Nimal Tissa Wijetunga Your Excellency, Mahinda Rajapakse, Masses or people of Sri Lanka has voted to you mainly as a Mark of Gratitude to your leadership in annihilating terrorist LTTE and its leader Prabhakaran and it is only the 06th occasion a Head of the State of Sri Lanka among long line of kings and residents […]

By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA It was the well-established, UNP and West-friendly website ECONOMYNEXT that broke the story using the ‘L’ Word—Landslide: “Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s proxy was set for an unexpected landslide victory in Saturday’s local council elections…Unofficial results showed that the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) was leading in almost all the districts outside […]

S. Navaratne   February 11, 2018, 10:01 pm One feels somewhat disconcerted when a highly respected public servant makes comments that go far and beyond his remit albeit in his view to further yahapalana aims. The job of the Auditor General on matters relating to public debt is to provide to the public evidence based facts after stringent auditing […]

 Dilrook Kannangara It is important to decipher the signals of the LG election 2018 correctly without bias. The king (voter) has spoken. But the arrogant king doesn’t repeat! If his signal is interpreted wrongly, there will be dire consequences for (public) servants. Readers must calmly analyze the outcome without hatred or favour. Although voters gave […]

Lionel Rajapakse Electorate has spoken. There is a clear message to politicians who still keep alliance with SLFP. Leave SLFP now”. Yes, right now. Feb 10 election results proved people don’t care about the future of the SLFP and they do not trust the SLFP leadership any more. Hope, politicos who play a double game […]

P.A.Samaraweera There had been an unexpected turnout at the recent local govt polls and as anticipated Mahinda Rajapaksa’s SLPP made a landslide victory. This noteworthy victory should open the eyes of Maithreepala Sirisena (MS) and Ranil, who under the pretext of ‘Yahapalanaya’ entertained the corrupt. The victory is a clear indication that the people are fed […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando The British created the first Constitution for British-Ceylon and crafted the Donoughmore Commission in 1927. It being not very successful, Ceylonese demanded a Constitutional reform. Consequently the State Council of Ceylon, consisting 58 members was formed in 1932, with A.F.Molamure as the first Chairman. The State Council granted the universal […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  පහත සිදුවීම මා දුටුවේ දිවයින පුවත්පතිනි. මෙම සිදුවීමට සබැඳි ඩයස් යනු යුද හමුදා රෝහලේදී (2002 – 2006 ) කාලයේදී මා විසින් ප්‍රතිකාරක කරන ලද රෝගියෙකි. ඔහු ක්‍ෂිතිමය ක්‍රියාන්විත සිදුවීම වල නියැලීම නිසා පශ්චාත් වියසන ක්ලමථ අක්‍රමතාවයට (PTSD) ගොදුරු වූ සොල්දාදුවෙකි. මෙම සොල්දාදුවා මනෝ වෛද්‍ය නීල් ප්‍රනාන්දු සහ මා යටතේ කොලඹ යුද […]

For 3 years’ people’s democratic voice was stifled by denying elections. The so called international community kept silent not insisting on elections being held. However, finally after an island wide local government election, the People have spoken – the silent majority have spoken and the Government is bound to now listen. Though the official election […]

lanka C news හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතාට අගමැති ධුරය බාරගන්නැයි ආරාධනා කල බවට පලවන වාර්තා සම්බන්ධයෙන් අප කල විමසීමකදී හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ අතිශය සමීපතමයෙකු කියා සිටියේ මෙම මැතිවරණය පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණයක් මිස පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ අගමැතිවරයා තෝරන මැතිවරණයක් නොවන නිසා අගමැති ධුරය කිසිසේත්ම බාර නොගන්නා බවයි. හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා විසින් කිසිසේත්ම පිං අගමැතිකම් බාර නොගනු ඇති බවත් ඔහු […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති   මෙවර පලාත් පාලන මැතිවරණයෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ අති විශිෂ්ඨ ජයග්‍රහණයක් ලබමින් සිටින බව නන් දෙසින් ලැබෙන පුවත් වලින් සනාථ වේ. අනේක විධි බාධා මැද මෙවන් සුවිශේෂී ජයග්‍රහණයක් ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණට ලබා දුන් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සියළුම ඡන්ද දායකයින්ට මගේ ප්‍රණාමය පුදකර සිටිමි. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ විපාක්‍ෂික බලවේගය වන […]

MEDIA RELEASE MahindaRajapaksa Former President of Sri Lanka  Reports coming in from all corners of the island, indicate that the Sri Lanka PodujanaPeramuna is heading for a historic victory at the local government elections. I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to the voting public of Sri Lanka who have reposed their trust in us, and made […]

Sri Lanka News Based on early results a landslide victory for Mahinda Rajapakse’s party is expected. Following a successful campaign SLPP Sri Lanka podujana peramuna has convinced the voters that the present government is corrupted to the core and unsuccessful in every field.Based on the election results released so far, the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE On 8 January 2015, Sinhalese in Sri Lanka dropped a bomb-shell on President Mahinda Rajapakse.  Deeply disappointed for the foolish behaviour of his own men and women   and the way they let him down, The Great President of Sri Lanka disappeared quietly. He loved Sri Lanka, he loved Sinhalese and […]

