Archive for April, 2024
Saturday, April 20th, 2024
By KELUM BANDARA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, April 20 (Daily Mirror) – The representatives of bondholders who hold around 50 per cent of Sri Lanka’s outstanding international sovereign bonds (ISB), during closed-door interactions with the representatives of Sri Lankan political parties, have expressed fear whether any debt restructuring agreement will be honoured in case of a […]
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Saturday, April 20th, 2024
Dilrook Kannangara Will this be the end of the IMF program? Before this SL had 16 IMF programs – all failed half way through the program! Bond holders own 50% of foreign loans and these are the loans with highest interest rates and administration fees. A debt restructure without them is like a wedding without […]
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Saturday, April 20th, 2024
Politics In Haiti, after the state borrowed money in the 1970s and 1980s to feed corruption and sustain autocracy, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) pushed subsequent democratic governments to privilege the free market, while opening ever more quickly to the global economy. Sensing opportunity, non-governmental organizations streamed into Haiti to provide food, housing, and health […]
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Saturday, April 20th, 2024
By John Feffer Courtesy Tomdispatch.com Haiti has descended into chaos. It’s had no president or parliament — and no elections either –for eight long years. Its unelected prime minister Ariel Henry resigned recently when gang violence at the airport in Port-au-Prince made it impossible for him to return to the country after a trip to […]
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Thursday, April 18th, 2024
Shenali D Waduge Like Sri Lanka, Greece too declared default on €1.6 billion debt to IMF. It was the same year US-India sponsored regime change took place in Sri Lanka. Greece’s default came exactly 15 years after joining the Eurozone. Both Greece & Sri Lanka had one thing in common – both guilty of systematic […]
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Thursday, April 18th, 2024
KAMALIKA PIERIS Buddhists in Sri Lanka should be made aware of the stature of Buddhism in the Asian region when discussing the Kurundi issue. Buddhism enjoys a unique place in Asian history as the single shared experience among half the world’s population. No other movement has equaled the degree to which Buddhism has affected nearly […]
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Thursday, April 18th, 2024
ෆීන්ක්ස් නීති සාර සංග්රහය නීති ග්රන්ථ ගණනාවක් ලියා ඇති, විද්යුත් සහ මුද්රිත මාධ්යයේ නීතිය පිළිබඳ ලිපි ලියන, නිතිය පිළිබඳ අධ්යාපන වැඩසටහන්, වැඩමුළු පවත්වන කොළඹ විශ්ව විද්යාලයේ විද්යාවේදී උපාධියක් සහ උපදේශනය පිළිබඳ පශ්චාත් උපාධි ඩිප්ලෝමාවක් ලබා ඇති නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන විසින් සාධාරණ නඩු විභාගයක් පැවැත්ම සහ මූලධර්ම ආරක්ෂා කර ගැනීම සඳහා වන පනත් කෙටුම්පතක් අධිකරණ […]
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Thursday, April 18th, 2024
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Thursday, April 18th, 2024
Shenali Waduge Who are promoting LGBTQ among adults & children & influencing governments? Gender Dysphoria-Sex Change-LGBTQ is a BUSINESS, don’t fall prey/victim Sri Lanka Decriminalizing LGBTQ & impact on Schools & Children in UK Will France have to change French language to satisfy LGBTQ gender” issue? Sri Lanka before passing GAY BILL – wake up […]
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Thursday, April 18th, 2024
Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo Colombo, April 17 (Reuters) – Sri Lanka on Tuesday rejected international bondholders’ proposal to restructure more than $12 billion in debt, putting at risk critical International Monetary Fund support and delaying its efforts to resolve a two-year-long debt crisis. Some of the proposal’s baseline” assessments and a lack of a contingency option […]
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Thursday, April 18th, 2024
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Thursday, April 18th, 2024
උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා ලීඩර් අමෙරිකානු අධිරාජ්යය බිඳවැටෙන සෑම විටම ඔවුන් විසින් ලෝකයේ යුදමය තත්ත්වයක් නිර්මාණය කරන බවද, ඊශ්රායලය ත්රස්තවාදී රාජ්යක් ලෙස අමෙරිකාව භාවිත කළේ ඛනිජ තෙල් වෙනුවෙන් අරාබි මුහුද, රතු මුහුදේ ගැටලුවක් නිර්මාණය කිරීමට බවද වෛද්ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා පවසයි. ඒ මහතා මේ බව පැවසුවේ දෙරණ වාද පිටිය දේශපාලන සංවාදය හා එක් වෙමිනි. ලංකාව පිහිටා […]
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Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් මෙරට ගැමි සමාජය හසුරුවන ප්රධානතම රැහැන නම් සාමූහිකත්වයයි.පැරණි ගැමියන් කිසි විටක සාමූහිකත්වයෙන් තොරව සංවිධාන ගත නොවූහ.ඔවුන්ගේ ප්රධානතම ආර්ථික ක්රියාවලිය වූ කුඹූරු ගොවිතැන සහ හේන් ගොවිතැන සාර්ථකත්වයට පත් කරනු ලැබූවේ එකට වැඩ කරගැනීමට තිබූ දක්ෂතාවයෙනි.මුල් කැටෑ හේන නම් වියළ් ගොවිතැනේ දී සියලුම දෙන එකතු වී මූකලානක් කොටා පුලුස්සා වටේ දඬුවැට සවි කර තමන්ගේ පංගු […]
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Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
Manusha Media Labour and Foreign Employment Minister Manusha Nanayakkara said today (17) that the demands for systemic change voiced by the public on the streets have been achieved within the Ministry over the past two years, with necessary policy adjustments implemented. The minister made this statement today (17) when he participated in the special event […]
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Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
Courtesy Adaderana The owner of a street food eatery in Aluthkade, who was arrested for price-gouging a foreign tourist and behaving in a verbally aggressive manner, has been granted bail. When the accused was produced before the court earlier today (17), he was ordered to be released on a cash bail of Rs. 50,000 and […]
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Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
e-Con e-News ee wishes readers a Happy New Year! Last week, ee reproduced an Island report recalling how an attempted military coup, to overcome the so-called 2018 ‘constitutional coup’, was thwarted. Observers of such machinations of state & statecraft wonder if the latest tale about former President Maithripala Sirisena allegedly disclosing an ‘Indian Hand’ as being behind the April 2019 bombings, may indeed be […]
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Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
Garvin Karunaratne, PhD. Michigan Stae University, Is it not sad that Sri Lanka, a country that had no foreign debt in 1977, is today having a foreign debt of $ 91 billion( Prof. Charitha Herath:Lankadeepa- 7/2/24) When President Gotabhaya left the debt was $ 56 billion. Sri Lanka is a country of ample resources, a […]
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Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
දේශමාන්ය ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර. අග්රාමාත්ය සිරිමාවෝ බන්ඩාරනායක මැතිනියගේ හිටපු ලේකම් සහ ශ්රී ලන්කා පරිපාලන සේවා සන්ගමයේ සභාපති (1991-1994) සුභ අලුත් අවුරුද්දක් වේවා! ශ්රී ලන්කා ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදී සමාජවාදි ජනරජයේ 2024 ක්වූ අප්රේල් 14. ගරු ජනාධිපති, රනිල් වික්රමසින්හ මැතිතුමා වෙතය. ගරු ජනාධිපති තුමනි, 1815 ආරම්භවූ බ්රිතාන්ය යටත් විජිත පාලනයෙන් මිදී, මේ රට ව්යවස්ථාදායක,විධායක සහ අධිකරණ බලය සහිත පූර්ණ […]
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Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
ගෝලිය ඒකාබද්ධ ජාතික සංවිධාන ශ්රී ලකාවේ යෝජිත අධ්යාපන ප්රතිපත්තිය තුළ මවු භාෂාභාවිතයේ වැදගත්කම පිළිබඳව සැලකිිමත් වී නැති බැවින් අපගේඅනාගත පරපුරේ දැනුම් උකහාගැනීමේ හැකියාව සහආත්මාභිමානය ප්රවර්ධනය පිළිබඳව සිදුවිය හැකි අඩාල වීම සහ,එ් ඔස්සේ සිංහල භාෂාව මළ භාෂාවක් බවට තල්ලු වී යාමේඇති දැඩි අවදානම ශ්රී ලංකා ආණ්ඩුව විසින් සැප්තැම්බර් 23 දාතමින් ඉදිරිපත් කරනුලැබ ඇති ජාතික අධ්යාපන ප්රතිපත්ති […]
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Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
Sugath Kulatunga A strident cry we hear now from goverment politicians and economic pundits is that State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) must be privatized to make them efficient and profitable and ease the burden of losses to the state. Majority of them think that a wave of the majic wand of privatization will turn the white elephants to cash cows. Historically in Sri Lanka, SOEs have made a significant contribution to industrial development, […]
