Dilrook Kannangara All families of TNA MPs live in Colombo! Their demand for Tamil Eelam is a sham to distract people and terrorise them into extorting more economic benefits and privileges in Colombo and surrounds so that a Colombo-centric Tamil Eelam will become more feasible. Quest for Tamil Eelam was genuine until open war began […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Hambantota port is located on the Southern tip of Sri Lanka. It is ideally located at the intersection of the major international shipping routes.  It is within 10 nautical miles from the world’s busiest maritime lanes.  Approximately 200 to 300 ships sail along this route daily. Experts agree that Hambantota port has the   […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Yahapalana government had its own idiosyncratic approach to Hambantota. Instead of continuing with the project, as it should have done, since Phase 3 was in place, Yahapalana suspended the Hambantota project in January 2015.  Yahapalana announced that the performance of Hambantota port had not been satisfactory. Port operations started in November 2010 and […]

Mahinda Gunasekera His Excellency, Maithripala Sirisena,President of Sri Lanka Copy to: Hon. Ranil Wickremasinghe, Prime Minister ”     ”   Hon. Wijayadasa Rajapaksa, Minister of Justice ”     ”    Hon. Gayantha Karunahilaka, Minister of Information ”      ”   Inspector General of Police, Sri Lanka Your Excellency, Fervent Appeal Made by Sandya Kumari, […]

 by C.A.Chandraprema Mark Fernando’s 1998 judgement to take centre stage New constitution or 20A needed to postpone impending PC elections March 4, 2017, 7:10 pm Not holding the local government elections has become a major part of the survival strategy of this government. While the local government elections have been put off due to complications […]

Editorial Island March 4, 2017, 7:08 pm The advantages of a policy of non-confrontational foreign relations favored by the incumbent rulers against the bang-bang- bang approach of its predecessors was evident at the ongoing UN Human Rights Commission proceedings in Geneva where Sri Lanka did not face canon fire. Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera and his […]

DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Mr. R. Sampanthan’s 90 minute (written) speech during the recent adjournment debate (Feb 22) on the Constitution was ‘historicist’, in the sense that he invoked a great deal of political history. But his argument was a-historical and illogical. The Tamil nationalists, including Mr. Sampanthan himself spurned the many offers made by successive […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando The late President Ranasinghe Premadasa signed the visitor’s book at Jinadasa Vijayatunge’s residence, Chapel Road, Nugegoda, when he visited his residence to pay his last respects to the renowned author and journalist, who died in 1989, with this single sentence observation: “This great author who brought world honour to Sri […]

Sirisena-Wickremesinghe govt is indebted to Tamil diaspora – GL

ෆොන්සේකාට දඬුවම්දීම ගැන මට කිසිම කනස්සල්ලක් නෑ… හිටපු ජනපති පවසයි