e-Con e-News Posted byee ink.June 6, 2026Posted inUncategorizedTags:13th Amendment, chattel-slavery, history, India, politics, travel, US Constitution, USA blog: https://eesrilanka.wordpress.com ‘Before you study the economics, study the economists!’ e-Con e-News 31 May – 06 June 2026 ‘We have in the Tamil coolie a perfect machine for the cultivation of our tea, coffee, or other tropical produce.’ Chief Justice of Sri Lanka, Lovell B Clarence, […]

2026 ජූනි 7 පුවත්පත් නිවේදනය රජිත් කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් 2026 වසරේ පළමු කාර්තුවේ ඉලක්කම් විජ්ජාවක ප්‍රබන්ධය නමුත් සත්‍යය නම් මේ වසරේ පළමු මාස 3 තුල පමණක්, මෙරට විදේශ ණය ඇ.ඩො.මි. 788 කින් ද,  දේශීය ණය රු. බි.  490 කින්  වැඩිවී ඇත. රාජ්‍ය ණය කලමනාකරණ දොපාර්තමේන්තුවේ නිල වාර්තා අනුව, ගෙවන ලද මුලික මුදල (Principal Amount) ඩො.බි. 5.98 කි. […]

Courtesy Hiru News The legal counsel for Former State Intelligence Chief Major General (Rtd) General Sallay has written to CID Director SSP Shani Abeysekara, demanding urgent medical intervention for his client. He emphasised that prolonged detention conditions pose an immediate risk to life, noting that the State has a non-delegable duty of care towards individuals […]

Senaka Weeraratna The International Cricket Council (ICC) faces serious allegations of institutional fraud and deliberate misrepresentation because physical dossiers submitted by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) provided the governing body with actual notice of the Umpire Decision Review System (DRS) origin framework. The long-running intellectual property dispute centers on Sri Lankan lawyer Senaka Weeraratna, who designed […]

Senaka Weeraratna The Sri Lankan lawyer who took on the International Cricket Council (ICC) for the betterment of cricket is Senaka Weeraratna. Known globally as the “Father of DRS” (Decision Review System), Weeraratna has been engaged in a decades-long intellectual property battle with the ICC to claim rightful authorship and recognition for inventing the system. […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera A Policy Shift Towards Steel and Prefabricated Construction for Sri Lanka’s Public Infrastructure Time for a New Approach to Government Construction Procurement Sri Lanka’s public sector construction procurement procedures have traditionally been based on conventional reinforced concrete structures with brick-and-mortar walls. Under existing procurement regulations, government institutions are required to prepare preliminary […]

Rear admiral ( Dr ) Sarath Weerasekera VSV RWP USP Former Public Security Minister This is regarding the editorial of The Island on 19 th May 2026, titled Defeat ofTerrorism- Triumph of hypocrisy”.I fully agree with the Editor when he says that Terrorism need to be eliminated in allits forms and manifestations. Terrorism is generally […]

By Eng. Sarath Obeysekera Former Chairman, Sri Lanka Land Reclamation and Development Corporation (SLLRDC) The recent announcement  ( Sunday Times 7th June) of a major Beira Lake clean-up programme has generated renewed hope that one of Colombo’s most iconic water bodies can finally be restored. Dredging, aerators, landscaping, jogging paths, and beautification projects are all […]

Senaka Weeraratna The International Cricket Council (ICC) has not announced any formal disciplinary or legal actions against the three specific legal and administrative figures—David Becker (former Head of Legal), Jonathan Hall (General Counsel), and David Richardson (former CEO)—implicated by critics in the ongoing dispute over the Umpire Decision Review System (DRS). [1, 2, 3] The […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Blue economy promoter Sri Lanka is once again celebrating agreements to send skilled graduates and engineers overseas. While foreign employment generates valuable remittances, we must ask a fundamental question: Are we exporting our most valuable resource because we have failed to create opportunities at home? Recent discussions on providing employment opportunities in […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Sri Lanka is currently engaged in a vigorous campaign against corruption in the public sector. Investigations, prosecutions, and public debate have rightly focused on the misuse of state resources and abuse of political power. However, an equally important question remains largely unaddressed: what about corruption and governance failures in the corporate sector? […]

Courtesy Hiru News The former Director of the State Intelligence Service, retired Major General Suresh Sallay, who is being detained and questioned by the Criminal Investigation Department under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, was admitted to the Colombo National Hospital, according to sources. This comes against a backdrop where he commenced a fast-to-death since last […]

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Courtesy Hiru News Former intelligence chief Suresh Salle served the country by dedicating his entire life for 38 years, and the time arrived for the people of the country to stand up and show gratitude to him. Suresh Salle, who is under detention orders in the custody of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), commenced a […]

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