A.A.M.Nizam – MATARA Programmes on newspaper Headlines, Articles and Editorials televised daily in the mornings have become extremely popular among the people of this country and in almost all the houses these programmes have become a morning breakfast treat. This programme started by Bandula Padmakumara, the former Chief Executive of the Daily News through Swarnawahini […]

RANJITH SOYSA The Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe of Batalanda fame launched a bitter campaign in the Parliament against the journalists claiming that their hands are not clean. The main thrust of his speech was that the journalists are not doing anything about ‘racism’ and Eknaligoda. He mentioned the names of the leading Sinhala news papers […]

Kanthar Balanathan DipEE(UK), GradCert(RelEng-Monash),DipBus&Adm(Finance-Massey), C.Eng., MIEE, MIE(Aus) CPEng, (Retired) Former Director of Power Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd, Consulting Electrical Engineers Professor Ricardo Hausmann Director of the Centre for International Development at Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government Mailbox 34 79 JFK Street Cambridge, MA 02138 Dear Professor Ricardo Hausmann, Introduction I am a […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Spokeperson United Sri Lanka Association Wellington, New Zealand Dear Editor, This editorial reflects a poor and only a superficial understanding of issues pertaining to Sri Lanka.The worst give away of this is the assumption that 40,000 were killed in the last weeks of the war. These are mere allegations initiated within […]

By A.A.M.Nizam – MATARA. Sri Lanka is a peculiar country, unique in the world, with a puppet President who often contradicts his own uttering, a western slavish Prime Minister who stands with the western countries affirming that the west is always right, a Cabinet of Ministers who cannot take independent decisions other than bowing down […]

තේජා ගොඩකන්දෙආරච්චි  ලීඩ්ස් – එක්සත් රාජධාණිය අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී මාධ්‍ය ආයතන වලට ප්‍රසිද්ධියේ තර්ජනය කලේය. ඒ නිකම්ම නොවේ සමහර මාධ්‍යවේදීන්ගේ නම්ද සඳහන් කරමිනි. ඒ ඔවුන් ජාතිවාදීන් කියමිනි. ඔවුන් ජාතිවාදීන්වූයේ පුවත් පල කිරීමෙනි. එහෙත් ඔහුට අමතකවූ දෙයක් ඇත. ඉතා කටුක පාරිසරික තත්වයන් යටතේ කෘෂිකාර්මික කටයුතු වලින් ජීවිතය සරිකර ගත් දැහැමි සාමකාමී දිරිමත් ජනතාවක් විසූ උතුරුකරය ලේ […]

Susantha Wijesinghe The Level Crossing Gate Keeper had closed his gates and was expecting an Express train to come from a certain Direction, when he noticed that there was another train coming from the Opposite Direction, on the same tracks. He immediately took a decision to hail or gesture to the Engine Driver, not to proceed […]

By He Zhenhua (People’s Daily Online) Billionaire investor George Soros said at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos that China’s economy is heading for a hard landing, a slump that will exacerbate the global deflationary pressures. His talking down to the China’s market has led to widespread concerns and heated discussions. In fact, what […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The sand placed in the swimming pool at Sri Lanka Labour Party Leader and Businessman A.S.P. Liyanage’s residence in Rajagiriya was removed this morning under the supervision of Colombo Crime Division (CCD) Chief Vijith Gunaratne and the Rajagiriya Police. Mr. Liyanage had on an earlier occasion complained to the police about […]

Island Editorial January 29, 2016, 7:26 pm Politicians, intoxicated with power, vent their spleens on their critics the way tipplers heap abuse on the rocks they stumble over. The Rajapaksa government had many such elements, Mervyn Silva being one of them. They branded those who refused to toe their line ‘traitors’. The critics of the […]

By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island January 28, 2016, 10:44 pm Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe yesterday, in Parliament, lashed out at the media, accusing them of promoting racism. “You don’t talk big because your hands are not clean. What are all doing with regard to racism? I mean all newspapers. I am asking the electronic and print […]