Archive for November, 2018
Tuesday, November 13th, 2018
Ratanapala 14 Nov 2018 The Way Forward and What is to be done? It is time the SLFP died its natural death and so too the UNP. These two geriatric political parties though brought into existence on lofty ideals, have over the years failed to bring peace and prosperity to the citizens of Sri Lanka. […]
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2018
By Noor Nizam – Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLFP Stalwart and Convener – “The Muslim Voice”. 13th., November 2018. An INTERIM ORDER is a temporary court order, intended to be of limited duration, usually just until the court has had an opportunity of hearing the full case and make a final order. The […]
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2018
By Dr Kamal Wickremasinghe Courtesy The Island November 13, 2018, 8:59 pm The political events of the last fortnight that created a change in power structures in the country may bear significance in the short term, but will be unlikely to mark a significant turn in historical terms. In a nutshell, the events marked a simple […]
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2018
Editorial Courtesy The Island November 13, 2018, 9:37 pm The Supreme Court has issued an interim order suspending the dissolution of Parliament till Dec. 07. This is not what President Maithripala Sirisena and his allies bargained for. His rivals have declared victory prematurely. People are agog with curiosity; thankfully they remain calm and quiet. The sooner […]
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2018
By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island Dr. Jayampathy Wickrmaratne is reported to have stated: “President Maithripala Sirisena cannot dissolve Parliament to overcome the current constitutional crisis caused by the unconstitutional sacking of PM Ranil Wickremesinghe”. The report also states: “It is a golden rule that in interpreting a Constitution, the Constitution as a whole must be […]
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2018
By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA . The UNP suffering from perennial electrophobia and utterly fearful of facing voters in elections its Paroxetine JVP ,JHU Muslim Com-gross TPA. Dollar voracious NGO vultures and pro-tiger terrorist sympathiser Rajan Hoole, despite being a member of the so-called Independent election commission (perhaps on behalf of the Tamil diaspora) and […]
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2018
කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව මැතිවරණය පැවැත්වීමට නොහැකි තත්වයක් උද්ගත වන්නේ නම්, ජනාධිපති සහ මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ කණ්ඩායම සතු දුර දිග අවිය ‘ලංකාවේ පළාත් සභා සහ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මැතිවරණය එක වර පැවැත්විය යුතුය ද?‘‘ යන ජනමත විචාරණය (ලාම්පු කළ ගෙඩි සෙල්ලම) කරළිය පැමිණෙනු ඇත. මෙම සති අන්තයට පෙර ජනාධිපතිවරයා අවාසිදායක තීන්දුවක් ලැබේ නම්, නොවැ. 16 දින ජනමත විචාරණ ගැසට් […]
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2018
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge Freddie Mercury ‘s musical hit Bohemian Rhapsody carried a numerous metaphors and symbolism that transformed the band into a global phenomenon. Bohemian Rhapsody” song was written by Freddy Mercury which had no chorus but consisted of six sections: introduction, ballad, guitar solo, opera, rock and outro. Bohemian Rhapsody could be considered […]
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2018
Lanka Lead News අතිගරු ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා විසින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසුරුවා හැරීම නිත්යානුකූල නොවන බවට ශ්රෙෂ්ඨාධිකරණය තීන්දු කළහොත් වහාම ජනමත විචාරණයකට යා යුතු බව මහාචාර්ය පූජ්ය මැදගොඩ අබේතිස්ස හිමියෝ පවසති. අද(13) පෙරවරුවේ විද්වත් භික්ෂු සංසදය විසින් පැපිලියාන සුනේත්රාදේවී පිරිවනේ කැදවා තිබූ මාධ්ය හමුවකට එක්වෙමින් උන්වහන්සේ මේ බව කියා සිටියේය. මෙහිදී අදහස් දැක්වූ ආචාර්ය පූජ්ය කපුගොල්ලැව […]
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2018
lanka C news පාර්ලිමේන්තුව හෙට (14) දිනයේදි නැවත රැස්වන බව හිටපු අගමැති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා පවසයි. තමන් හෙට දිනයේදී පාර්ලිමේන්තු බහුතරය පෙන්වීමට සූදානම් බවද ඔහු සදහන් කරයි. වික්රමසිංහ මහතා මේ බව කියා සිටියේ අරලිය ගහ මන්දිරයේදි මාධ්ය අමතමිනි.
