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Thursday, June 30th, 2016
Courtesy Colombo Telegraph The net appears to be closing in on the outgoing Governor of Central Bank Arjuna Mahendran, with the Auditor General implicating Mahendran in the first bond issuance which has resulted in the country losing a staggering Rs. 1.6 billion rupees, the Colombo Telegraph learns. Arjuna Mahendran The highly anticipated Auditor General’s report […]
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Thursday, June 30th, 2016
ACF Media Unit The two Central Bank (CB) treasury bond scandals and the crisis that has occurred in appointing a new governor to CB have exposed the attempts to protect the corrupt by some elements of the ‘good governance’ government. The report of the Auditors General has stated that the activities of current CB administration […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
(හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාපක්ෂ මහතා 2016 ජුනි 29 වෙනි බදාදා, ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂයේ බත්තරමුල්ල කාර්යාලයේ දීයහපාලන ආණ්ඩුවේ බදු සහ ණය අර්බුදය” ගැන කල දේශනයේ පිටපත.) යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුවේ බදු සහ ණය අර්බුදය අතිපූජනීය සංඝරත්නයෙන් අවසරයි, අන්ය ආගමික පූජකතුමනි, මන්ත්රීවරුනි, මිත්රවරුනි. අපිට අද පේනවා වැට් බද්දට රට පුරාම විශාල විරෝධයක් ඇතිවෙලා තියෙනවා කියන කාරණය. විශේෂයෙන්ම නගර ආශ්රිත වෙළඳ […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
Adaderana We have never faced a crisis as acute as the one created by the reckless borrowing of the Yahapalana Government. The people of this country should be aware of the situation that is developing,” former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says. In a statement, he said Now the government is looking for […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
Daily Mirror The Government not only needs to remove the Central Bank Governor Arujuna Mahendran from his post but also should claim damages from him and the company owned by his son-in-law, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) said today. JVP Leader and Chief Opposition Whip Anura Kumara Dissanayake told a media briefing that the government […]
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
මහින්දට හොද ආත්ම ශක්තියක් තියෙනවා පසුගිය රජය ලබාගත් ණය පිළිබඳ දැන්වීම් ප්රචාරය කිරීම සඳහා රජය වැය කරන අති විශාල මුදල ඉතිරි කර ගැනීමෙන් ජනතාවට යම් සහනයක් ලබාදිය හැකි බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසයි.
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Sunday, June 26th, 2016
කතුවැකිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින දේශීය ආදායම් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ වෙබ් අඩවිය මගින් ප්රකාශයට පත් කර තිබෙන ආකාරයට 2014/2015 සඳහා වන පුද්ගල ආදායම් බද්ද මෙසේය. කෙනෙකු උපයන පළමුවන රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 5 ට අවුරුද්දට 4% ක බද්දකි. දෙවැනි රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 5 ට අවුරුද්දට 8% ක බද්දකි. තුන් වැනි රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 5 ට 12% ක් ද, සිව්වැනි රුපියල් දශලක්ෂයට 16% […]
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Sunday, June 26th, 2016
සණස විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ පීඨාධිපති මහාචාර්ය සුමනසිරි ලියනගේ -උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින සාකච්ඡා කළේ – පාලිත සේනානායක විදේශ විනිමය පිළිබඳ ඇති සියලු සීමා ඉවත් කරන බව අග්රාමාත්ය රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතා පසුගියදා ප්රකාශ කළා. එම පියවරත් පසුගියදා වැට් බදු වැඩිකිරීමට ගත් පියවරත් ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය අරමුදලේ නිර්දේශ මත ගත් ක්රියාමාර්ග බව සණස විශ්වවිද්යාලයේ පීඨාධිපති මහාචාර්ය සුමනසිරි ලියනගේ මහතා දරන අදහසකි. […]
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Sunday, June 26th, 2016
lanka C news ඊයේ දිනයේ මුදල් ඇමතිවරයා විසින් කරන ලද කැඳවීමට අනුව එහි ගොස් සාකච්චා කර පිටව යන අතර මාධ්යවේදීන් අමතමින් ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේය. මේ අතර මාධ්ය හමුවක් කැඳවමින් විගණකාධිපති ඒකාබද්ද වෘත්තීය සමිති එකමුතුව කියා සිටියේ මුදල් ඇමති රවි කරුණානායකට විගණකාධිපතිවරයා කැඳවීමට බලයක් හෝ අයිතියක් නැති බවයි. රජය විසින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව අනුමත කරන ලද […]
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Friday, June 24th, 2016
Gamini Seneviratne This note takes a brief look at Ranil Wickremesinghe’s notions of economic growth and how to get there. I doubt he much understands how such growth” is obtained or measured and, most certainly, no idea at all that typically it would have further negative impacts on the capacity of the people to merely […]
