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 […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා ඊ නිව්ස් Anonymous වැඩ පෙන්නයි – බටහිර ආයෝජනය කල දේශපාලකයන්ගේ නම් ගම් සාක්ෂි සහිතව ලේඛණ එලියට – LEN – www.lankaenews.info | Latest News From Sri Lanka බටහිර රටවල සමාගම් පිහිටවමින් තම කලු සල්ලි ආයෝජනය කල දේශපාලකයන් සහ ඔවුන්ගේ සමීපතමයන් සියල්ල ඊයේ දිනයේදී Anonymous  විසින් Dark Web වෙත මුදා හැර තිබේ. මෙහි විශේෂත්වය […]

Shenali D Waduge The caretaker Prime Minister is once again trying to complete the project given to him – his vision was to destroy agriculture, transfer agricultural land and see farmers in jeans. He even promised chewing gum and gold chains to the farmers in Polonnaruwa in 1999. This was the Parakumba era Ranil wanted […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The USA needed supportive persons in Sri Lanka if its plan to take over Sri Lanka was to succeed. Though Sri Lanka did not realize it at the time, Neelan Thiruchelvam was USA’s best link with Sri Lanka.   Neelan Thiruchelvam was a leading advocate of Tamil separatism from the 1970s onwards. Unlike […]

Senaka Weeraratna Give Aussies a Ticker Tape parade as a farewell gesture by driving them through the streets of Colombo (Galle Road near Galle Face Green) once this popular Australian cricket tour is over. This is exactly what the Australians did in Melbourne on February 17, 1961 when they bid goodbye to the West Indian […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario .K1J 6G1 Canada 25 June 2022 Mr.Patrick BrownMayor of Brampton,Ontario/Candidate for Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.Office of the MayorCity of Brampton2 Wellington Street West.Brampton, OntarioL6Y 4R2 Dear Mayor Patrick Brown: I just received an email about YOU which said, Patrick Brown and the Brampton […]

Empire Files Abby’s speech at the People’s Summit for Democracy, the progressive counter to Biden’s imperialist ‘Summit of the Americas’ on June 9 2022.

By Nava Thakuria If one believes in the simple mathematical calculation and minimum political honesty by public representatives  in the Indian Parliament and State legislative assemblies, the largest democracy on Earth is expecting a lady tribal President in New Delhi. As Draupadi Murmu, a simple Janjati family woman turned a teacher turned a politician, gets […]

ජයන්ත හේරත් ගේට්ස් ගොවි බිම්වල විශාලතම පුද්ගලික හිමිකරුවාය. වටිනාකම ඩොලර් බිලියන 130 කි. ඉඩම් අයිතිය අක්කර 268,000 කි. ළඟදී අක්කර 2,100 ක් නොර්ත් ඩකොට වලින් ගත්තේ ඩොලර් මිලියන 13.5 ට ය. කෙරවලපිටිය ඇමරිකන් සමාගමකට වික්කේ මිලියන 500 ටය. සිරිමා දන් දුන්නී පුද්ගලික ඉඩන් ය. රනිල් මේ දවස් වල දන් දෙන්නේ ඉඩම්ය. එයාගේ වගේ පුද්ගලික ඉඩම්ය. […]

Courtesy News18 Energy minister Kanchana Wijesekera said oil cargoes due last week did not turn up while those scheduled to arrive next week will also not reach due to “banking” reasons. Sri Lanka has virtually run out of petrol and diesel after several expected shipments were delayed indefinitely, the energy minister said Saturday while apologising […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Ministry of Education has issued a statement regarding the manner in which academic activities will be conducted in schools during the coming week (June 27 – July 1). Schools in cities and suburbs which did not have schools last week have been directed to conduct schools on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Minister of Finance has issued an order to reduce the amount of foreign currency retained in possession by an individual in Sri Lanka from USD 15,000 t0 USD 10,000 or its equivalent in other foreign currency. The directive, issued pursuant to Section 08 of Foreign Exchange Act No. 12 of 2017, is […]