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2018
Courtesy The Daily Mirror UPFA MP Namal Rajapaksa said the Supreme Court’s interim order on the dissolution of parliament was not the Court’s final decision. In a tweet he said he had never seen politicians get ‘so excited’ over postponing of elections. The UNP has a history of postponing polls but eventually voters will decide,” […]
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2018
Courtesy Adaderana The Supreme Court has issued a stay order temporarily suspending the Gazette notification issued by the President on the dissolution of Parliament. The highest court in the country also issued a stay order on the Elections Commission preventing the holding of a general election. The stay orders have been issued effective until December […]
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2018
Keerthi Godayaya ශ්රී ලංකාවේ නිදහස් චතුරශ්රය පිහිටා තිබෙන්නේ ටොරින්ටන් චතුරශ්රයේය. එහි විශාල ප්රමාණයේ දොන් ස්ටීවන් සේනානායක මහතාගේ පිළිරුවක් තිබේ. අප කුඩාකල පාසල් සවාරියක් සඳහා නිදහස් චතුරශ්රය වෙත ගිය කල අප සමග අපට වඩා පහල පන්තිවල සිටි එක් කුඩා ශිෂ්යයෙක් අර සුද්දා කවුදැයි සේනානායක පිළිරුව පෙන්වා ගුරුවරියකගෙන් ඇසුවා මට මතකය. එවිට “ඒ සුද්දෙක් නෙවෙයි ළමයෝ, එයා […]
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2018
DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW The newspapers report that six Political Parties will challenge President Sirisena’s dissolution of Parliament before the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, there is a great deal of commentary by public intellectuals, academics and other pundits as to whether or not the dissolution is justified. Many of the persons who are arguing back and forth […]
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2018
14 fundamental rights petitions were filed at the Supreme Courts today 12 November 2018 against the dissolution of Parliament. One petitioner was Prof. S. R. H Hoole & who is Prof Hoole? He is a member of a supposed to be independent Election commission set up by the 19th amendment in April 2015. Now, you […]
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Monday, November 12th, 2018
On 26th October 2018 a President elected by 62lakh citizens decided to sack the Prime Minister & appoint a new prime minister. He also decided to prorogue Parliament & days later dissolved parliament. All these decisions were taken within the country & had no public protest except for the hysteria from the usual culprits […]
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Monday, November 12th, 2018
Nallur murugan Many questions have been raised on the recent decision of the Secretary General of the UN to appoint a Panel of Experts to advise him on alleged incidents said to have occurred during the final phase of the humanitarian operations against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam(LTTE) last year. The SGUN appointed a […]
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Monday, November 12th, 2018
By Garvin Karunaratne former G.A. Matara Instead of reflecting back on their ignominious past, the Ambassadors of the UK, the USA among others have thought it fit to at first declare that the decision of the President of Sri lanka to remove the Prime Minister and replace him with another as unconstitutional. Later once our […]
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Monday, November 12th, 2018
ආචාර්ය වරුණ චන්ද්රකීර්ති අපේ රටේ විධායක බලය වගේ ම ව්යවස්ථාදායක බලයත් අයිති ජනතාවට. ඒත් අපට එකතුවෙලා ඒ බලය ක්රියාත්මක කරන්න අමාරුයි. ඒ හින්දා, අපි ඒ වැඩේ කරවගන්න කට්ටියක් පත් කරගන්නවා. ඒ කට්ටියට අපි කියන්නේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රීවරු කියලා. මේ කාරණය අපි නැවතත් හොඳින් හිතලා තේරුම්ගන්න ඕන. ව්යවස්ථාදායක බලය අයිති ජනතාවට. අපි ඒ බලය පාවිච්චිකරලා අපිට ඕන […]
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Monday, November 12th, 2018
By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA . The first part of this article focused attention to highlight the stupid activities of the defunct and demented former speak calling on western ambassadors to urge their governments to protest against the legitimate and constitutionally permissible action taken to dismiss Ranil Wickremasinghe from the post of Prime Minister and […]
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Monday, November 12th, 2018
