THAWALAMA DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION Puselahena Estate, Kindelpitiya, Millewa. 1st November 2020. The Secretary,Experts Committee to draft a new constitution,Room 32 (Block 02) BMICH,Bauddhaloka Mawatha,Colombo 7, Dear Sir, A NEW CONSTITUTION FOR THE ISLAND NATION OF SINHALE Heeding to a request that has been made to the Public by the Experts Committee appointed by the government to […]

Lt Col. A.S.Amarasekera (Retd.)Puselahena Estate, Kindelpitiya, Millewa. 6th November 2020. The Secretary,Experts Committee to draft a new constitution,Room 32 (Block 02) BMICH,Bauddhaloka Mawatha,Colombo 7, Dear Sir, Why political power should be decentralized and not devolved The observations made by me first as a military officer and subsequently as the Director of Operations of the Thawalama […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Those opposing American rule in Sri Lanka have now woken up to the need to internationalize the matter.  In August 2019, a group of Opposition MPs handed over a letter to the High Commissioner of South Africa in Colombo, to be handed over to the Secretary-General, Indian Ocean Rim Association, Ambassador Dr. Nomvuyo […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS STATUS OF FORCES AGREEMENT (SOFA) US and Sri Lanka had  an agreement  in 1995, by exchange of diplomatic notes, regarding the status of US military personnel and civilian employees of the Department of Defence  who may be present in Sri Lanka for exercises or official duties. The SOFA currently under negotiation seeks to […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS ACQUISITION AND CROSS SERVICING AGREEMENT (ACSA) The United States made an abortive bid, in 2002, to finalize an Acquisition and Cross Servicing Agreement (ACSA), formerly known as ‘NATO Mutual Support Act’, with Sri Lanka. The attempt was made after the Ceasefire Agreement was signed on Feb. 21. 2002. Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreements are […]

Dr. Stanley Weeraratne.Former Professor, Ruhuna and Rajarata Universities. Editor, Lankaweb, I wish to refer to Mr. Bodhi Dhanapala’s piece titled Dr. Wimalawansa’s scathing attack on Sri Lanka’s superb management of Covid-19” posted on 2 Nov. 2020 in Lankaweb. Mr. Bodhi Dhanapala (D) in his note alleges that Dr. Wimalawansa (W) tried to launch some cheap […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ‍ලෝක පොපි මල් දින සැමරුමට සමගාමීව ශ්‍රී ලංකා සේවා මුක්ත භට සංගමය අද 2020.11.13  දින උදෑසන විජේරාමේ පිහිටි අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය නිල නිවසේ දී ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමාට සංකේතාත්මකව පොපි මල පැළඳවුයේය. ලෝකය පුරා යුද්ධයෙන් දිවි පිදූ රණවිරුවන් සිහිකිරීම උදෙසා නොවැම්බර් 11 දින ලෝක පොපි මල් දිනය සමරන අතර ඊට සමඟාමීව ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ […]

සමස්ත ලංකා හෙද සංගමය ගරු සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය පවිත‍්‍රා දේවී වන්නිආරච්චි මහත්මිය සෞඛ්‍ය හා දේශීය වෛද්‍ය අමාත්‍යංශය, කොළඹ – 10. මහත්මියනි, #කොරෝනා වසංගතය හා දැඩි හෙද හිගය නිසා කොළඹ ද සොයිසා කාන්තා රෝහලේ හෙද නිලධාරිනියන් මුහුණ දී ඇති අනතුරුදායක තත්වය සම්බන්ධවයි. දීර්ඝ කාලයක සිට පවතින දැඩි හෙද හිගයට සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යංශයෙන් නිසි විසදුම් නොලැබීමත්, අද වනවිට බරපතල […]

Senaka Weeraratna The Rights of Human Beings (Human Rights) and the Rights of Sentient Beings (Siyalu Sathwayo) are two different concepts.  The Abrahamic religions place a heavy emphasis on Human Rights to the almost total exclusion of any moral attention being given to the rights and interests of other sentient beings. Buddhism, in contrast, together […]

By Barry Eichengreen Courtesy Ceylon Today Presidential transitions are never easy, especially when they involve an incumbent President defeated at the polls. But this time the transition occurs in the midst of an unprecedented crisis. The incumbent refuses to acknowledge the vote as a rejection of his policies and has a visceral dislike for the […]

By Padraig Colman Courtesy Ceylon Today Part 1 I was moved to tears watching John McCain’s concession speech of 2008 when Barack Obama won the presidency. Such dignity compared with Trump’s mean-spirited crassness. However, McCain lost me when he went on about American democracy being the envy of the world. Biden has been coming out […]

Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror Rapid Antigen test cannot be conducted until the Health Ministry issues guidelines on how to use the test kits, State Minister Prof. Channa Jayasumana told Parliament yesterday.     The Minister who was speaking during the adjournment debate in the House said that the test kits would […]

Courtesy Adaderana The public sector has not yet purchased any Rapid Antigen Test kit, which is used in the diagnosis of respiratory pathogens, says Pharmaceutical Production, Supply and Regulation State Minister Prof. Channa Jayasumana. He made this remark during today’s parliamentary session, responding to the accusations on irregularities during the tendering process. The World Health […]

Courtesy Adaderana India has told the United Kingdom that the ban of LTTE or Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam should continue. New Delhi has shared information” as to why the ban should remain on the group that was responsible for the 30-year long insurgency in Sri Lanka but also the assassination of former Indian Prime […]

