Laksiri Warnakula   One boasts; how well the nation-wide vaccination programme is going. And then we have another, who tried to get in the way of health officials at a vaccination centre, demanding that the chit-bearers coming from him be given priority over the rest of the ordinary people in waiting (The editorial of the Island […]

Arun Siddharth Arulanandam TO EXPATS AND OTHERS – PLEASE DONATE FUNDS TO OBTAIN DRY RATIONS AS A GOODWILL GESTURE TO THOSE IN NEED in Jaffna. A request came in today – May 25, 2021. Due to lockdown, the Civil Society will purchase from known vendors and Cargills and distribute. Deliveries are not possible due to […]

WION https://youtu.be/xbbwothRgoY Canada’s ‘cultural genocide’ has been unearthed. The remains of 215 indigenous children have been found buried inside a former catholic school in British Columbia. Justin Trudeau has expressed ‘remorse’. But will that be enough?

Sri Lankan Canadian Action Coalition Inc JOINT STATEMENT: June 03 2021   We are pleased to announce that the following Sri Lankan-Canadian organizations have joined as a united front to fight a Superior court case against the Ontario law on Tamil Genocide Education Week.    Sri Lankan Canadian Action Coalition (SLCAC) Canadian Sri Lankan Center […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය කොවිඩ් -19 වසංගත තත්ත්වය මත ප්‍රත්‍ය පහසුකම් නොලබන විහාරස්ථාන සහ ආගමික ස්ථාන සඳහා සංකේතාත්මකව ආධාර පාර්සල් බෙදාදීම ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අද (03) දින පෙරවරුවේ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. සංචරණ සීමා පැනවීම හේතුවෙන් ප්‍රත්‍ය පහසුකම් නොලබන විහාරස්ථාන සහ අනෙකුත් ආගමික ස්ථාන වෙනුවෙන් බුද්ධශාසන, ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්‍යවරයා වශයෙන් ගරු […]

තිසර සමල් එප්පාවල  එන්නත්කරණ  වැඩපිළිවෙලට දේශපාලඥයෝ සම්බන්ධ වීම සම්බන්ධයෙන්  අපිටත්  විවේචනයක් තිබෙනවා,අපිත් ඒවා අනුමත කරන්නේ නෑ.සමහර කට්ටිය නූගත්කමට, නොදන්නා කමට එහෙමත් නැත්නම් ලකුණු දාගන්න කරන වැඩ වලින් ආණ්ඩුවක් විදිහට අපි අපහසුතාවකට පත් වෙනවා. ආණ්ඩුව වියදම් කරලා  නොමිලේ එන්නතත් ගහලා බැනුමත් අහගන්නවා.හරි අපරාධයක් ඒක.ඒවා අපි හෝ ජනාධිපතිතුමන් අනුමත කරන්නේ නෑ.ඒ නිසා සෞඛ්‍ය බළධාරීන් සෞඛ්‍ය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ගන්නා […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 3 (SLPA): A joint operation in coordinating with local authorities and the Indian Coast Guard to mitigate the impact of the possible environmental damage due to the fire on MV X-Press Pearl continued on June 3. Salvors and other officials have confirmed that the vessel’s aft portion is sitting on the […]

By Tang Lu, Jamila Najmuddin Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 3 (Xinhua): On June 2, hundreds of security personnel in COVID-19 protective clothing were busy removing tons of chemical pollutants and plastic from a beach in Colombo. About 9.5 nautical miles into the sea, they could see the charred remains of a foreign vessel swaying in […]

Press Release Courtesy USAID Wednesday, June 2, 2021 The U.S. Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has airlifted emergency medical supplies to Maldives, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka to help save lives, stop the spread of COVID-19, and continue to meet the urgent health needs across South Asia. This new airlift follows three […]

UCA News reporter, Colombo Singapore-registered container ship has released chemical waste into the sea since catching fire on May 20 The Singapore-registered container ship MV X-Press Pearl, carrying hundreds of tonnes of chemicals and plastics, sinks after burning for almost two weeks just outside Colombo’s harbor on June 2. (Photo: AFP) Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has decided […]

