By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island The Jerome Fernando escapade, if rightly handled, will provide a golden opportunity to neutralise external threats to the prevailing peaceful religious coexistence in the Sinhalese Buddhist majority Sri Lanka. I hope that the fair minded reader will not immediately condemn me as a Sinhalese racist and a Buddhist […]

INSIGHT BY SUNIL KUMAR The aggravating news from Canada is  that the Sri Lankan High Commission in Canada has raised objections to the erection of a monument to commemorate what the Tamil community living there calls “genocide” of Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka during the Tamil Tiger insurrection This follows in the heels of the […]

by Professor Sunil J.  Wimalawansa Pre-requisites for economic development and the need for a new constitution The stagnation of the Sri Lankan economy since gaining independence from the British is striking.  This is due to selfish politicians lacking: a vision for the country, forward-looking policies, and long-term national development plans (e.g., for clean water).  The […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS  President Premadasa‘s outrageous attitude to the Eelam war has not received the critical attention it deserves. He did not understand his duty in the matter. As Head of State, his first duty was to protect the territory and sovereignty of the country of which he is the leader.  Instead he took no interest […]

Shenali D Waduge There are several aspects to this issue that need to be understood. Firstly, is the need to ascertain whether Eelam is a quest originating from Tamils or handed to them to use as a political ploy, if so do these external elements continue to control that project. Secondly, are other external players also involved […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. මිහින්තලේ හාමුදුරුවන්ට පොසොන් උත්සවය පවත්වන්නට භාධා කරමින් බලයේ ඉන්නා දේශපාලකයින් හැසිරෙන ආකාරය මතක් කරන්නේ 1980 දශකයේදී JRJ  විසින් ගැටඹේ පන්සල කොටුකර කම්බි වැටක් ගැසීමේ සිද්ධියය. දේශපාලකයාට පන්දම් අල්ලන්නට සුදානම් නැති හාමුදුරුවරුන්ට මේ පාලකයින් හිරිහැර කරන්නේ ඔවුන්ගේ බොරු බෞද්ධ ස්වරූපය නිසා අන්ධවීම නිසාය. මිහින්තලේ හාමුදුරුවන් 13-A+  ට  විරුද්ධව පාර්ලිමෙන්තුව ඉදිරිපිට හාමුදුරුවරුන් කල […]

Sugath Kulatunga Today the Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission will be axed on a resolution moved in Parliament. This will make all so called independent Commissions dependent on the whims and fancies of the subject Minister and create an ugly precedent. Before axing the PUC Chairman the Minister should explain to the Parliament the […]

AdaDerana May 24 (AdaDerana) – The World Health Organization on Tuesday (May 23) commended Sri Lanka for enacting a legislation on trans-fat to protect health and prevent premature deaths from coronary heart disease. Eliminating trans-fats from food supplies is a cost-effective measure with enormous health benefits. By enacting legislation on trans-fat, Sri Lanka has once […]

Manusha Media නව කම්කරු නීති පද්ධතිය ජුනි මාසය මුල වන විට කෙටුම්පත් කිරීමට අපේක්ෂා කරන බවත්, එම දල කෙටුම්පත ආයෝජන කලාපද ඇතුළුව සියලුම ක්ෂේත්‍රවල වැඩ කරන ජනතාව වෙත ඉදිරිපත් කර ඔවුන්ගේ අනුමැතිය ලබාගැනීමට අපේක්ෂා කරන බව කම්කරු හා විදේශ රැකියා අමාත්‍ය මනුෂ නානායක්කාර මහතා පැවසුවේය. කම්කරු නීති ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණය කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් මහජන අදහස් ලබාගැනීම සදහා වන ඉන්ෆ්ල්ක්ස් […]

Courtesy Adaderana The motion seeking the removal of Janaka Ratnayake from his position as the Chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) was passed in parliament a short while ago (24 May). Accordingly, the proposal to oust Ratnayake as the PUCSL Chairman was passed in parliament with a majority of 43 votes, […]

by Professor Sunil J.  Wimalawansa Properly trained labour force with skills, ethics, and attracting FDIC The skilled labour force in Sri Lanka is either stagnant or decreasing with exiting to other countries.  Most could speak and/or understand English, and fewer speak other foreign languages.  Hence, besides vastly expanding skills training centres—universities as described above, the […]