Chaminda Perera  Courtesy The Daily News Al Jazeera: UNP MP and nominal ex Govt. MP egged on Tiger ‘war crimes’ advocate Some elements that stated in the past that talking about ending terrorism is a rotten subject, now take pride in claiming over Al Jazeera Television that the war heroes who ended terrorism in Sri […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada 28 November 2014 Rathika Sitsabaiesan, NDPs Rookie MP for Scarborugh-Rouge River, Ontario House of Commons, Ottawa Hon. Steven Blaney, Minister for Public Safety; Hon. Tom Mulcair, MP, Leader of the NDP and the Oppositio;  Hn. Julian Fantino, Minister of Veteran Affairs. Dear Rathika: […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge  Jātaka stories describe various personality types and it could be regarded as an ancient book of personality psychology. Different types of personalities and personality traits can be found in these stories. Personality has to do with individual differences among people in behavior patterns, cognition and emotion. It is a set of enduring behavioural and […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe’s (RW) decision  to recruit Mr Maithipala Sirisena as the Common Candidate has angered a vast majority of UNP die-hard supporters, particularly the loyalists of Mr Sajith Premadasa (SP).   According to well  informed  sources, the UNP supporters  in the SP camp are at logger-heads with RW for the […]

Shenali D Waduge It is strange that British lawmakers have seen fit to urge EU to declare sanctions against Sri Lanka and remove preferential trade tariffs for ALLEGED crimes which 5 years on have not gone beyond speculation, finger pointing and hyped media propaganda only.  Sri Lanka has reasons not to cooperate The Sri Lanka […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න ප්‍රභාකරන්  මගේ ප්‍රේම රජින්දා —– මානැ ති  අතරේ මාරු ගියෙ  කැන්දා —                                   ඔබේ දිවි තොර කල සීහ රජින්දා — දන්ගෙඩියට මම ගෙනයමි කැන්දා  ඇ  ය කෙස්කළඹ විසුරුවමින් පරල වී  නටමින්  විලාප තබය් ….ප  ලි ගහය්.  නැවත යන ගී ගයය් ”””’ මා … දශකයකට ආසන්න කාලයක්  මහා කැ  ලයේ අතරමන් වී සිටියෙම් වුවත් […]

By Gomin Dayasri My buddy Joe J is a born UNPUer but knows no politics and cares less for it. Honest Joe stands for the country and for his party but is no card-carrying party member. His deceased parents voted UNP and Joe J carries the family tradition of belonging to the ancestral UNP. He […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty  Courtesy Island The coalition that Mr. Sirisena represents has diverse interests. The formulation of the new Constitution has to be undertaken by this diverse group. Therefore, it would be reasonable to expect the process of formulating a new Constitution to take more time than the 100 day time frame he has pledged […]

By Rohana R. Wasala The Maithripala Sirisena affair reminded me of a silly character in a Sinhalese teledrama I watched some years ago. It was a good-natured simpleton who was being looked after by his  brother. In one episode this man is shown husking coconuts in a well-to-do neighbour’s compound, and he is heard saying to […]

Lankaweb Weekly Editorial November 27th. 2014 Despite all the portrayals of common candidate  Maithripala Sirisena as a prudent choice ( somewhat contentious portrayals heavily biased in favour of the UNP which seem plainly visible to the more discerning), it may not be that prudent nor will it augur well for the country where a ship jumper Like Maitripala […]