Garvin Karunaratne The GramaShakti Programme initiated by President Sirisena is intended to alleviate poverty that has become a severe threat to the country’s economy, especially to the rural economy. It is a flagship development programme in line with the vision of President Sirisena for a sustainable Sri Lanka, with a robust economy, free of all […]

– අරවින්ද අතුකෝරල පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමයේ නායක නීතිඥ උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා 2017 නොවැම්බර් 20 දින අධිකරණ අමාත්‍යාංශ වැය ශීර්ෂයේ දී කළ කතාව… යුක්තිය පසඳලීම පිළිබඳ වැදගත්ම මූලධර්මයක් තමයි.  යුක්තිය ඉටුවීම පමණක් ප්‍රමාණවත් නෑ.  යුක්තිය ඉටු වුණු බව පේන්න තිබෙන්නත් ඕනි කියන එක.  මේ නිසා අධිකරණ විනිසුරුවරුන්ගේ වගේම නීතිපතිවරයාගේ පත්වීම් වගේම හැසිරීම් යුක්තිය පිළිබඳ මහජන විශ්වාසයට බලපානවා.  […]

 උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම මාමණ්ඩිය මහ බැංකු අධිපතිව සිටියදී බෑනා එම බැංකුවේ ප්‍රාථමික ගැනුම්කරුවකුව සිටීම බරපතළ තත්ත්වයක් බව තමා පිළිගන්නා බවත් ඇලෝසියස්ට එම කටයුතුවලින් ඉවත් වන ලෙස මහේන්ද්‍රන් කියා ඇතත් දිගින් දිගටම කල් ඉල්ලමින් ඔහු දිගටම එම කටයුතුවල යෙදුණු බව මහේන්ද්‍රන් තමාට පැවැසූ බවත් අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ ඊයේ (20දා) මහ බැංකු බැඳුම්කර වංචා විමර්ශන ජනාධිපති කොමිසම හමුවේදී […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA. Parliamentarian Vasudeva Nanayakkaara speaking in Parliament recalled that based on a petition filed by him in 2007 about a corrupt deal made by Chandrika misusing her executive power, the Supreme Court gave a ruling ordering the Police to carry out further investigations on this fraudulent deal and despite that ruling […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island November 21, 2017, 8:39 pm All signs are that the sins of errant political potentates who stood to gain from the biggest ever financial crime in Sri Lanka—the Treasury bond scams—will be laid on a lesser person who has no political future to worry about and is in a position to run […]

By SANJA DE SILVA JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island November 21, 2017, 8:46 pm The nation waited with bated breath as the PM, in his capacity as Minister in charge of the Central Bank, was called before the Bond Commission. The people of Sri Lanka had seen the ferocious efficiency with which the inquiry was conducted […]

Courtesy The Island I, Ranil Wickremesinghe, the Prime Minister and Minister of National Policies & Economic Affairs of “Temple Trees”, Colombo 3 being a Buddhist do hereby solemnly, sincerely and truly declare and affirm as follows, 1. I am the affirmant above named. 2. The PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION OF INQUIRY TO INVESTIGATE, INQUIRE AND REPORT THE […]

By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Courtesy The Island “… A specialist brought down from the US Treasury, said Wickremesinghe, introduced the Government to this system. “We had to go ahead with macroeconomic liberalization to get integrated into the global economy,” he said. Agreements with IMF and other documents were furnished by the Premier to the Commission to […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Top Joint Opposition (JO) spokesman MP Bandula Gunawardena has found fault with TNA MP and COPE (Committee on Public Enterprises) member M.A. Sumanthiran for representing an interdicted Central Bank employee, Sangarapillai Pathumanapan, investigated by the CID in connection with the just concluded presidential commission of inquiry into alleged bond scams. […]

Gomin Dayasri Courtesy The Daily Mirror Events in the public realm make politics bizarre. President Sirisena suggests Ranil Wickremesinghe should step down as Prime Minister before he gave evidence at the Bond Commission. So some newspapers report. Can a 9 % minority oust the will of an 80 % majority in a North-South battle at a referendum? […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror In a fine example of good governance and its principle of all being equal before the law, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday appeared before the Presidential Commission probing the alleged scams in the Central Bank bond issues and testified for about 90 minutes. Reports say he answered about 48 questions, […]

By Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka Courtesy The Daily Mirror It was amusing to see Mr. Sampanthan of the TNA ascending to his full moral height in the Budget debate and making an impassioned oratorical appeal to Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa, while sitting in (rising from) the seat that rightfully belongs to Mahinda and which Mr. Sampanthan has no moral […]

By Canishka Witharana Courtesy The Daily Mirror Buddhist thinking superimposed upon all Eastern thought the notion of the equality of all human beings – C.G. Weeramanthry Social contract theory requires the Govt to use such power for peace, safety and public good of the people Giving foremost place to Buddhism proved to be a sound constitutional […]

By Hafeel Farisz Courtesy The Daily Mirror Relationships of this sort are found in white collar criminal gangs  It was clear that they were on the side of Aloysius during the process  The replacement of MP Velu Kumar by Sujeewa Senasinghe shows it was all organised I didn’t go to ask them if the phone calls […]

By Ranga Jayasuriya Courtesy The Daily Mirror Government parliamentarians and their peers in the joint opposition seem to agree at least on one thing; their opposition to the Attorney General’s Department for revealing secret telephone conversations among government members of the Committee on Public Enterprise (COPE) and Perpetual Treasuries Ltd. owner Arjun Aloysius. Since it is […]

Ed Tick, Ph.D In contrast to our modern situation, traditional and indigenous peoples had extensive spiritually and communally based warrior medicine, practices and lineages. They lived immersed in and part of nature and its processes, conceived of themselves not as independent agents but as members of interdependent communities, and stood in wonder before a living […]

By: A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA Do we need a new constitution for the country and who wants it? Neither the ordinary Sinhala nor Tamil people nor people belonging to other communities ask for a new constitution. What all of them ask for is for a peaceful country in which they can live without fear and favour […]

බැදුම්කර මගඩිය සම්බන්දයෙන් චෝදනා එල්ල වී ඇති අර්ජුන් ඇලෝසියස් සමග විශලා දුරකතන ඇමතුම් ප‍්‍රමාණයක් ලබා ගත්තේ යයි හෙලිව සිටින රාජ්‍ය ඇමති සුජීව සේනසිංහට පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී ප‍්‍රබල විවේචනයකට ලක් වන්නට සිදු විය. පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී ඩී.වී. චානක එක හුස්මටම ඇමති සේනසිංහට චෝදනා එල්ල කලේ කිසිවක් කීමට ඉඩක් නොතබමිනි. එල්ල වන චෝදනාවන්ට රාජ්‍ය ඇමතිවරයා සුළ මැදිහත්වීම් කරන්නට උත්සාහ කලද […]

“We have nothing to hide – PM” : Yes, True : Every things has come out.  (1st  Nominated  3 goons to investigate the robbery by himself, blackmailed  & framed the Junior UNP MPs to protect his corrupt acts,  setup  the UNP goons  to messed with  the COPE  enquiry & ..  : despite all ,  everything  things […]

ඇම්  ඩී  පී  දිසානායක විසිනි   තාප්ප කණුවෙ තනි කකුලෙන් හිටපු    මට කෝප්ප නැතුව පොල් කට්ටෙන් බීපු    මට ආප්ප කකා මහරජු ගොන් කරපු        මට හෙලුවෙන් වුනත් රජකම කලහැකිය    මට