An Anguished Citizen Recently Ranil has been going around the country doing Pooja’s and celebrating his 40 years in politics. As far as I can see he was a miserable failure as a politician. It was like 40 years of mayhem. He failed to win elections 29 times, tried to win in 2010 with Sarath […]
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Monday, November 12th, 2018
“Sad Citizen”. India and China are making rapid strides in Solar and Wind energy generation. When Mahinda Rajapaksa was in power he set up a Solar village and was taking steps to create renewable energy generation in Sri Lanka. Then the Yahapalanaya goons came in and stopped everything Mahinda Rajapaksa had done including the Port City […]
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Monday, November 12th, 2018
දිනසේන රතුගමගේ වවුනියාව දිස්ත්රික්කයෙන් ඉහළම ලකුණු ලබාගෙන මෙවර පහ වසර ශිෂ්යත්වයෙන් සමත් වූ ළමුන් දෙදෙනෙකුට විශේෂ ශිෂ්යත්ව දෙකක් පසුගියදා පිරිනැමුණි. වන්නි ආරක්ෂක සේනා ආඥාපති මේජර් ජෙනරාල් කුමුදු පෙරේරා මහතාගේ ඉල්ලීමක් මත ඔවන්ගේ අධ්යාපන කටයුතු අවසන් වන තෙක් ශිෂ්යාධාර මුදලක් ලබා දීමට කැනඩාවේ ශ්රී ලාංකික යුවලක් වන වෛද්ය අශෝක වීරසිංහ මහතා හා ඔහුගේ බිරිඳ වෛද්ය නන්දනී […]
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Monday, November 12th, 2018
දිනසේන රතුගමගේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මහමැතිවරණය සදහා නාම යෝජනා ලබා දීමට පෙර සියළු දෙමළ දේශපාලන පක්ෂ එක මිටියකට ගැනීමට උත්සහ කරණ බව දෙමළ ජාතික සන්ධානයේ නායක ආර්.සම්බන්ධන් මහතා පවසයි. යාපනයේ දෙමළ මාධ්ය කීපාය්ක් විසින් රටේ වත්මන තත්ත්වය පිළිබදව සම්බන්ධන් මහතාගෙන් කරුණු විමසූ විට ඔහු මෙසේ පවසා ඇත. තව දුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ සම්බන්ධන් මහතා මෙසේද කියා සිටියේය. ”දකුණේ […]
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Monday, November 12th, 2018
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 11(newsin.asia): Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena said here on Sunday, that the Ranil Wickremesinghe government’s complicity in the multi-billion rupee Central Bank robbery” and the defiant and questionable conduct of parliament Speaker Karu Jayasuriya, forced him to dissolve parliament and order fresh elections. Speaking on Ada Derana TV, the President said: We have […]
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Monday, November 12th, 2018
The CHANGE that came in January 2015, let us all recall, came as a result of a campaign that concentrated on highlighting the corruption & lack of good governance by the previous government. Naturally, those that voted for the CHANGE expected good governance. We take the example of the removal of 2 Chief Justices & […]
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Monday, November 12th, 2018
By Nallur Murugan Dear Sir, I thought of writing you this letter because you have become the custodian of democracy, rule of law and constitution of Sri Lanka and at the same time you are always in the news. Internal party dispute between you and the Northern Chief minister is now debated in the open […]
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Monday, November 12th, 2018
Dr. Palitha Kohona Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa has always been firstly a patriot. His priority has been Sri Lanka and its essential interests. As a politician he proactively reflected the wishes of the people who elected him. This is abundantly clear in the way he conducted Sri Lanka’s international relations during his tenure as President. […]
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Monday, November 12th, 2018
By M D P DISSANAYAKE Mr Jayampathy Wickremaratne’s reputation as a President Counsel is now in tatters. He sneaked through the legislation process, by passing Supreme Court decisions, during the late mid night hours of 19th Amendment. He drafted Regulations approved at the Committee Stage during nights, to include the provisions Supreme Court did not […]
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Sunday, November 11th, 2018
සාකච්ඡා කලේ වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග රෝහිත මුණසිංහ සුප්රකට ලේඛකයෙකි. ඔහු ජවිපෙ හිටපු ක්රියාධරයෙකි. මීට මාස කීපයකට උඩදී මට රෝහිත මුණසිංහව ප්රංශයේ පැරිස් නගරයේදී හමු විය. පහත සාකච්ඡාව හරහා ඔහු ජවිපෙ අභ්යන්තරය පිලිබඳව කතා කරයි. ඔබ ජවිපෙ සාමාජිකයෙකු වන්නේ ඇයි? එය හේතූන් කිහිපයක එකතුවෙන් සිදුවෙන්නක්. මම හැදුනේ වැඩුණේ විශාල ඥාති මිත්රාදීන් පිරිසක් නිතර ආව ගිය […]
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