By Palitha Ariyarathna,Propaganda secretary,National Buddhist Authority These days Tamil politician and LTTE propagandist harassing Buddhist and engaged in activity such as name changes of Sinhala villages to Tamil names and further now they are trying to convert name of ‘Naga deepa ‘to Nayinativu’(Tamil fantasy name). So far Srilanka government did not agreed with a such […]

by C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy The Island On Wednesday February 7, 2018, the day on which campaigning closed for the local government elections, the Auditor General Gamini Wijesinghe called a media conference and made several explosive statements about Sri Lanka’s state of indebtedness. His statement received wide publicity over all TV channels. The Auditor General distributed a document […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Alleging that Auditor General Gamini Wijesinghe has issued a controversial statement in respect of national debt beneficial to the ruling coalition ahead of the Feb. 10 local government polls, National Polls Observation Center (NPOC) has urged the National Election Commission and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka to inquire […]

We want truth & justice” – oh yes, so do we. But we need to get some facts cleared first. Can the British Government please explain to the world why LTTE remains banned in the UK since 2001 while LTTE supporters are free to carry LTTE flags, hold pro-LTTE rallies and scream Our Nation Tamil […]

By Gandara John What a circus! What a spectacle! The government has adroitly manoeuvered the forthcoming election on 10 Feb 18 to be fought, once again, on the theme of ‘Corruption’. Corruption, as Sri Lanka’s great bank robbery revealed, is wildly rampant at all levels of our polity. After evidence had been led at the […]

P.A.Samaraweera It has become the common practice for LTTE supporters to brandish Tiger flags whenever they demonstrate against Sri Lanka. The LTTE is banned in the UK as a terrorist organisation. Despite this, British authorities and the Police permit LTTE  sympathisers to display terrorist flags during their parades. During the recent incident, where Brigadier Fernando, Defence Attache, […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Army Commander Mahesh Senanayake said that they would not be conducting an inquiry the actions of the Defence Attache of the Sri Lankan High Commission in UK Brigadier Priyanka Fernando after he was spotted making a throat slitting gesture towards protesters who thronged the Embassy office in the UK. “On the […]

By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana In scathing letter to the two British Labour MPs who had called for the expulsion of Sri Lanka’s defence attaché in London, Sri Lankan Minister Navin Dissanayake charges that their continued support to LTTE front organization is self-serving and pathetic” at a time when all communities are building bridges to live as […]

Article by Palitha Ariyarathna Current transcend of political Changes in Srilanka must be reviewed rightly by its people for choose right president or minister. My own obligation here as an author for this article can be various but Srilanka politics needs psychology change right now as we are going to choose right candidate for specially […]

BY KALINGA SENEVIRATNE  Courtesy The  Manila Times ON FEBRUARY 7, 2018 First of 2 parts  Bangkok: Sri Lanka is celebrating” this month 70 years of independence from British colonial rule, yet at no time since gaining independence in 1948 has Sri Lanka’s sovereignty stood threatened as it is today. One could say that Sri Lanka is celebrating […]

– කැෆේ  සංවිධානය 2018 පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණය නිරීක්ෂණය සඳහා නිදහස් හා සාධාරණ මැතිවරණයක් සඳහා වූ ජනතා ව්‍යාපාරය හෙවත්  කැෆේ සංවිධානය දිවයින පුරා සියලුම දිස්ත්‍රික්ක නියෝජනය වන පරිදි මැතිවරණ නිරීක්ෂකයින් 5000 කට අධික පිරිසක් පෙබරවාරි 9 සහ 10 දිනවල යෙදවීමට නියමිත ය.   නව මැතිවරණ ක්‍රමයට අනුව ස්ථාපිත කෙරෙන ගණන් කිරීමේ මධ්‍යස්ථානවල ද මැතිවරණ නිරීක්ෂණ කටයුතු  සඳහා  […]

පූජ්‍ය වකමුල්ලේ උදිත හිමි ලේකම්  ජාතික භික්‍ෂු පෙරමුණ ගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමා ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලය කොළඹ. ගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමනි, භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේට පහරදුන් ඌව මහ ඇමති සම්බන්ධව නීතිය වහා කි‍්‍රයාත්මක නොකරන්නේද? රැුකියා විරහිත උපාධිධාරීන්ට රැුකියා ලබාදෙන ලෙස, සාධාරණ ඉල්ලීමක් වෙනුවෙන් ඌව පළාත් මහ ඇමතිතුමන් මුණගැසීමට ගිය කණ්ඩායමේ සිටි තැන්නේ ඥානානන්ද ස්වාමීන් වන්සේට පහරදී සිදුකළ නින්දාසහගත කි‍්‍රයාව දැඩි පිළිකුළෙන් හෙළා දකින්නෙමු. එම […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Whatever the results of the Local Council election tomorrow, one important factor is clear. The sovereign people, most of them now well informed largely because of high technology — will no longer tolerate corrupt politicians. We hope those who are coming into politics will examine their conscience and ask whether they wish […]

 Kusal Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Fate of Sri Lanka already decided by other factors that led to the election after this Unity Government  No strong assurances on investments from the West compelled the Unity Government to turn towards China  This Government’s position is no different to that of Rajapaksa’s  President Sirisena continuously contradicted his own […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka has been added to the European blacklist of third countries thought to be at high risk” of money laundering and terrorist financing. Despite intense efforts by some MEPs, they failed to achieve the 376-vote absolute majority needed to reject the inclusion of Tunisia, Sri Lanka, and Trinidad and Tobago to the […]

BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE Shyamon Jayasinghe, in an article published in the Colombo Telegraph (‘The political tug-o-war in Sri Lanka is cockeyed and absurd: only Ranil talks of economic goals’) dwells on the ‘dooshanaya-discourse’ or the ‘discussion on corruption.’  Shyamon makes an interesting observation: One never observes any printed or online media that tries to balance the imbalance […]