By Easwaran Rutnam Courtesy The Daily Mirror @easwaranrutnam The United States has picked Sri Lanka, among other countries, to share 25 million coronavirus vaccines.  The White House said that the United States has received requests for vaccines from countries all over the world.    As a result, the US will share up to one-quarter of its donated […]

Courtesy Adaderana Britain added seven countries, including Egypt and Sri Lanka, to its red list” of destinations that require hotel quarantine on return to England on Thursday, in a review that also saw Portugal move from green” to amber”. Britain added seven countries — Afghanistan, Bahrain, Costa Rica, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Trinidad and […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services confirmed 42 more coronavirus related deaths, pushing the country’s death toll due to the virus to 1,608. Three of these deaths were reported today (03) while the remaining 39 were confirmed between may 11 and June 02, according to the Health Ministry.  It also revealed that 17 […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health reported that another 642 persons have tested positive for coronavirus today (03), increasing the daily total of new Covid-19 cases to 3,264. All new cases reported today are associated with the New year Covid-19 cluster.  This brings the total cases count in the country thus far to 195,811. This […]

By Raj Gonsalkorale Actual independence for the dominion of Ceylon came on February 4, 1948, when the constitution of 1947 went into effect. The constitution provided for a bicameral legislature with a popularly elected House of Representatives and a Senate that was partly nominated and partly elected indirectly by members of the House of Representatives. A prime minister and his cabinet, chosen […]

Shenali D Waduge India created Bangladesh out of East Pakistan. It took just 13 days. 73million Bangladeshi’s were given ‘independence’. So, the question is why didn’t India do the same to the Sikhs demanding ‘Khalistan’ or the Tamils demanding Tamil Eelam whether it was in Tamil Nadu or Sri Lanka’s North? Why is the West […]

Asoka Yapa  As a resident of Canada for over 50 years I have seen perhaps more than my share of Ceylon/Sri Lanka diplomatic representation in Ottawa and Toronto. It is said that career officers make better envoys than political appointees but, in my experience, this is not always the case. Vernon Mendis, part of the […]

Shenali D Waduge They say people living in glass houses should not throw stones. Canada has been one of the staunchest proponents of unsubstantiated allegations against Sri Lanka, simply because a handful of LTTE lobbyists have learnt the art of influencing them through means only they would know &unlikely to admit. In accusing Sri Lanka […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS  Eelam war IV, which started in June 2006, was the LTTE‘s ‘final war’ to establish   Eelam, using conventional warfare across large swathes of land, intermixed with guerilla methods.  It was a high intensity, military confrontation across a vast battlefield. The warring was almost continuous, with few short pauses. Eelam war IV was a […]

Pathfinder Foundation The Pathfinder Foundation (PF) in collaboration with the Washington based Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI) held a virtual meeting in January, 2021 to pursue improved bilateral relations between the US and Sri Lanka. The discussions broadly focused on economic and relations and with a better understanding of the ground situation of the US […]

Embassy and Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka Bangkok To Commemorate the Vesak Day-2021 (2564 B.E.), the telecast of the international award-winning True Little Monk” (“True Plookpanya”), documentary series was launched on the Vesak Full Moon Poya Day, 26 May 2021 (2564 B.E. on Haritha TV during the Buddha Rashmi” National Vesak Programme 2021 held at […]

තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යංශය ෆොන්ටෙරා ආයතනය ඉහළ කාර්යය සාධනයක් සහිත  ක්‍රීඩකයින් හැටදෙනා සඳහා ලබාදෙන රුපියල් 25,000ක  මාසික පෝෂණ දීමනාව පිරිනැමීමේ සමාරම්භය  තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන්  අද (02) දින ටොරින්ටන් පරිශ්‍රයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. එක් එක් ක්‍රීඩා සංගම් හරහා තෝරාගැනීමේ තරග පවත්වා මළල ක්‍රීඩා, බර ඉසිලීම, බොක්සිං, ජූඩෝ, බැඩ්මින්ටන්, පිහිනුම් සහ පැරා ක්‍රීඩාවලට […]

