by Garvin Karunaratne With queues for fuel extending to miles at Petrol stations, with queues for cooking gas, essential industries like Sevanagala sugar closing down due to lack of fuel, scarcity of food and essential food getting beyond the reach of people due to the 80% devaluation of the rupee, Sri Lanka has a doomed […]

Prof. Hudson McLean Sri Lanka’s energy crisis an artificial one?Shenali D Waduge Shenali Waduge touched on an important point.  Today despite the Russian-Ukraine debacle, oil flows un the Middle East, Venezuela, Iran, and over 100 countries, as in  https://www.worldometers.info/oil/oil-production-by-country/ Sri Lanka is a small fry in the Big Fish oil market game.  The oil business […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි ඇමරිකානු එක්සත් ජනපදය විසින් නිර්මාණය කර මෙරට තුල ඇතිකරන ලද අරගලය, ඉතා කෙටිකාලයක් තුලදී ජයග්‍රාහි ඉලක්කය පසුකර යන්නට සමත්විය. දැන් රාජපක්ෂ පවුල රාජ්‍ය බලය හසුරවන කවය තුල නැත. අරගලයට පෙරදා මෙරට ඇමරිකානු තානාපතිවරිය මෙරට ජනතාව අමතා, අරගලය සාමකාමී අරගලයක් විය යුතු බව සැලකර සිටියද, ඇයගේ ඉල්ලීම සම්බන්ධව කිසිදු සැලකිල්ලක් නොදැක්වූ අරගලකරුවන් විසින්, […]

Courtesy Adaderana The private residence of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in Cinnamon Gardens has been set on fire. A demonstration was staged outside the PM’s residence this evening. Later, a group of people had stormed into the premises. Meanwhile, several media persons were attacked by the Special Task Force officers, while on duty at the […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has informed that he would step down from the presidency on July 13 (Wednesday), Speaker of Parliament Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena says. The announcement came hours after people, calling for the resignation of the President and his government, stormed into the President’s House in Colombo Fort earlier today. They had pushed […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror It was decided in the Party Leader’s meeting that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa should resign immediately.  The party leaders meeting chaired by the Speaker is being held to discuss further decisions following the massive protests in the country. Earlier, President Rajapaksa informed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe that he will respect any decision […]

Courtesy Hiru News Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says the decisions taken at the party leaders will be conveyed to the public and appropriate action will be taken according to the decisions taken at this meeting. unconfirmed reports indicate that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has said that he will respect any decision taken in the party leaders’ […]

Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe says he is ready to step down from his portfolio, making way for the establishment of an all-party government.

Premalal Ferdinando Good move by the President to let the crowd <storm> the Presidential palace and open a safety valve. This is not his palace but of all Presidents of Sri Lanka. In Switzerland this type of visit to places that are not generally open to the public is called – Tag der oeffenen Tuer […]

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara. Mahanuwara  Why The President should resign immediately 1Gota Go home protest was started on 9th April 2022 at Gall Face in front of the Presidential Secretariate. 2 The first Massive public protest at Jubilee post demanding him to resign was held on May 31. 2022 at Mirihana near the President’s house. Instead […]

By Jonathan Manz The history of the CIA (aka NED) is replete with False-Flag operations hatched to topple governments, initiate wars, stage Coups and starve countries into submission.  A False-Flag operation has been defined as a political or military act orchestrated in such a way that it appears to have been carried out by a […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Wellington  NZ I have no dispute with any body who says that mismanagement and corruption have been the main reasons for the current dollar shortage which is the reason for the oil and gas queues and the consequent misery. The COPA Committee sittings televised nearly daily shows that this corruption is not […]

Shenali D Waduge We are in the midst of a political crisis emerging out of an economic crisis. People’s emotions are high as a result of the sufferings they have to undergo affecting their homes & livelihoods. While debt has been carried forward and made worse with every successive governments, no government is elected to […]

Prof. Hudson McLean PM Ranil Wickremesinghe is an experienced political survivor, “Jumping Jack Flash” or a Nidikumba (නිදිකුම්බා), Mimosa Pudica, Sleeping Grass Sensitive Plant or Touch-me-not Shame Plant. Sri Lanka needed someone to “Carry-the-Can” which nobody wanted. Ranil, who refused to leave Temple Trees at one point, took the job to re-enter the historic mansion. He has declared […]

නීතිඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) (සමායෝජක) වෛද්‍ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්‍යයන වැඩසටහන (ඉංග්‍රීසි ජාතිවාදීන් ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ තීරණ රටේ බහුතර ජනතාවගේ භාෂාවෙන් ලබා දීම වළක්වාගෙන ඇත. “නීතිය නොදැනීම සමාවට කරුණක් නොවේ” යන්න ඉන් බිඳවැටී ඇත. මේ කෙටි ලිපිය ඒ ගැන පැහැදිලි කිරීමට සහ එය නිවැරදි කර නීතියේ පාලනය ස්ථාපිත කිරීමට සහ ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය ශක්තිමත් […]