Editorial Courtesy The Island Monday 28th May, 2018 Has a single category of public workers been able to remain untainted by bribery? Pose this question to a random sample of people and their answer will be an emphatic ‘no’. It is only natural that they have no high opinion of state employees or tend to tar […]

By Dr Nalaka Godahewa Courtesy The Island American economist and social theorist Thomas Sowell once said,  “The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or men and women, but between talkers and doers ” When a powerful minister of the government gets into a panic and issues a press statement criticizing a […]

By C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy The Island May 27, 2018, 9:24 pm As the month of June approaches, we realise that the incumbent President now has only 18 full months in office before the last date by which a presidential election should be held and a new president declared elected. According to Article 31(3) of the Constitution, the […]

Courtesy scroll.in The British Foreign Office confirmed that it destroyed 195 files on the island country, dating from 1978 to 1980. The United Kingdom’s Foreign Office destroyed almost 200 files on the rise of the separatist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the role of the British spy agency MI5 and Secret Air Service in […]

Thilanka Kanakarathna Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa questioned the country’s law and order stating that there is no purpose if it doesn’t protect the people. While expressing his condolence on Saturday over the tragic assassination of cricketer Dhananjaya de Silva’s father – Ranjan de Silva, MP Rajapaksa said authorities should take the matter […]

Darshana Sanjeewa Courtesy The Daily Mirror A dispenser of the Anuradhapura Prisons Hospital had allegedly attacked the leader of the Mahasohon Balakaya, Amith Weerasinghe, while at the Prisons Hospital. Amith Weerasinghe was arrested and remanded in connection with riots in Digana, Kandy. Prisons Spokesman T.N. Upuldeniya said that a dispenser of the Prison Hospital had allegedly […]

By Charunya Rajakaruna Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) will not support any further cuts in the Executive Presidential powers through the 20th Amendment, said the Western Province Chief Minister Isura Devapriya. He stated this yesterday (26), attending a press conference In Colombo. According to him, it was the SLFP which spoke out first for abolishing […]

Once upon a time things were simple. We had governments & they were represented by officials. It was a one to one direct dialogue. All that has changed & there are groups and groups peddling all types of issues on behalf of others. They are acting as go-betweens and paid handsomely to ensure deals come […]

Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington DC As you are aware, heavy pre-monsoon rains in Sri Lanka have caused severe flooding and the threat of landslides. As of today, at least twenty lives have been lost, and 153,712 people (40,017 families) have been affected in 20 districts. The government is evacuating people in low-lying areas. Four […]

 Shell Shock to Palali Syndrome- PTSD Sri Lankan Experience Author- Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge   Published by  Godage International Publishers (Pvt.) Ltd  Shell Shock to Palali Syndrome is an impressive endeavour to put together all experiences from different dramatic and tragic situations in war impacted society. This book is for me the monumental example of sufferings all kinds of […]

By A. Abdul Aziz. Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad says Ahmadi Muslims will continue to respond to all forms of provocation and injustice with prayers and peace According to our Press Department U.K., the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad has strongly condemned an attack (on […]

by C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy The Island May 26, 2018, 7:54 pm A few days ago, the government gazetted an amendment to the Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act, No. 25 of 2002. Most members of the public would not see anything amiss with this, because the generally prevalent view in society is that Sri Lanka is a […]

ඩබ්ලිව්. කේ. ප්‍රසාද් මංජු උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම ශ්‍රී ලංකා-සිංගප්පූරු නිදහස් වෙළෙඳ ගිවිසුම ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමේ ප්‍රධානියා වශයෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ හිටපු අධිපති අර්ජුන මහේන්ද්‍රන් මහතා සිංගප්පූරුවේ සිට කටයුතු කරන්නේ කුමන පදනමකින්ද යන්නත් ඔහුට…එවැනි බලයක් ලබාදී ඇත්නම් එය කවුරුන් විසින් කරන ලද්දක්දැයි ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතාට පැමිණිලි කිරීමට ජාතික ආණ්ඩුවෙන් ඉවත් වූ ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්‍ෂයේ 16 කණ්ඩායම […]

දඹුල්ල – කේ. කේ. ආරියදාස උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම ගොන්නු පව්ය. ගොන්නු කීවාට ගොන්නුම නොව, කිරි හරක්ය. මේ කිරි හරක් ගෙනාවේ රටින්ය. රුපියල් බිලියන ගණනක් වියදම් කරය. කීවේ රටේ කිරි ගොවියා ආර්ථිකව ශක්තිමත් කිරීමට ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාවෙන් ගෙනාවා කියාය. කුජීත, කොල්ලකාර, ආණ්ඩුව ගෙදර යවා අප විසින්ම පත් කරගත් යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුවක් කිරි ගොවියා කෙළින් කරවීමේ පට්ටන්දරය දිගහැරියේ වෙඩි පුපුරන තරම් සද්දයෙන්ය. […]

ප්‍රගීත් සම්පත් කරුණාතිලක උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම ඔබ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඇවිත් කෙටි කාලයයි. මේ කෙටි කාලය තුළ විප්ලවයක් කරන්නයි හදන්නේ. ඇත්තටම මොකක්ද මේ විප්ලවය..? අපි ගොඩනැඟුණේ ප්‍රාදේශීය ජනතාවගේ ඡන්දයෙන්. එයාලගේ ඉල්ලීම්වලින්. අපි හැමදාම කරන්න ඕනෑ ඒ ජනතාව වෙනුවෙන් දේශපාලනය කරන එකයි. එහෙම නැතිව ඒ ජනතාව රවටලා දේශපාලනය කරලා අපට හුරු නැහැ. ඒ ජනතාවගේ ඕනෑ එපාකම් එක්ක සටන් කරලා ඒ […]

