By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island August 18, 2016, 12:00 pm The Value Added Tax (Amendment) Bill in the form presented has come and gone. It is likely to reappear in another avatar. The reason for the Supreme Court to determine that the Bill was null and void was the vigilance of civil society whose interests […]

වෛද්‍ය කේ.එම්. වසන්ත බණ්‌ඩාර උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින පාර්ලිමේන්තුව තුළ මන්ත්‍රීවරුන්ගේ ප්‍රශ්න වලට සාධාරණ උත්තරයක්‌ ලබානොදෙන ”යහපාලන රෙජීමය” පාර්ලිමේන්තුවෙන් පරිභාහිරව ව්‍යවස්‌ථා සම්පාදක සභාවක්‌ නිර්මාණය කොට මන්ත්‍රීවරු සියලු දෙනාගේ සහභාගීත්වයෙන් ව්‍යවස්‌ථාවක්‌ හැදීමට තරම් ‘ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී’ වන්නේ කුමක්‌ නිසාද? විපක්‍ෂයේ විවිධ කණ්‌ඩායම් එම ප්‍රශ්නයට තර්කානුකූල උත්තරයක්‌ සොයාගත් බවක්‌ මහජනයාට පෙනෙන්නේ නැත. කෙසේ වෙතත් මෙම නව ක්‍රමවේදය තේරීමට ආණ්‌ඩුවට බලකරන්නේ නිල […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Joint Opposition MP Shehan Semasinghe is concerned with the Electoral System Committee’s proceedings, in which he is a member. “The government,” he states, “is still not clear whether executive powers should continue with the President or transfer to the Prime Minister, and President to be ceremonial. But without deciding how […]

PM eyeing to bring the federal solution – Lokuge අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයා ව්‍යවස්ථාව සංශෝධනය කරන්න යන්නේ ෆෙඩරල් පොරොන්දු ඉටු කිරීමටයි… – ගාමිණී ලොකුගේ.

M.L.WICKRAMASINGHE The Public Representations Committee on Constitutional Reform in Sri Lanka has published its report. The Northern Provincial Council (NPC) adopted a resolution on constitutional changes. Although presented unconstitutionally NPC proposal  should be studied. It is the responsibility of all Sri Lankan citizens belonging to all ethnic groups and political ideologies to begin discussions on […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera We all know that Sri Lanka has miserably failed in coordination of development work in the country . .J R installed provincial councils to satisfy India and also to show the world that he is quite genuine in decentralization of power .In the North Vartharajh Perumal thought that he is above the […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island June 16, 2016, 9:28 pm The Public Representations Committee on Constitutional Reform headed by its Chairman Lal Wijenayake has recommended retaining the Province as the unit of Devolution. The Commission proposes 6 “alternate formulations” based on the Province as the peripheral unit. These formulations vary from retaining the existing 9 […]

Ranjith Soysa We wish to bring to the notice of the Sri Lanka’s professional and the general public about the sinister but a calculated movement launched by vested interests to change the composition of the Sri Lankan population to achieve their traitorous objectives. The method they adopt to implement their pre-planned nefarious activity is comprised […]

යුතුකම සංවාද කවය නිදහසින් පසුව පත් වූ සියළුම ආණ්ඩු විසින් දෙමළ ජනතාව සැලසුම් සහගතව ජාතිඝාතනය කළ බවට සහ මෙරට ෆෙඩරල් රාජ්‍යයක් විය යුතු බවට යෝජනා සම්මත කර ගනිමින් දෙමළ ජනතාව තුළ සිංහලයන් කෙරෙහි වෛරය වැඩෙන ආකාරයට උතුරු පළාත් සභාව ජාතිවාදී බෙදුම්වාදය පෝෂණය කිරීමේ න්‍යාය පත්‍රයකට කටයුතු කරමින් සිටින්නේය. මේ ජාතිවාදී ප්‍රවණාතාවයන්ට පිළිතුරු දෙනු වෙනුවට රටේ […]

Drafted by Lt. Col. (retd) Jayantha de Silva MAHAJANA VIYAWASTAWA II (The People’s Constitution) Preamble WE, the PEOPLE OF SRI LANKA, convinced that the Constitution of 1978, as amended from time to time, has departed from the high ideals of Nationhood and of TRUE DEMOCRACY, resulting in eroding the people’s aspirations for the country, decree that the […]