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016
By Tissa Vitarana Courtesy The Island June 21, 2016, 7:45 pm The UNP/SLFP Alliance government came together, ostensibly as a “National Unity” government, thereby escaping the restrictions placed on the number of Ministers by the 19th Amendment. It had as its main objectives (a) the establishment of good governance and (b) the changing of the Constitution […]
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016
Dr Kamal Wickremasinghe Courtesy The Island The title of this commentary is derived from the 16th century proverb “Every man for himself and the devil take the hindmost”. There are at least two versions of the real meaning of the relatively obscure expression, the “hindmost” contained in the proverb: as per its usage in PHILASTER or […]
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Sunday, June 19th, 2016
Sign this petition Dr. Lalithasiri Gunaruwan GMOA https://www.change.org/p/his-excellency-the-president-maithripala-sirisena-democratic-socialist-republic-of-sri-lanka-develop-a-national-policy-for-international-trade-agreements-prior-to-signing-any-international-trade-agreement/u/16970546
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Sunday, June 19th, 2016
by Rajan Philips Courtesy The Island June 18, 2016, 8:08 pm The name in the title notwithstanding, this article is not so much about an individual as it is about the politics and propriety of public institutions and the promise of good governance. The controversy over re-appointing the current governor of the Central Bank to a […]
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Sunday, June 19th, 2016
By The Nation It is perfectly normal for ordinary people to defend their friends irrespective of whether they are right or wrong. But can the leaders of a country afford to do so? This is the question that often comes to one’s mind whenever top ministers of the government show that they are ready to […]
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Friday, June 17th, 2016
Rajith Keerthi Tennakoo Executive Director/CaFFE Executive Director/CHR-Sri Lanka Rajagiriya,Sri Lanka. Anti-corruption Front (ACF) commenced “its Say No to Arjuna Mahendran” considering the chaos he was creating in the Central Bank of Sri Lanka and the overall financial sector by his blatant misuse of power and treasury deal scams. His actions have undermined the entire banking sector and thus […]
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Friday, June 17th, 2016
දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ යෝජිත විගණන පනත් කෙටුම්පත සංශෝධන රහිතව සම්මත කර ගැනීම සදහා කටයුතු කරන ලෙස ‘දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණ‘ ඉතා ඕනෑකමින් ඉල්ලා සිටී. අද වන විට විගණන කේෂ්ත්රය විධිමත් කිරීමේ අවශ්යතාව ඉතිහාසයේ අන් කවරදාකටත් වැඩියෙන් මතුව ඇත. ජාතික විගණන පනත දිගු කාලයක් සිවිල් සමාජය විසින් මතු කළ, ශක්තිමත් කළ, බලාපොරොත්තුවකි. එහි වගන්ති මගින් විගණන ක්රියාවලිය […]
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Thursday, June 16th, 2016
Courtesy Lanka-e-News (Lanka-e-News -13.June.2016, 10.15PM) Believe it or not ! this is not a record taken out from the book of Ripleys . Rather ,this is a record breaking feat , inglorious though of Sri Lanka ‘s Governor of Central Bank ‘Bond Mahendran’ alias Arjun Mahendran who travelled abroad as many as 22 times at public […]
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Thursday, June 16th, 2016
By Dr. Janaka Ratnasiri Courtesy The Island June 16, 2016, 12:00 pm During the recent no-confidence debate on the Finance Minister, the Prime Minister (PM) was reported to have said in the Parliament that country’s exchange controls would be removed before the next budget in November (Sunday Island, 12.06.2016). He added that “Sri Lanka’s foreign reserves […]
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Saturday, June 11th, 2016
GLOBAL SRI LANKAN FORUM Global Sri Lankan Forum, GSLF has commenced an On-line Petition” requesting Sri Lankan Government not to re-appoint the current Central Bank Governor, Mr. Arjun Mahendran due to his various malpractices and his alleged links with the LTTE Tamil terrorists in Sri Lanka and Globally. To read the Petition and sign it, open the […]
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Friday, June 10th, 2016
