By G. H. Peiris Courtesy The Island The ‘Opinion’ co-authored by Professors Savitri Goonesekere and Camena Guneratne titled ‘Constitutional Governance in a Parliamentary Democracy’ (The Island of 7 November) is the third in a series of attacks by the ‘Friday Forum’ on President Sirisena’s alleged violation of the constitution. In the present onslaught, there is a […]

By Laksiri Fernando Courtesy The Island November 11, 2018, 9:12 pm Have you heard about the Orange Book Liberal, Nick Clegg? He is in our constitution, having stealthily creeped in through the 19th Amendment in Article 70. Luckily, most strange (or Orange) theories are still in Ranil Wickremesinghe’s (RW) head and not in the constitution. Can […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, November 11 (newsin.asia): Here is the full and unedited text of Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena’s televised address on Sunday explaining the reasons why he dissolved parliament earlier this week: This is the third occasion in 14 days I am addressing you to explain recent developments. First, on October 26 I explained […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today The unexpected appointment of our former President Mahinda Rajapaksa as our new Prime Minister has made everyone an expert on the Constitution. The aggrieved party does not want to take the case to the Supreme Court. A final verdict delivered in a matter of time would put the issue to […]

By Sugeeswara Senadhira Courtesy Ceylon Today President Maithripala Sirisena’s categorical statement that he would not reverse the decision taken to remove Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe from office and appoint Mahinda Rajapaksa as the Prime Minister instead is a clear indication that he is confident of the availability of several options. Last week, he told the Executive […]

Sri Lanka News Issuing a special statement, President Maithripala Sirisena addressed the nation this evening (11) with regard to the dissolution of the parliament. President Sirisena states that one of the reasons behind the dissolution of the parliament was the ‘tragic situation’ that the value of MPs elected by the people, was commercially evaluated. According […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala  TIME: What was the immediate reason for calling an election? President KUMARATUNGA: I was forced into it by a total breakdown of cohabitation in government. The Prime Minister (Ranil Wickremesinghe) was determined to harass me and chase me out. He has only one obsession: he wants to be the President. And […]

There has been an unprecedented violation of diplomatic protocol of late. Tremendous pressures are being exerted on a small island nation in the South Asian continent simply because of its geopolitical presence & is a victim of a political tug-of-war between West-East / Colonial Imperial-Modern Neoliberal objectives. Sri Lanka became independent in 1948 through it […]

by C.A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island November 10, 2018, 9:05 pm The President unexpectedly dissolved Parliament on Friday night. The proclamation dissolving Parliament states that it was done by virtue of the powers vested in the President by Article 33(2)(c) of the Constitution and Article 70(5) which should be read with Article 62(2). What Article 33(2)(c) […]

By Charles.S.Perera What a furore there is amoung UNP supporters in Sri Lanka, and Foreign Governments  supporting the puppet regime of Ranil Wickramasinghe ,  since a number of members from his Cabinet of Ministers refused  to work for him any more in a National Government,  resulting in  the Cabinet ceasing to exist? That was not […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA . The illegal activities carried out by former Speaker Karu Jayasuriya since the day of Sri Lanka’s October revolution of ousting foreign servile Ranil Wickramasinghe of the Butterfly clan  (LGTBT+)rom the post of Prime Minister on 26th October and appointing Sri Lanka’s populist politician Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa as the new […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Mr Basil Rajapakse has laid foundation  to build the New Leadership Talent with new blood much needed by Sri Lanka.  His plan and plan implementation worked with minute details with a fine time line clearly and cleverly established. His power to convince the President and the Prime Minister, communication skills […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. Forces of evil – 1956 vs. 2018 Buddhist pig and pork The disposal of PM RanilW on Oct 26th becomes more meaningful when we examine the history of Sri Lanka as a [hi]story of a clash between rulers (white and black-white) and the temple (Sinhala Buddhists). The craving to make Sinhale […]