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Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
By David Hearst Zionism wants large war to cover the Genocide, and the West needs World War 3 to stall the BRICS and Rise of the Global South in the Asian 21st Century Staunch allies calling themselves friends of Israel are beginning to realise they are also friends of the murderers of western aid workers, […]
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Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col), PGDC(Col) සමායෝජක – වෛද්ය තිලක පද්මා සුබසිංහ අනුස්මරණ නීති අධ්යාපන වැඩසටහන. අධිකරණ, විනිශ්චය අධිකාර සහ ආයතන ඉදිරියේ කරුණු දක්වන තැනැත්තන්ගේ අයිතිවාසිකම් ආරක්ෂා කිරීමේ පනත් කෙටුම්පත 1.මෙම පනත 2024 අංක …. දරන අධිකරණ, විනිශ්චය අධිකාර සහ ආයතන ඉදිරියේ කරුණු දක්වන තැනැත්තන්ගේ අයිතිවාසිකම් ආරක්ෂා කිරීමේ පනත යනුවෙන් හදුන්වනු ලැබේ. 2.අධිකරණ, විනිශ්චය අධිකාර […]
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Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
YANIS VAROUFAKIS Watch/read the speech that I could not deliver because German police burst into our Berlin venue to disband our Palestine Congress (1930s style) before I could address the meeting. Today, because I dared publish this speech here, the Ministry of Interior issued a Betätigungsverbot” against me, a ban on any political activity. Not […]
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Monday, April 15th, 2024
BY JENNIFER ANANDANAYAGAM Courtesy Health Digest The seasons of fall and winter are usually associated with the flavor of cinnamon. Whether it’s homemade cinnamon rolls or cinnamon crumble apple pie, the spicy, sweet, and comforting aroma of this popular spice is something we’ve come to love. Historically, cinnamon was considered sacred, with Romans burning the spice […]
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Sunday, April 14th, 2024
දේශමාන්ය ආචාර්ය සුදත් ගුණසේකර. අග්රාමාත්ය සිරිමාවෝ බන්ඩාරනායක මැතිනියගේ හිටපු ලේකම්; ශ්රී ලන්කා පරිපාලන සේවා සන්ගමයේ සභාපති (1991-94) 2024. 4.14. මහනුවර රටට,ජාතියට මෙන්ම මේ රටේ නියෝජිත ප්රජාතන්ත්රවාදයට හූනියමක් හා ශාපයක් වී ඇති, 35 වසරක් රට විනාශකළ1978 ව්යවස්ථාව සහ විධායක ජනාධිපති ධුරය වහාම අහෝසිකොට 1972 ජනරජ ව්යවස්ථාව යළි බලගන්වා මේ රටත්, ජාතියත්, සාශනයත් වැටී ඇති අඝාධයෙන් ගොඩගැනීමට […]
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Sunday, April 14th, 2024
Garvin Karunaratne My We alleviate poverty that afflicts over half of us Mind you By the Sixties we had alleviated poverty We did control our economy then, made things. We imported only what we could not make In 1977 we embraced the IMF’s Structural Adjustment Sent all development workers to the barracks yet we pay […]
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Sunday, April 14th, 2024
Sugath Kulatunga It is gratifying to note our President and a leading politician Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) making emphatic and unequivocal statements on two vital policy issues. Present stated repeatedly that the country has to convert itself into an export economy to be a developed nation by 1948. He was in the JR government when […]
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Sunday, April 14th, 2024
Palitha Mapatuna It is noted that a person, who describes himself as Kleppe Ariyamagga, has taken upon himself the task of ‘rectifying’ some alleged errors which, according to him (and some others like him) are found in the long accepted history of Sri Lanka, especially in its Buddhist history. Now, the fundamental question is whether […]
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Sunday, April 14th, 2024
Geopolitical Economy Report
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Sunday, April 14th, 2024
SCOTT RITTER Iran’s retaliatory attack on Israel will go down in history as one of the greatest victories of this century. I’ve been writing about Iran for more than two decades. In 2005, I made a trip to Iran to ascertain the ground truth” about that nation, a truth which I then incorporated into a […]
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