BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Some analysts have expressed many debatable comments in relation to the agreement of the Hambantota Port Development Project, which was signed by the government of Sri Lanka and the Chinese Merchant Port Holding Company owned by the Chinese government based in Hong Kong.  A major point highlighted by analysts was that the […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS If the debt level of Sri Lanka negatively associated with the economic growth, there is no doubt that Sri Lanka will ambush to a debt trap and the country must be able to manage the debt service (interest and instalments) including to the total government spending with a less than 6% of […]

Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror Nearly 186 people had received money from Arjun Aloysius, Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) and Centre for Human Rights and Research Sri Lanka (CHR) Executive Director Keerthi Tennakoon said yesterday. He said these figures might increase as more and more hidden data on the bond scam were exposed. […]

lanka C news අර්ජුන් ඇලෝසියස් තමනට මුදල් දුන්නේද දුන්නේ නම් ඒ කීයක්ද කියා දන්නේ නැති බව රාජ්‍ය ඇමති සුජීව සේනසිංහ මහතා පවසයි. තමන්ගේ මැතිවරණය මෙහෙයවන්නේ මිතුරන් විසින් බවත් අදාල ලියකිවිලි පරීක්‍ෂා කර බලා ඒ සමබන්දයෙන් අදහස් පල කල හැති බවත් ඔහු සදහන් කරයි. අර්ජුන් ඇලෝසියස්ගෙන් මුදල් ගත්තේදැයි මාධ්‍ය විසින් කල විමසීමකදී ඔහු මෙම අදහස් පල […]

By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Courtesy The Daily Mirror This is a sign of just how managerial and technocratic we have become; so much so that mediocre utilitarianism confuses itself with professionalism. And all of this is in place of what could be called humanism.”— John Ralston Saul, ‘Voltaire’s Bastards’ From President Sirisena’s whistle-blowing ‘State bank privatization […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Who would have thought President Maithripala Sirisena was not in agreement with the 100-day-programme marketed by those who toiled to see him as the President following the 2015 election? This has been the case, according to the President himself, who broke the news last week. President Sirisena dumbfounded the entire country, […]

By Malinda Seneviratne Courtesy The Daily Mirror The burning political question of the day appears to be who and how many Parliamentarians received money from Perpetual Treasuries Ltd (PTL) for their respective election campaigns. In a political season marked by scandalous memory-loss some have claimed that they didn’t always know who was depositing money in their […]

සිරංගිකා ලොකුකරවිට උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප ඉන්ෆ්ලුවන්සා රෝගය හේතුවෙන් මෙතෙක් මියගිය සංඛ්‍යාව පිළිබඳ තමන් සතුව ඇති නිවැරදි  තොරතුරු මෙතෙක් සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය වෛද්‍ය රාජිත සේනාරත්න මහතා වෙත ලැබෙන්නට නැතැයි දකුණු පළාත් සෞඛ්‍ය සේවා අධ්‍යක්ෂ වෛද්‍ය ජී.විජේසූරිය මහතා පැවසීය. ඒ මහතා මේ බව කියා සිටියේ අද (06) දකුණු පළාත් ආණ්ඩුකාරවරයාගේ කාර්යාලයේ දී දකුණු පළාත් ඉන්ෆ්ලුවෙන්සා රෝගය පිළිබඳ සාකච්ඡාවක් අතරතුර මාධ්‍යෙව්දියෙකු නැගූ ප්‍රශ්නයකට පිළිතුරු […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today During the 30 years of terrorism, though we lived with the constant threat of bombs, we never fully grasped that we were a country at war. Therefore, even when we celebrated our victory against terrorism, it is difficult for us to understand the great dedication and the sacrifice of our […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today Hamid Dabashi, the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Colombia University states that whenever people think of ‘the typical English’, one tends to think of ‘a group of white people with a stiff upper lip and a cup of well brewed Ceylon Tea’, because […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 6 (newsin.asia): An attempt by dissidents in the ruling Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) to unite rivals Maithripala Sirisena and  Mahinda Rajapaksa, received a setback on Tuesday when they failed to get common candidate” Dr.Sudarshani Fernandopulle elected to the post of Deputy Speaker of Parliament or even get a decent number […]

Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror A sum of US $ 20 million has been obtained as commissions from a foreign company involved in the construction of the Norochcholai Power plant, State Minister of Power and Renewable Energy Ajith P. Perera told Parliament yesterday. State Minister Perera made this revelation in response to […]

Courtesy The Daily News The Bond Commission report does not contain names of 118 MPs relating to any involvement in financial transactions, Attorney General Jayantha Jayasuriya PC said. Parliamentarian Dayasiri Jayasekara and several others alleged that 118 MPs had received money for election campaign spending from Arjun Aloysius of Perpetual Treasuries, the first suspect in […]

By Rohana R. Wasala A recent  article titled ‘Why Violent Buddhist Extremists Are Targeting Muslims in Sri Lanka’ by Andreas Johansson of Lund University in Sweden available at https://theconversation.com/why-violent-buddhist-extremists-are-targeting-muslims-in-sri-lanka-92951 is a classic example of the relentless anti-Buddhist propaganda carried on by the Western and allied media outlets for a long time now. Johansson’s inexplicable antipathy […]

DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA Maithripala Sirisena’s extraordinary speech at a commemoration for the monk Sobitha on 30th May 2018 proves beyond any doubt that he (Sirisena) is a completely unscrupulous, unethical and unprincipled politician:  a pure opportunist.[1]  He will say or do anything as long as it serves his personal and political ends at any given time. […]

Courtesy Mail on line (UK) A television network owned by the family of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was suspended by the island’s telecom regulator Tuesday A television network owned by the family of Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was suspended by the island’s telecom regulator Tuesday, worsening a power struggle in the […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Speaker Karu Jayasuriya informed Parliament a short while ago that only some sections of the Bond Commission Report had been received and that they would be tabled, when the remaining sections were also received. He said he had requested for them as well.

By Meera Srinivasan/The Hindu Jaffna, June 5: Last week, members of a Hindu outfit, ‘Siva Senai’, based in northern Sri Lanka, staged a protest in Jaffna, calling for a ban on cow slaughter and the sale of beef in the town of Chavakachcheri. This is the land of Hindus and Buddhists. We worship the cow. […]

TISSA DEVENDRA Courtesy The Island June 5, 2018, 9:52 pm Having served as Secretary of one Presidential Commission [Sansoni Commission] and Chairman of another [Salaries Commission] I am, to put it mildly, shocked by the unseemly haste in which the Presidential Secretariat buried the Bond Commission Report in the National Archives – where it will moulder […]

Gallege Punyawardana  The theme of this year’s UN World Environment Day is ‘Beat Plastic Pollution.’ Plastic which is made of fossil fuel has been introduced to the society, particularly to the third world by way of development assistance and by now almost of all requirements of living are satisfied by fossil fuel-based products. That boils […]

Courtesy Relief Web The Sri Lanka Red Cross Society (SLRCS) says it has now launched a recovery operation to assist 50,000 people affected by the recent monsoon-season floods, and for the first time it is using a drone to help volunteers gauge the full extent of the disaster. The National Society said in a press release last […]

Courtesy LSE blog The rivalry existing between China and India is based on a long historical trajectory dating back to the epoch of the silk route. Understanding the context of India’s dominant position in South Asia  is important to ascertain the current changing dynamics and the emerging role of Japan, which can be viewed through the lens […]

Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror TNL Chairman Shan Wickremesinghe today said the move to shut down their Polgahawela transmission centre was not only unjust but also sudden and that he would take legal action against the TRCSL. He said he was not informed of the court order which had been obtained by the TRCSL to […]

The Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (TRC) which comes directly under President Maithripala Sirisena has moved to seal transmission towers operated by TNL, the electronic media outfit owned by Shan Wickremesinghe, brother of PM Ranil Wickremasinghe. The TRC’s sudden decision follows a programme on comments made by the President at a ceremony commemorating the late Ven Madoluwawe Sobitha Thero  referring […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 5 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lanka’s Health Ministry has issued a ‘red alert’ on the spread of rat fever in several districts across the island in the aftermath of heavy monsoonal rains which killed 24 people and displaced over 75,000, the local Sunday Times reported. Health authorities said districts which were affected […]

අනුරුද්ධ බණ්ඩාර රණවාරණ මාධ්‍ය ලේකම් ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ ශික්‍ෂණයට වඩා සමීප මුළු රටේම ජනතාවගේ කැමැත්තෙන් ජනාධිපතිවරයකු තෝරා පත්කර ගැනීම ද? නැතහොත් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් මිලට ගත හැකි අර්ජුන් ඇලෝසියස් වැනි පුද්ගලයකු ජනාධිපති ධුරයට පත් කර ගැනීම ද? යන ප්‍රශ්නයට ජනාධිපතිවරණය අහෝසිකර රටට ශික්‍ෂණය ගෙන ඒමට යෝජනා කරන ජවිපෙ නායකයා විසින් පිළිතුරු ලබා දිය යුතු බව ජාතික […]

කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් Executive Director/CaFFE පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන් අර්ජුන්-පලිසේන සමග පැවැත්වූ දුරකථන සංවාද පිළිබද සම්පූර්ණ වාර්තාව කථානායකවරයා විසින් කැදවිය යුතුයි – කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් අප මාස 4 ½ ක් ඉල්ලා සිටි ලේඛන වලින් කොටසක් අද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ලැබී තිබෙනවා.  වැඩි කොටස තවමත් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ලැබී නෑ.  පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට අවශ්‍ය නම් මේ ලේඛන ලබා ගන්නට උසාවි නියෝගයක් ලබාගත හැකියි.  මේ ලේඛන සියල්ල නොමැතිව […]

කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ/කැෆේ සංවිධානය 2018 ජුනි 5   කරු ජයසූරිය මැතිතුමා, ගරු කථානායකතුමා, ශ්‍රී ලංකා පාර්ලිමේන්තුව.                                                                         ගරු කථානායකතුමනි, බැදුම්කර මුදල් ලැබූ පුද්ගලයින් කෝප් කමිටු සමාජිකයින් ලෙස කටයුතු කිරීම වැලැක්වීම ඔබතුමන් විසින් පත් කරනු ලැබූ නව කෝප් කමිටුව අද දින රැස්වීමට නියමිතය.  පසුගිය කෝප් කමිටුවේ සාමාජිකයින් වූ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන්ට මේ වන විට බැදුම්කර මුදල් […]

By Frances Bulathsinghala Courtesy Daily FT Sri Lanka is currently wedged between Buddhist fundamentalism and rigid Orthodox Islam that have made inroads into the country in the past 40 years or so. Both Buddhists and Muslims have forgotten the magnanimity and tolerance of the Sinhalese who welcomed Muslims into the country centuries ago. Sadly, Muslims have […]

මාධ්‍ය ඒකක/ CaFFE බැදුම්කර වාර්තාවේ අතිරේක ලේඛන, ඇමුණුම් සම්බන්ධයෙන් ජනාධිපති ලේකම් ඔස්ටින් ප්‍ර‍නාන්දු මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට කැදවා ප්‍ර‍ශ්න කර සත්‍ය අනාවරණය කර, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරුන්ගේ ගෞරවය ආරක්ෂ කීරීම කථානායක කරු ජයසූරිය මහතා ගේ වගකීමක් බව කැෆේ සංවිධානයේ විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා අද පැවසීය. රාජගිරියේ පැවති පුවත්පත් සාකච්ඡාවක දී අදහස් දැක්වූ තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා, 2018 ජනවාරි 19 බැදුම්කර වාර්තාවේ […]