පරිකල්පන අතික්‍රමණය ; වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  වින්සන්ට් ලංකාතිලක ගේ දෙනෙත් යළිත් වරක් ඔරී රෙයිස්මාන් ගේ චිත්‍රය වෙත ගියේය. එහි දුඹුරු පැහැති ගස් වල කඳන් සහ විශාල කහ පැහැති කොල දෙස ඔහුගේ අවධානය යොමු විය. කුඩා ත්‍රිකෝණයක් ලෙස ගස් අතරින් නිල් පැහැති අහස දකින්නට තිබේ. ගුරු පැහැති පාර ඇඳ තිබෙන්නේ බුහුටි ලෙස නොවේ. මෙම චිත්‍රයේ […]

– උඩවත්තගේ ධම්මික (යූ.ඩී.) දැනට අවුරුදු 35 කට පමණ ඉහත දී එනම්, අපගේ ආතා ජීවතුන් අතර සිටි කාලයේ අක්කරයකට වඩා මඳක් වැඩියෙන් වූ අපගේ වත්තෙහි කුඹුරු යායට මායින්ව පිහිටා තිබු විශාල පොකුණ අප කුඩා කල අප ගමෙහි ප්‍රසිද්ධම පොකුණ විය. එයට හේතුව කවර ඉඩෝරයක දී වුවත් එම පොකුණෙහි දිය සිඳී නො යාමයි. මුළු ගම ම […]

ALI SUKHANVER Let us go back to 2012; the CNN published a very heart-rending rather agonizing report on the painfully insulting situation, the Dalits in India were facing that time. The report included the story of Dr. Vinod Sonkar’s short visit to a teashop at Rajasthan. Dr. Vinod Sonkar was a PhD in law and […]

තිස්ස ගුණතිලක සිඩ්නි නුවර සිට රට ජාතිය විනාශකර තම වර්ගයා පෝෂණය කරමින් සිටි රනිල් ප්‍රමුඛ එජාප නායකත්වයට ‘ඉල්ලපු දේ’ ලැබී ඇ‌ත. ජනපති ව්‍යවස්ථාව මගින් ඔහුට ලැබී ඇ‌ති ප්‍රතිපාදන වලට අනුව, ජනතා හද ගැහෙන රාවය හඳුනාගෙන, රටටම පිලිකාවක්ව වෙමින් තිබූ දැලඹු ගොට්ට (මුන්ට සමනල නාමය කිසිසේත්ම නොගැලපේ) ඉවත්කර මහින්දව අගමැති තනතුරට පත්කර ඉතාම සාමකාමි සශ්‍රීක ශ්‍රී […]

Ruwan Perera Toronto-Ontario Canada  Now, the general public as well as the political parties can exercise their democratic” rights. MPs are merely the representatives of the public. Its better to ask the opinion of the principal (People)” rather than the agent (MPs)”. A General election provides the best opportunity for that. 19th amendment is an […]

Dr.P.A.Samaraweera The President had done the best thing for the country by dissolving Parliament and going for the country. Arrogant Ranil, who scraped through in 2015 by getting a slight majority wrecked the country for 3 and a half years. With his western touch up and with his circle of colleagues from the upper class of […]

තිස්ස ගුණතිලක බහුතරයක් නොපෙන්නුවහොත් ජල්තරයක් දමන බව ගරැතර “ලවුඩ්-ස්පීකර්” තුමා පවසයි. අප රටේ ව්‍යවස්ථාව තුල බහුතරයක් පෙන්වීමේ අවශ්‍යතාවයක් හෝ අද ඒ‌ සදහා අනුමත න්‍යයාය පත්‍රයක් හෝ නැත. රටේ හා ජනතාවගේ සුභසිද්ධිය හා උන්නතිය පිනිස ජනපතිතුමා ‘තමාට හැගෙන පරිදි’ සුදුස්සෙකු අගමැති ලෙස පත්කරීම ජනතාව එතුමාට ව්‍යවස්ථාවෙන් පවරන ලද රාජකාරියයි. එම පත්වීම කල දින සිට රට කරවීම […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS Current political crisis in Sri Lanka clearly indicates that 19th amendment to the constitution has led to a political crisis and it is baffled to take decisions. After the approval of the amendment, many issues emerged in relation to all segments of the state. According to the constitutional provisions, it is quite […]

