BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS WANIGASEKERA Social, religious and political issues have been associated with the Catholic Church, which arrived in Sri Lanka with the invasion of the Portuguese in 1505, and the church had several conflicts with the government. Historical information related to the Christian churches in Sri Lanka evidence that the church always attempted to […]

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Garvin Karunaratne, Phd Michigan State University I would request our leaders- the President, the Prime Minister and the Governor of the Central Bank  to please consider approving the implementation of a new programme to create employment and also create the production of all items that we imported. It could be on the lines of the […]

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Professor Dr. Nishan C. Wijesinha (Sarasota) I can recall back to when Mr. Wickremesinghe was made the Minister of Education on 14 February 1980; where Mr. Wickremesinghe promised educational reforms. We were then studying for our A/L’s at STC Mount; and all of us with the O/L batch sent a communique requesting that O/L curriculum […]

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 Lanka Lead News විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් ගෙනඑන ලබන ව්‍යවස්ථා මගෝඩියට මේ රටේ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රීවරු ගොදුරු නොවිය යුතු බවත් එසේ වුවහොත් මෙරටේ ජනතාව මන්ත්‍රීවරුන්ගේ කාර්යභාරය භෞතික වශයෙන් අවසන් කිරීමට කටයුතු කරනු ඇති බවත් වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා සදහන් කළේය. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ සිදුවූ ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධන මගෝඩි පිළිබඳව සහ විශේෂයෙන්ම විජයදාස රාජපක්ෂ මහතා අධිකරණ ඇමතිවරයා ලෙස සිදු […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Beleaguered former Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa returned to the island a short while ago (Sep 02), Ada Derana correspondent says. Rajapaksa fled the country after months-long mass public demonstrations demanding his immediate resignation gained momentum in July after protesters stormed the President’s House in Colombo and several other state buildings in the […]

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Courtesy Hiru News Developing Countries Trading Scheme will offer Sri Lanka the opportunity to benefit from duty- free schees for a range of goods exported to UK according to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has stated this while sending a congratulatory message to the President. The UK Government […]

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Courtesy Hiru News 02 September 2022: Fitch Ratings-Hong Kong releasing a statement titled “Onus on Debt Negotiations after Sri Lanka’s IMF Staff Agreement” comments on the IMF agreement and the current context in Sri Lanka. The Text of the Statement is as follows; The IMF staff-level agreement with Sri Lanka on a USD2.9 billion programme, […]

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Courtesy Hiru News Chinese embassy states that they have been always encouraging the IMF and other international financial institutions to continue to play a positive role in Sri Lanka. As a traditional friendly neighbor of Sri Lanka and a major shareholder of the International Monetary Fund, China has been always encouraging the IMF and other international […]

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