තරුණ හා ක්‍රීඩා අමාත්‍යංශය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ජපාන තානාපති සුගියාමා අකිරා මහතා මෙරට ජිම්නාස්ටික් ක්‍රීඩාව ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා අවශ්‍ය ක්‍රීඩා උපකරණ තොගයක් තරුණ  හා ක්‍රීඩා  අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා වෙත ඊයේ (31) දින‌යේ දී පරිත්‍යාග කළේය. කොළඹ ටොරින්ටන් කායවර්ධන මධ්‍යස්ථානයේ දී මෙසේ භාර දුන් ජිමිනාස්ටික් උපකරණ තොගය එම අවස්ථාවේ දීම අමාත්‍ය නාමල් රාජක්ෂ මහතා විසින් ශ්‍රී […]

Sputnik V Vaccine GENERAL INFORMATION Sputnik V is the world’s first registered vaccine based on a well-studied human adenoviral vector-based platform. Sputnik V is already registered in more than 65 countries. The ongoing Sputnik V post-registration clinical trial in Russia involved more than 31,000 volunteers. Phase 3 clinical trials of Sputnik V have been conducting […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ජුනි මස 2 දින රජයේ ප්‍රවෘත්ති දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ පැවති පුවත්පත් සාකච්ඡාවේදී රාජ්‍ය ඖෂධ නීතිගත සංස්ථාවේ සභාපති විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍ය ප්‍රසන්න ගුණසේන මහතා පැවසුවේ චීන රජයෙන් නොමිලේ ලබාදුන් සයිනොෆාර්ම් භාවිතා කිරීම පුද්ගලයන් කිහිප දෙනෙකුගේ ක්‍රියාකාරීත්වය නිසා මාස ගණනක් ප්‍රමාද වූ බවයි. ඒ නිසි වේලාවට ලබා දුන්නේනම් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට සිංහල අවුරුද්දට පෙර සයිනොෆාර්ම් එන්නත් […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් නිරෝධායනය සඳහා යොමු කරන ලද නිරූපණ ශිල්පිනී පියුමි හංසමාලි නිරෝධායන මධ්‍යස්ථානයක් කරා ගෙන යද්දී බස් රථය තුළ දැඩි ආවේගශීලීව අදහස් දක්වමින් අන්තර්ජාලයට වීඩියෝවක් මුදා හැර තිබේ. ඉන් ඇය කියා සිටින්නේ තමන් ඇතුළු කණ්ඩායම කොළඹ ආසන්න හෝටලයක නිරෝධායන සඳහා අවස්ථාව ඉල්ලා සිටියදී ඒ සඳහා අවස්ථාව නොදී කොළඹින් බැහැර බණ්ඩාරවෙල ප්‍රදේශයේ නිරෝධායන […]

Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Advisory Committee on Communicable Diseases of the Health Ministry has recommended that pregnant women should only be vaccinated with the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine, Deputy Director General of Health Services Dr. Hemantha Herath told the Daily Mirror. He said since there are no sufficient data on other vaccines, the […]

Courtesy Adaderana Army Commander General Shavendra Silva says that islandwide travel restrictions will be further extended until June 14. He stated that the travel restrictions, which are currently in effect and had been initially extended until June 07 (Monday), will now remain in force until 4.00 a.m. on June 14. Accordingly, the islandwide travel restrictions […]

Courtesy Adaderana hirty-nine more deaths in Sri Lanka have been attributed to the novel coronavirus infection, Director-General of Health Services confirmed today (June 02). The latest fatalities have moved the country’s death toll to 1,566, according to Epidemiology Unit data. The deaths have taken place between May 17 and June 01, the Department of Government […]

Courtesy Adaderana Daily COVID-19 cases count moved to 3,306 on Wednesday (June 02) as 738 more people were tested positive for the virus in Sri Lanka. This brings the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus reported in the country to 192,547. Government Information Department stated that the new cases reported today were associated with […]