By Lakshman I. Keerthisinghe A king with a depleted treasury eats into the very vitality of the citizens and the country. In the happiness of his subjects lies the king’s happiness; in their welfare his welfare. He shall not consider as good only that which pleases him but treat as beneficial to him whatever pleases […]

The selling of the Hambantota Harbor to a Chinese Company (Hong Kong Chinese) was done by Ranil against all the protests by the people. Since then all the other issues have followed as pointed out by Wijedasa Rajapaksa

KAMALIKA  PIERIS The sangha had strong comments to make about the Yahapalana government in general and its attitude to Buddhism in particular. The Mahanayakes of all three nikayas went on television jointly, to say that the Buddhist population was facing problems and it was necessary to find solutions for these. (Derana news 4.11.17) Ven. Elle […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, Nov 9 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena, late on Friday dissolved Parliament amid a severe political crisis which erupted in the island since Oct 26, a gazette notification said. The notification also said that elections to parliament will be held on January 5, 2019 and the newly elected House will […]

Mahinda Gunasekera  Tambrook Drive Agincourt,  Ontario Canada November 8, 2018 Honourable Doug Ford Premier of Ontario Queen’s Park, Toronto Ontario  M74 1A1 Dear Premier Doug Ford: Re: Mr. Vijay Thanigasalam, Conservative MPP for Scarborough-Rouge Park’s Statement at the Ontario Legislature on October 30, 2018 (Hansard) on Sri Lanka I am writing to correct the twisted and erroneous views […]

ඇම් ඩී පී දිසානායක  විසිනි අනුන්ගෙන් උදව් ලබාගැනීම සිංභල අපට හොඳට පුරුදුය. උදව්කල අය අමාරුවේ වැටුන විටක උදව් ලබාගත් අය අහක බලාගැනීම ඊටත් වඩා පුරුදුය. මරණ බිය තරම් තවත් බියක් නැත්තේමය. අපේ ජනාධිපතිතුමාද මෙම බියෙන් වෙලුනේය. මෙභිදී ඔහුට ලඟසිටින සගයාට වඩා තමන් විසින්ම ඈත්කල මිතුරා තමන්ගේ පණ බේරාමට සුදුසුම වීරයා බව වැටහුනේය. රනිල් මෛතී එකතුවී […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA Vehicle owners in the country had a peaceful and sound sleep last night, and they woke up for a nice day this morning.  The 10th of each month in the recent past was a miserable day for vehicle owners as on this day they faced a price increase of petrol […]

සටහන : හර්ෂ කුමාර් සුරියආරච්චි කැළබුණු දේශපාලන වාතාවරණයක එක ලිපියක් ලියා පල කිරීමට ප්‍රට්ම තවත් බොහෝ සිද්ධි මතුවේ. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ව්‍යවස්ථාවට අනුව ජනපති ට හා අගමැති ට පසුව රටේ ප්‍රධාන පුරවැසියා වන්නේ කථානායක තුමා වේ. එවන් ස්ථානයක් ඔහුට ලැබෙන්නේ ජනතාව විසින් එම තනතුරෙන් විශාල වගකීමක් හා දේශපාලන අපක්ෂපාති හැසිරීමක් බලාපොරොත්තු වන බැවිනි. එසේම ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදයේ මුලිකම […]

MAHINDA KARUNARATNE America and its CIA the self-appointed policeman of the world is the most shocked and disappointed over the drama that unfolded on the 26th October 2018 simply for the fact that America and CIA has the monopoly in changing regimes, assassinating leaders that opposed to US system and policies. It not necessary to […]