Courtesy Adaderana The UN Resident Coordinator in Sri Lanka, Ms Hanaa Singer has directed a letter to Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, reiterating the concerns of the United Nations with the existing Ministry of Health guidelines, which stipulate cremation as the only method for the disposal of bodies suspected of COVID-19 infection. She stresses that the […]

Courtesy Hiru News Another 270 have tested positive for Covid-19. All are close contacts of identified patients. Another 198 had also tested positive for Covid-19 today taking the daily total to 468  

Courtesy Hiru News Another 05 COVID- 19, deaths have been reported (4 males & 1 female) increasing COVID- 19, death toll in Sri Lanka to 53. Five more corona virus deaths have been reported in Sri Lanka.An 83 year old female residing in Colombo 14. Died at home.2. A 68 year old male had died […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Colombo district has been the most affected by the coronavirus pandemic in Sri Lanka. The total number of infected people reported from the Colombo district since October 4 has increased to 4,640. More than 3,600 have been reported from the Colombo Municipal Council area. Modera, Mattakkuliya, Maligawatta, Mahawatta and Jampettah Street […]

Courtesy Hiru News The police have stated that special investigation has been launched to track down individuals who have posted false photos of dead bodies claiming they have died on the roadside due to COVID-19. Police Media Spokesperson DIG Ajith Rohana stated the above while participating in a media briefing held in Colombo.

By K. Sakyi-Addo Africa News Network (ANN). A seasoned Ghanaian journalist decided to cover today’s US.election like the Western media tends to cover elections in Africa: Millions of American tribesmen and women are voting today to elect a president and lawmakers.  Two white tribal elders are contesting to rule the Covid-ravaged wheat-exporting former British colony […]

පාලිත ආරියරත්න ගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමනි, මේ කරන්නේ කාරුණික ඉල්ලීමක් ආගමික අන්තවාදී ඉල්ලීම්වලට මුලානොවන්න ඇමෙරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදයේ පවා කොවිඩ් වසංගතය නිසා සිදුවූ මරණ අතරින් 230,000 කට වඩා මරණ සිදුවී ඇත්තේ ආගමික අන්තවාදීන් විසින් රාජ්‍ය පරිපාලනය ඉවතලා අත්තොනෝමතික ලෙස ඇතැම් ආගමික නායකයින් සහ ඔවුන්ගේ අනුගාමිකයන් මෙම භයානක වසංගතය පිටුපස ඇති විද්‍යාවට අවනත නොවීම හේතුවෙනි  – හෙන්රි මහතා… ආචාර්ය […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS LAND DEEDS To accommodate the acquisition of land for this proposed economic corridor, two new laws, namely the State Land Bank bill and Land Special Provision Bill, were to be enacted. The State Land (Special Provisions) Bill was gazetted on 27.03.19.” This is a Bill to grant absolute title to state lands held […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The Prime Minister office made a statement on the MCC project in June 2019. The statement was made public.     The statement said: The Government of Sri Lanka, with the help of the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University, conducted constraints analysis to identify constrains which hampered the economic growth in the […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS TheMillennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) is a  foreign aid agency established by the U.S. Congress in 2004. The MCC Board is chaired by the Secretary of State. The Board members consist of the Secretary of the Treasury, US trade representative, four private sector representatives and a representative of USAID. MCC is  therefore not the […]

ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර අග්‍රාමාත්‍යතුමාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් රු.මිලියන හයසීයක ඉන්දු-ලංකා ප්‍රජා සංවර්ධන ව්‍යාපෘති ගිවිසුම අලුත්වෙයි -අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය ඉන්දියානු ආධාර ප්‍රදාන යටතේ රුපියල් මිලියන හයසීයකට අධික වියදමකින් මෙරට ක්‍රියාත්මක කරන ප්‍රජා සංවර්ධන ව්‍යාපෘති සඳහා ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සහ ඉන්දියාව අද 2020.11.10 දින අවබෝධතා ගිවිසුමකට එළැඹිණි. මුදල් අමාත්‍යංශ ලේකම් එස්.ආර්.ආටිගල මහතා හා මෙරට ඉන්දීය මහ කොමසාරිස් ගෝපාල් බාග්ලේ මහතා […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia The test kits give the result in 15 minutes  The Sri Lankan State Minister of Pharmaceutical Production, Supply and Regulation, Professor Channa Jayasumana has said that on November 9, Sri Lanka received 100,000 Rapid Antigen Test kits as a donation from India for the early detection of the COVID-19 virus. The donation has […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island ‘We shouldn’t seek exclusive rights during a grave crisis’ SLPP (Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna) National List MP Mohammed Muzammil yesterday strongly urged the government not to resume burial of Muslim corona victims under any circumstances, though a section of the Muslim community is demanding that Muslim covid-19 victims be […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s coronavirus death toll has risen as two more deaths were confirmed by the Department of Government Information. Both patients had been receiving treatment at the Mulleriyawa Hospital upon being diagnosed with COVID-19. One of the deceased is a 54-year-old male from the Colombo 12 area. His cause of death is determined […]

Courtesy Hiru News Former Sri Lankan Ambassador to the United States Jaliya Wickramasuriya says that the Financial Crimes Investigation Division has misled the court and obtained a warrant against him for political revenge. He was giving evidence from the United States via Skype technology before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing into political victimization.

Courtesy Hiru News Another 92 have tested positive for Covid-19. All are close contacts of previous patients. Army Commander Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva has stated that another 277 have tested positive for COVID-19. All of them have been identified to be close contacts of previous patients.