L.K.N.PERERA  ( LL,B  Cey ) Advocate,  Labour  Consultant, Ex Judicial  Officer. Ex President- Lanka  Academic  Association. Vice  President- Seruwila   Chaityawardena  Samithiya New  Constitution  and  the myth of  Eelam.                   Opposition  leader  Mr Sambandan’s  recent   justification  of  LTTE’s   struggle  to  form   an  Elam  State  and  the    unanimously passed  resolution  in the  Northern Provincial   Council  to  form   an autonomous  state […]

DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA This essay is the culmination of a series of essays I’ve been writing since 2012 the purpose of which has been to identify the main problems with the present Sri Lanka constitution and to formulate remedies that would be useful in a future Constitution. Parliament has now begun the process of generating a […]

by Senaka Weeraratna The moral stature of Sri Lanka’s Constitution would be greatly enhanced if it recognizes the claims of other living beings for compassion and appropriate consideration from human beings, and the protection of their legal rights. The philosophy underlying the Constitution must encompass the view that legal rights are not the exclusive preserve of human […]

Courtesy The Island A group, comprising senior staff members of the Rajarata University Faculty of Medicine, has handed over a 14 proposals to the Committee on Constitutional Reforms at Anuradhpura district secretariat. Under the proposal number 13 they have requested a two-thirds majority of Parliament and a two-thirds majority at a referendum for governments to […]

by Dr Nihal Jayawickrama Courtesy The Island February 20, 2016, 7:23 pm The Prime Minister stated on the floor of Parliament that the Constitutional Council had not yet been able to determine the “procedures” for the performance of its duties and functions as required by Article 41E (6) of the Constitution. He attributed the delay […]

A Concerned Sri Lankan Citizen Hon. Maithripala Sirisena, President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Presidential Secretariat, Galle Face, Colombo 1, Sri Lanka Dear Sir, Unless Sri Lanka Replies with a Definite No to Hybrid Courts and Even a Domestic Court, the US, UK, EU, Canada, Norway, Sweden and India will Totally Ensure […]

Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement, London, United Kingdom Hon. Maithripala Sirisena, President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Presidential Secretariat, Galle Face, Colombo 1, Sri Lanka Dear Sir, Concerns Regarding the Proposed Changes to the Constitution i.e. No to Any More Powers to Provincial Councils, No to Any War Crimes Tribunals, No to Reduction of […]

DecentLanka2015 Here are the proposals we made to the Public Representation Committee on Constitutional Reforms, on 27 January 2016 at Vusumpaya. They don’t in anyway cover all areas for a complete Constitution. Yet they do include concepts for Constitutional making. Our main argument is that this new Constitution should provide for a political solution for the […]

Sri Lanka wants to make a new Constitution in a radically different way. It is poised to become the first developing country in the world to ‘crowd-source’ ideas for making the highest law of the land. http://yourconstitution.lk. That is all well and good – as long as the due process is followed, and that process […]

Shithijaya Sirasa TV 20th January 2016 

by Senaka Weeraratna “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” Mahatma Gandhi We have often heard of tyranny of one group over another e.g. Whites over Blacks, Nazis over Jews, Feudalists over peasants etc. But only a few among us would be prepared to […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි වර්තමාන රජය නව ආණ්ඩුක්රම  ව්යාවස්ථාවක් නිර්මාණය කිරීම සදහා පියවර ගෙන ඇත. ඒ සදහා සාමාන්ය ජනතාවගේ යෝජනාද ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලෙස විවෘත ආරාධනාවක් සිදුකර ඇති පසුබිමක, මෙරට ජනතාව සිදිකල යුත්තේ කුමක්ද? යන පැනය සමාජය ඉදිරියේ මතුව ඇත. මෙරට ජනතාව හා  ආණ්ඩු ක්රම ව්යාවස්ථාව යනු අහසට පොලොව තරම් දුරින් පිහිටා ඇති එකිනෙකා නොහදුනන උපාඞග දෙකකි. […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island January 19, 2016, 7:55 am  Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has spelt out how he thinks the government should set about the task of framing a new Constitution. His statement issued on Sunday coincided with a declaration by Prime Minster Ranil Wickremesinghe that the government would not allow the country to be […]

The first session of the Committee of Public Representations on the Constitution (CPRC) will be held in Colombo from January 18 to 22 from 8.30 a.m. to 4.30 p.m at Visumpaya, staple street, Colombo 02. The public are invited to present their proposals and opinions for the new constitution at this session which is open […]