Shenali D Waduge When Ranil Wickremasinghe Government took power in 2001 they allowed foreigners to purchase land and even coastal graveyards were bought. Returning to power again the Wickremasinghe Government has decided to continue to again facilitate sale of land to foreigners. What are the repercussions and consequences that the citizens will have to face […]

Dharshan Weerasekera, Attorney-at-Law ‘Statutes are designed to meet the fugitive exigencies of the hour.  A Constitution states or ought to state not rules for the passing hour, but principles for an expanding future.’ – Benjamin Cardozo, The Nature of the Judicial Process Author’s note:  The present paper is part of a proposed 2-Volume work titled, […]

Insight by Sunil Kumar Nov12th 2017 There has been damning evidence coinciding with the Lord Naseby report from the UK published recently to suggest that: The critical analysis of POE which  according to the  UN report shows that the civilians killed as a result of co-lateral damage is approximately 6,356 and not 40,000 as UN […]

නැවත රැවටෙන්න සූදානම් නෑ.. ශ‍්‍රීලනිපය සමග කිසිදු සන්ධානයක් නෑ..- කටකතා සුණු විසුනු කරමින් ප‍්‍රීතිඝෝෂා මැද මහින්ද කියයි.. එක් වරක් රැවටුනු පසු තවත් වරක් රැවටෙන්නට සූදානම් නැති බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා පවසයි. ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ ප‍්‍රධාන ඒකාබද්ද විපක්‍ෂය විසින් අනුරාධපුර සල්ගාදු පිටියේදි සංවිධානය කර තිබූ රටරට මහා ජන රැුළිය අමතමින් ඔහු මේ බව […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara. 12.11. 2017. Mr President the doom is almost at your door step. Either act now as wisely as possible, as the Executive President and go down in history as a true SLFPer and savior of this nation or go down in to oblivion as a man disgraced and discarded by the very […]

Chandre Dharmawardana, Ottawa, Canada What caught my eye regarding the  Mangala” budget were the headiness claiming that it is an eco-green  budget. On reading more about it, one can only say in Colombo English, Aiyoo!  See”, i.e.,  Alas ! Look (at this scam)”. But the Aiyoo-see” can also be written as IOC, the Indian Oil […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි උබලගේ ආණ්ඩුව, ආපු දවසේ ඉදන් කතා කරන්නේ ජාතික සංහිදියාව ගැන. හරියට මේ රටේ ඉන්න 70%ක්වූ සිංහල මිනිස්සු අනිත් එවුන්ට එලව එළවා පහර දෙනවා වගේ, බලපල්ලා උබලගේ ආණ්ඩුව මේ රටේ සිංහල,හා දෙමල මිනිස්සුන්ට එළව එළවා පහර දෙන නිර්ලජ්ජිත ආකාරය. උබලාගේ මහා ලොකු අයවැය, මේ රටේ ජාතිවාදය හා ජනතාව හිතා මතාම බෙදා බින්න කරන […]

වරුණ චන්ද්‍රකීර්ති හඳ ගැනයි ගම ගැනයි කිව්වා ම අපිට මතක්වෙන්නේ හඳගම. එතුමා අපේ චිත්‍රපට අධ්‍යක්‍ෂවරයෙක්නේ. ඒත් හඳේ බර ගැන කියද්දි මේ ලේඛකයාට මතක්වෙන්නේ වෙනත් චිත්‍රපට අධ්‍යක්‍ෂවරයෙකුත් එතුමා නිර්මාණය කරපු චිත්‍රපටයකුත්. ඒ චිත්‍රපට අධ්‍යක්‍ෂතුමා තමයි සත්‍යජිත් රායි. හ‍ඳේ බරට අදාළ ව එතුමා නිර්මාණය කරපු ඒ චිත්‍රපටය තමයි ජන අරණ්‍යය. ඉංග්‍රීසියෙන් ඒ චිත්‍රපටිය නම්කරලා තියෙන්නේ අතරමැදියා කියන […]

I am with the people – Mahinda

In 1069, King Vijayabahu I of Ceylon (then called Sinhale) asked King Anawrahta of Burma for aid against the Chola invaders from Tamil country. Anawrahta sent ships of supplies in aid of Buddhist Ceylon. In 1071, King Vijayabahu who had defeated the Cholas asked King Anawrahta for scriptures and monks. The Chola invasions had left […]

The Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Geneva Secretary General of the United National Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Dr. Mikhisa Kituyi has assured the Minister of Science, Technology and Research Susil Premajayantha that the UNCTAD stands ready to assist with Sri Lanka’s Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Review (STIP) and […]

Mahinda Gunasekera Toronto, Canada The LTTE Rump remaining overseas and their fellow separatist travellers in the proxy political party, i.e. the TNA, functioning as the official opposition in Sri Lanka’s parliament are ever so busy with their ‘Circus of Lies’ to demonize Sri Lanka citing various bogus unsubstantiated reports prepared by biased media personnel and […]

Courtesy The Island November 11, 2017, 8:05 pm The banning of the Lanka e News website indicates a new development in the internal politics of the yahapalana coalition government. Lanka e News is foremost among the website that worked to bring Maithripala Sirisena into power. What distinguished Lanka e News from the other websites that […]

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Views of politicos on the budget (English)

C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy The Island November 11, 2017, 8:04 pm The third yahapalana budget was presented in parliament and there does not seem to be anything positive that can be said about it. It was the AFP Correspondent in this country who pointed out at the press briefing held afterwards by the Minister of Finance that the […]

Lt. Colonel (Retd) Athula Lankadeva RWP, RSP, USP, psc, MSc. Courtesy The Island November 11, 2017, 6:35 pm The Sunday Times of 29 Oct carried an article referring to Lord Naseby on demanding to remove the war crime tag from Sri Lanka. Lord Naseby researched classified documents to find that UN has fudged the casualty figure […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The Government Medical Officers Forum (GMOF) has accused Finance and Media Minister Mangala Samaraweera of deceiving the public in a bid to promote beer sales. GMOF President Dr. Rukshan Bellana yesterday told The Island that they would soon request President Maithripala Sirisena not to allow anyone with vile aims to […]

K.K.S. Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Six weeks before S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike’s SLFP gained power, US President Eisenhower, in a speech stated…, If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it […]

Mahinda begins campaign in Anuradhapura (English)

Dilrook Kannangara Racism has a new abode in Sri Lanka – the budget. Mangala’s 2018 budget is all about taxing Sinhalese to pay Tamils. Budget proposes to ease the burden on war affected people” but it only proposes benefits for Tamils! Sinhalese and Muslims were also affected by the war but they get nothing. Tamils […]