Darini Rajasingham  The Coalition for Economic Democracy in Sri Lanka (CEDSL) is a group of concerned academics, activists, agricultural, fisheries and industrial workers, students, business persons, trade unionists, and professionals based ‘in country’ and overseas, including the diaspora, who uphold the values of economic rights and justice in public policy making. In the wake of […]

by Garvin Karunaratne News is just out that Sri lanka has been taken to the Courts in the USA by a bond holding company, Hamilton Reserve Bank Ltd, which owns $ 250 million of International Sovereign Bonds, requesting a Court Order for payment. This refers to a portion of the loan the payment of which […]

Dilrook Kannangara Sri Lanka’s economic crisis in not unique. Other countries have been in it and some are currently in it too. Economics is all about trade-offs. One basic premise of economics is that resources are limited but needs and wants are unlimited. The way to succeed economically is to manage needs and wants (not […]

Malinda Seneviratne Gotabaya Rajapaksa is the worst President we’ve had. He’s the worst leader, counting all presidents, prime ministers, ministers, chairpersons of local government authorities and maranaadhara samithi. He’s the worst Sri Lankan ever. Let’s assume. Let’s assume that as the all-powerful Executive President, all ills are attributable to him. Let’s assume that although this implies […]

රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන්  ලංකාවට දෙන්නට බැරි දෙයක්, ඉන්දියාව ඉල්ලයි.  ඉන්දු ලංකා ගිවිසුමේන් පසුව, ඉන්දියාවේ දැවැන්තම බලපෑම අගමැති – ජනපති හමුවේ තබා ජූනි 23 ඉන්දීය විදේශ ලේකම් රටින් පිටවිය.  ඉන්ධන මිල ඉහළ ගොස් ඇත. සංස්ථා පිරවුම්හල්වෙත අද ඉන්ධන නිකුත් නොකරන නිසා එහි බලපෑමක් ජනතාවට නැත.   මේ ජනතාවට වැදගත් කතාව ය. ඊයේ (ජූනි 25) දවල් 12.30 න් […]

ALI SUKHANVER The most popular desire everywhere all around the world is of serving one’s own country. People feel honored when their sons sacrifice their lives for the esteemed and prestige of their homeland and it is really a hard luck for the whole youth of a nation if illogical restraints are hurdled into the […]

පරිසර ක්‍රියාකාරී පේශල පසන් කරුණාරත්න මෙරට ඉහල ජෛව විවිධත්වයක් දක්නට ලැබෙන සංවේදී පරිසර පද්ධතියක් වන කළුතර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ වලල්ලාවිට ප්‍රාදේශීය ලේකම් කොට්ඨාසයට අයත් නාවලකන්ද පාරිසරික කලාපයට මායිම්ව පිහිටි හලවල්කැලේ ග්‍රාමසේවා වසමේ ගම්වාසීන්ට හට  දඩයක්කරුවෙකුගේ බදින ලද තුවක්වකුවකට හසුව දරුණු ලෙස තුවාල ලබා අවතැන්ව සිටි ගෝණෙකු 2022.06.24 දින උදෑසන ප්‍රදේශයේ වනාන්තර කොටසක් තුල සිටියදී හමුවී තිබුණි.   […]

Courtesy The Island Mr. Ajith Nivard Cabraal, twice Central Bank Governor and former State Minister for Finance, issued the following media statement last week on exchange rate flexibility. The decision to allow the Sri Lankan Rupee (LKR) to be flexible” from March 7, 2022 onwards is sometimes described by certain persons as being a unilateral” […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister of Power and Energy Kanchana Wijesekera says that a token system to distribute fuel is to be introduced from tomorrow (June 27). Speaking during a press briefing in Colombo today, he said the decision was taken at a meeting of the Security Council chaired by the President and the Prime Minister yesterday […]

Courtesy Adaderana Two ministers will be flying to Russia tomorrow (27) and they will discuss matters including fuel imports during the visit, according to Minister Kanchana Wijesekara. The Minister of Power and Energy revealed this during a press briefing held in Colombo today. He was responding to a question raised at the media briefing regarding […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Education says that schools in the Colombo Zone and other major cities will remain closed next week, from June 27 to July 01.  However, the ministry said that rural schools can function as normal on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday during next week.  Accordingly, issuing a notice, the ministry informed that […]

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