Editorial Courtesy The Island June 10, 2016, 9:11 pm The government is cock-a-hoop about defeating Thursday’s no-faith motion against Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake. It mustered 145 votes against the motion while the proponents thereof had to settle for only 51. Twenty eight MPs were absent including former President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The government’s jubilation is understandable. It […]
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Friday, June 10th, 2016
Ruwan Laknath Jayakody Courtesy The Nation The Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) has charged that the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL) and its Governor, Arjuna Mahendran were refusing to provide information pertaining to all Treasury Bond issues from 2015, concerning which a special investigation is being conducted. Chairman of the COPE, Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna […]
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Friday, June 10th, 2016
Editorial By The Nation Supplementary estimates presented in parliament to buy expensive duty free vehicles for ministers and state ministers amidst hardships caused to people by floods and the explosion in the Army’s central armoury sparked a lot of public antipathy and generated much public discussion on the subject. Despite public criticism most parliamentarians, irrespective […]
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2016
Nihal Perera Toronto, Canada After reading the following article that appeared at Colombo Page, I was, (as many other fair-minded Sri Lankans would be..) furious the way how our politicians are milking the country and its tax payers money – or in this case perhaps burrowed money from IMF – to serve themselves, with some luxury vehicles worth […]
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2016
උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ජාත්යන්තර මූල්ය අරමුදල වෙතින් වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව ඉල්ලා සිටි ඩොලර් බිලියන 1.5 ක ණය මුදලේ පළමුවැනි කොටස පසුගිය සෙනසුරාදා නිකුත් කරන ලදැයි ප්රංශ පුවත් සේවය මගින් (AFP) නිකුත් කරන ලද වාර්තාවක සඳහන්ව තිබිණි. යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුව විසින් මෙම ණය මුදල අයදුම් කරනු ලැබ තිබුණේ ආර්ථිකය වර්ධනය කර ගැනීමටත් ගෙවුම් ශේaෂ හිඟය පියවා ගැනීමටත්ය. ජුනි […]
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Monday, June 6th, 2016
පුවත්පත් නිවේදනය දූෂණ විරෝධි පෙරමුණ මහ බැංකු අධිපති බලය අයථා පරිහරණය මෙහෙමයි බැංකු අධීක්ෂණ දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව ඉවත් කළ ලංකා පුත්ර සංවර්ධන බැංකුවේ සභාපති රකින්නේ මහ බැංකු අධිපති! – දුෂණ විරෝධී පෙරමුණේ උපදේශක පුවත්පත් සාකච්ඡාවේ දී කියයි. බැදුම්කර නිකුතු දෙකක් හරහා ‘සබැදියාවන් අතර ගැටුම්‘ ඇතිකොට ගත් මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයා මේ වන විට තම බලය අයථා පරිහරණයට ලක් කරමින් […]
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Monday, June 6th, 2016
Island Editorial June 5, 2016,Courtesy The Island The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has, at long last, released the first tranche of a USD 1.5 bn bailout package for Sri Lanka. The government is over the moon. Sadly, the Granary of the East has come to such a pass that its rulers pride themselves on obtaining […]
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Saturday, June 4th, 2016
By Ravi Ratnasabapathy Courtesy CAPX June 03 (CAPX) Last week, the Sun newspaper in the UK claimed that a factory in Sri Lanka that produces a line of clothing for a popular singer Beyonce is using sweatshop ‘slaves’. The report attracted little interest in Sri Lanka, partly because attention was more focused on the devastating floods […]
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Thursday, June 2nd, 2016
මහ බැංකුවේ ධනය තම සුඛවිහරණය මහ බැංකුවේ ධනය තම සුඛවිහරණය සඳහා යොදා ගත් එමෙන්ම මහ බැංකු බැදුම්කර ක්රියාදාමය තම බෑණාගේ සමාගමට මුදල් ඉපයීම සඳහා වූ උල්පතක් බවට පත්කර දුන්, 2016 ජූනි 30 වැනිදායින් ධුර කාලය අවසන් වන මහ බැංකු අධිපතිවරයා යළි පත් කරන්නේදැයි ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන […]
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2016
Prof G.L.Pieris During the past few weeks, a highly-expensive and politically-driven media campaign had been conducted by the Ministry of National Policy and Economic Affairs, using public funds, to convey the impression that the debt trap”that the country has now fallen into, has been due to the mismanagement of the previous regime. Through that campaign, they […]
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