By Manushi Silva Courtesy Adaderana Nearly 53,712 persons belonging to 40,017 families have been affected due to the heavy pre-monsoon rains across Sri Lanka in 19 districts, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said. The death toll due to the severe weather condition has risen to 19, the DMC said in its latest update. A total of 84,943 […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS British rulers mistakenly considered that behavioural nature of Sri Lankans was similar to Indians and when Indians learn democracy, people of Sri Lanka also will be learned, however it was a baseless assumption and the behavioural pattern of Sri Lankans and their attitudes towards a variety of issues are quite different. The […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS When I visited Sri Lanka recently, I had an opportunity to talk with different people in the country and also talked to several Sri Lankans who are living in overseas.  The main opinion of the majority was Sri Lanka needs a partial dictatorship for efficient and clean administration as the majority of […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge  Meditation refers to a family of practices that may share many similarities, but can have differences in underlying methods and goals (Olex et al., 2013). Meditation practice is difficult to access because of its countless forms of appearances originating from the complexity of cultures it has to serve (Fell et al., […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  ජෝසෆ් ස්ටාලින් සෝවියට් දේශයේ සාමූහික වියසනයක් ඇති කරන ලද නිර්මාපකයා විය​. ආඥාදායකයෙකු වූ ස්ටාලින් විසින් මිලියන ගනනක් ජනතාව මරා දැමුවේය​. එසේම මිලියන ගනනක් ගුලාග් ශ්‍රම කඳවුරු වල සිරගත කලේය​. එහෙත් ජෝසෆ් ස්ටාලින් රුසියාව තුල තවමත් ගෞරවයට ලක් වන නායකයෙකි. මොස්කව් ටයිම්ස් පුවත් පත වාර්තා කරන පරිදි 2012 වසරේදී පවත්වන ලද සමීක්‍ෂණයක් […]

According to the Lancet study, Pakistan ranks 154th among 195 countries in terms of accessibility and quality of healthcare, far behind its South Asian counterparts India, Bangladesh, and Sri-Lanka. The study carried out by renowned journal The Lancet says that Pakistan has improved in health care access and quality since 1990. Pakistan’s Health Access Quality (HAQ) index […]

BY MAREX  On Wednesday, Sri Lanka’s development and trade minister Malik Samarawickrama confirmed that Chinese investors have been cleared to build a $700 million natural gas-powered electrical station in the Chinese-run port of Hambantota. He first announced plans for Chinese state-owned engineering company Sinomach to build the plant earlier this month. The 400-gigawatt power plant will be fueled […]

COLOMBO (Reuters) – Sri Lanka has accepted an eight-year China Development Bank $1 billion syndicated loan to repay loans maturing this year, two top Finance Ministry officials said on Friday. The bank was chosen from among four bidding for the loan, which the government plans to use towards repaying other loans, one official told Reuters. […]

By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island UPFA MP Dayasiri Jayasekara yesterday admitted in Parliament that he received one million rupee Cheque from Walt & Row Associates. Making a statement in Parliament he said that there had been a newspaper report to the effect that he had obtained the cash cheque from Walt & Row associated with […]

උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම අද පවතින මේ සමාජ තලය තුළ ජාතියක් ගොඩනැඟෙන්නේ ගුරුවරුන් දරුවන්ට සලකන ආකාරය අනුවයි. හොඳින් විභාගය සමත් වන විවිධ කුසලතාවන් හැකියාවන්, දක්ෂතාවන් පෙන්වන දරුවන් පමණද අවධානයට යොමුවන්නේ. මා සිතන ආකාරයට විභාග ජයගන්න කුසලතාවන් හැකියාවන් පෙන්වන දරුවන්ට වඩා විභාග ජය ගැනීමට බැරි කුසලතාවක් හැකියාවක් නැති දරුවන් කෙරෙහි වැඩි අවධානයක් යොමු කළ යුතු බව ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රිපාල […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today A couple  of old news items that have gone viral  on the internet,  hit the writer’s mail box too, the other day based on Indian politics, which are very much congruent with the current Sri Lankan political culture. One incident reported by ANI/TW on 23 November 2017, described […]

By Gomin Dayasiri Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colloquial Sinhala is an exotic dialect when phrases are enunciated in the vernacular with the input of a smattering Anglo-Saxon linguistics that, leads to-‘Broken English’. Sounds more the railcar ‘burgher-ism’ than an outpouring of intones from the Dutch Burgher Union. Parts of the 19th Amendment are on the verge […]

By Shehan Chamika Silva Courtesy The Daily Mirror According to a further report (B report) filed into the magisterial inquiry over the Bond scam by the prosecution today, it was revealed that UPFA Parliamentarian Dayasiri Jayasekara had received a cheque of Rs.1 million from Walt & Row Associates-a Perpetual Treasuries Ltd related group company in 2015. […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara President Senior Citizens Movement Mahanuwara 24. 5.2018 We all know that all right thinking and sane Tamils and Muslims accept that this is the land of the Sinhala people (Sinhaladveepa or Lankadveepa) as it had been known for the past 2500 years or more.  I don’t think there is any debate over […]