Courtesy Adaderana A high-level delegation representing the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the U.S. Department of State will visit Sri Lanka from June 26- 29, the U.S. Embassy in Colombo says. Members of the delegation include Deputy Assistant Secretary of Treasury for Asia Robert Kaproth and Ambassador Kelly Keiderling, who is also the Deputy […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The preceding essay recorded the diplomatic exchanges between the   government of USA and the government of Sri Lanka after Ranil Wickremesinghe became Prime Minister in May 2022. In the same month, Ambassador, Julie Chung met with several officials in Colombo. These interviews were mentioned in the media, often accompanied with a  prominent photo. […]

Sugath Kulatunga Professor Charitha Herath is doing an excellent job as Chairman of COPE and deserves the accolades and thanks of the public for this performance. He calls a spade a spade and has already made a few upstarts of high posts admit their mistakes. He is even prepared to propose changes in the Standing […]

Garvin Karunaratne. former GA Matara Stray information on granting deeds of lands    in the news is fairly indicative of the fact that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe has unofficially commenced implementing the MCC Project in Sri Lanka, which he stated he will sign if he, the UNP won the 2019 Presidential Election. At the election […]

By Nimal Gunatilleke Courtesy The Island Figure 1. Sri Lanka’s foreign debt from 2000 -2020 ( from https://www.reuters.com/markets/rates-bonds/sri-lanka-edge-debt-burden-mounts-2022-01-17/) As a layman in the subject of political economy, nonetheless interested in discerning the real background to the historic debt crisis that Sri Lanka is undergoing at present, I have been reading many reports, including expert views, […]

BY Nimal Gunatilleke  Courtesy The Island From left : Ms. Amena Arif, Country Manager of Sri Lanka and Maldives, IFC. Archil Mestvirishvili, Deputy Governor, National Bank of Georgia. Ethiopis Tafara, Vice President, MIGA Lay Rachana, Sustainable Finance Committee Chair, Association of Banks in Cambodia, Deputy General Manager/ Chief Risk Officer of FTB Dr. P Nandalal […]

වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර ලේකම් දේශහිතෛෂි ජාතික ව්‍යාපාර Lanka Lead News වෛද්‍ය මොහොමඩ් සාෆි මහතාට විරුද්ධව එල්ල වූ චෝදනා පිළිබඳව කටයුතු කිරීමේදී සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය විසින් වගකීම් පැහැර හැර ඇති බවට චෝදනා එල්ල කරමින් දේශහිතෛෂී ජාතික ව්‍යාපාරය සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යයවරයාට යැවූ ලිපිය… ගරු සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය,කෙහෙළිය රඹුක්වැල්ල මහතා,සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශය,කොළඹ 8 වෛද්‍ය මොහොමඩ් සාෆි මහතාට විරුද්ධව එල්ල වූ චෝදනා පිළිබඳව […]

by: Simon Wilson Courtesy MoneyWeek Sri Lanka has been hit by a triple whammy of economic shocks and has gone to the IMF for a bailout. It may just be the first domino to fall in a global debt crisis. Sri Lanka is undergoing a full-scale economic collapse and political crisis, with every chance of further […]

by: Jonathan Compton Courtesy MoneyWeek Rising interest rates and soaring inflation will leave many governments with unsustainable debts. Get set for a wave of sovereign defaults, says Jonathan Compton It is unlikely that Barbados, Lebanon or Sri Lanka ever enters your investment thinking. Perhaps now they should. For although all are minnows in a sea of […]

Courtesy Outlook Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, who took office in May, was emphasising the monumental task he faces in turning around an economy he said is heading for rock bottom” Sri Lanka’s prime minister says the island nation’s debt-laden economy has collapsed” as it runs out of money to pay for food and fuel. Short […]