is great disorder under heaven. The situation is excellent!”—Mao Zedong “A Change is Gonna Come…”–Sam Cooke We have just commenced Yahapalana Year 4. The third anniversary of Yahapalanaya is also the third anniversary of the defeat of the Rajapaksa regime. Both anniversaries coincide happily with the imminence of […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy Island Top Joint Opposition (JO) spokesman Prof. G.L. Peiris yesterday welcomed the unanimous Supreme Court decision that President Maithripala Sirisena’s term of office was five years. Prof. Peiris said so when The Island asked him at the JO regular media briefing at Punchi Borella whether it accepted that in spite of accusations […]

by: A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA Maithripala Sirisena in the run up to the 2015 Presidential Election and when he became the President of this country made several personal pledges (forget about the all violated political pledges) which included that he will abolish the executive presidency, he will not seek a second term, he will not stay […]

Kelum Bandara Courtesy  The Daily Mirror AG has a lot of follow-up work to do prior to the institution of criminal proceedings regarding bond scam   President invited a stinging rebuke by seeking Supreme Court’s opinion on his term    How can one claim to be the paragon of virtue when one has allowed all these frauds to take place during one’s […]

Ranga ayasuriya    Courtesy  The Daily Mirror The failure on our part of the world in adopting commonsensical social reforms has much to do with the political hypocrisy. Competitive politics, of course, mandate that the politicians grasp the public mood, but in our societies, when politicians do that, they often tend to relate to the fringe; […]

Editorial The Island January 15, 2018, 8:56 pm The Supreme Court (SC) has decided that the length of President Maithripala Sirisena’s term is five years. Why the President ever sought an opinion from the apex court on that non-issue is baffling. Any layman with a nodding acquaintance with the 19-A would have told him he […]

MAHINDA KARUNARATNE It was a day like today, 18th Jan. 1897 in India, 120 years ago a place called PIPRAWA a city 100 miles South of Lumbini. A British planter and armature Archeologist by the name William Peppe took the extra length to excavate ruins that was believed to have been the cremation site of […]

ලසන්ත වික‍්‍රමසිංහ (0716369828) ලේකම් යුතුකම සංවාද කවය ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාව අද වන විට රට කැඞීම, රට විකිණිම සහ හොරාකෑම යන තුන්බියකින් වෙළී ගොස් ඇත. රට දැය සමය රැුක ගැනීම උදෙසා ඔබගේ ඡුන්ද බලය අතිශයින්ම තීරණාත්මක වනු ඇත. මේ පිළිබදව පැවැත්වෙන විද්වත් සමුළුවක් ජනවාරි 18 බ‍්‍රහස්පතින්දා සවස 3.30 ට කොළඹ මහජන පුස්තකාලීය ශ‍්‍රවණාගාරයේදී පැවැත්වේ. ඒ සදහා සහභාගී […]

DR Sarath Obeysekera මංගල මුදල් ඇමතිකමෙන් ඉවතට..? රාත‍්‍රි 10.00 තෙක් මත්පැන් අලෙවිසැල් විවෘතව තැබීම හා කාන්තාවන්ට ඒවායේ රැුකියා කිරීමට, මත්පැන් මිලදී ගැනීමට ගැසට් නිවේදන නිකුත් කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් පිටකොන්දක් ඇතිනම් මෙය කර පෙන්වනු..- මෛත‍්‍රිගෙන් මහින්දට විවෘත අභියෝගයක්.. පිටකොන්දක් ඇතිනම් ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්‍ෂයෙන් ඉල්ලා අස්වී ශ‍්‍රි ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණට බැදෙන ලෙස ජනාධිපති මෛත‍්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා අභියෝග […]

Dr Saarth Obeysekera පොලිස් මත්ද්‍රව්‍ය නාශක කාර්යාංශය අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් කොකේන් කිලෝග්‍රෑම් 928 ක් කටුනායක ආයෝජන ප්‍රවර්ධන කලාපයේ පිහිටුවා ඇති පරිශ්‍රයක දී විනාශ කිරීම ආරම්භ කර තිබේ. එම අවස්ථාව නිරීක්ෂණය කිරීම සඳහා ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන ද පැමිණ සිටින අතර පොලීසිය පැවසුවේ, මෙම කොකේන් තොගය දියර බවට පත්කර අනතුරුව මුළුමනින්ම දහනය කිරීමට පියවර ගෙන ඇති බවයි.2016 වසරේ දෙසැම්බර් […]

RANJITH SOYSA The response from Sri Lanka ‘s top guardians of the good governance, the President, the Prime Minister and the Speaker  to the report of the much talked about Bond Commission were dull witted and attempts to put up a smoke screen. The President failed in his duty towards the public who were awaiting […]

නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) වත්මන් ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා 2015 ජනවාරි මස 08 දින පැවති ජනාධිපතිවරණයෙන් ජයගෙන ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ විනිසුරුව සිටි කේ. ශ්‍රීපවන් මහතා ඉදිරියේ 2015 ජනවාරි 09 දින සවස් යාමයේ නිදහස් චතුරශ්‍රයේ දී ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතාන්ත්‍රික සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ ජනාධිපතිවරයා ලෙස දිව්රුම් දෙන ලදී. ජනාධිපතිවරයා ලෙස දිව්රුම් දුන් අවස්ථාවේ සිට ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා […]

by Prof.Asanga Abeyagoonasekera* I’m gonna do what’s right,..I want to be unpredictable, The voters want unpredictability” -Donald J Trump Trumpism thrives. It influences decisions with a sense of unpredictability and the effects of Trumpism on policy has affected the entire world. The release of the National Security Strategy articulates and reaffirms his policy of America First. Trump’s […]

Senaka Weeraratna UNIVERSITY OF CEYLON FACULTY OF LAW  2018 Re-union of the 1969 Batch  13th January, 2018 Imperial Room Mount Lavinia Hotel  Welcome address by Senaka Weeraratna  Distinguished Colleagues, Ladies and Gentlemen It is with great pleasure that we welcome you all to this venue. Our efforts are to ensure that you revive a spirit of […]

By Charles.S.Perera Now there are two SLFPs one of Srisena and other of SWRD. Are they the same or are they different ? Let us see. SWRD left UNP to form a politically socialist SLFP -different from the Western Capitalist  UNP. Sirisena left the socialist SLFP to join politically different Western Capitalist UNP. Can we […]

Shenali D Waduge  The term multiculturalism maybe new but the concept has existed for centuries. People of different ethnic, religious, traditions, cultures, customs etc have been living together for centuries. However, those that have reconceptualized multiculturalism have a preconceived plan to erase customary historical-cultural-religious non-Abrahamic ethos and replace it with a newly created culture or […]

By Manushi Silva Courtesy Adaderana Conveying its decision on the reference made by the President, the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka has said that President Maithripala Sirisena’s term in office is five years. The Supreme Court has conveyed the opinion that the President’s term of office is five years, the PMD confirmed. The Supreme Court arrived at […]

Courtesy newsin.asia Colombo, January 15 (newsin.asia): Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirsena’s bid to get another year in office through a Supreme Court interpretation of the relevant clauses of the 19 th. Amendment (19A) of the Constitution, has failed. The court has told him that there is a five year constitutional cap on his term. In a […]