KAMALIKA PIERIS The Advisory Council to the Paranagama Commission   has made a valuable contribution to the current war crimes” issue regarding Eelam War IV.  The Advisory Council consisted of three international legal experts, Sir Desmond de Silva, QC. (UK) as Chairman, with Sir Geoffrey Nice QC. (UK) and   David M. Crane (USA). The Commission also […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara 15.1.2018. Welcome and Congratulations to Supreme Court. It has proved that the court is supreme and the law is above all including the President. A big consolation for the people of this country. Now going by the constitutional provisions (19th Amendment) this is common sense. Anyone who knows the ABCD of law […]

Chaturanga Samarawickrama Courtesy  The Daily Mirror President Maithripala Sirisena will definitely contest at the next presidential election in the event the executive presidency is not abolished and the constitution is not changed, State Minister of Finance, Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said today. He told the weekly Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) news briefing that President Sirisena would […]

Courtesy  The Daily Mirror The report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into bond issuance has been published online on the President’s official website. In a tweet, President Maithripala Sirisena said the report of the Commission was now available online keeping his promise of ensuring transparency. The English version of the report could be accessed […]

CaFFE Press Statement – If President Maithripala Sirisena still trusts Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, he has not read the report submitted by Presidential Commission of Inquiry on the controversial Treasury bond transactions, said Rajith Keerthi Tennakoon, Executive Director of the Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE). Moreover the Prime Minister has shown that he […]

Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to UN in Geneva Consideration of the 5th and 6th Periodic Reports of Sri Lanka under the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) took place at the 77th Session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) held at the Palais Wilson in Geneva, on 15th January 2018.  Mrs. Chandrani […]

Mahinda Gunasekera Toronto, Canada His Excellency Maithripala Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka, Honourable Cabinet Ministers, Deputy Ministers  and Heads of Departments, I received the following Facebook Communication sent out by the Canadian Tamil Congress (CTC) from a friend in Toronto regarding their Thaipongal event scheduled to be held on the 20th of January 2018. The CTC has […]

මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය කැෆේ සංවිධානය මෙවර පළාත් පාලන ඡන්ද විමසීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් නිදහස් හා සාධාරණ මැතිවරණයක් සඳහා වූ ජනතා ව්‍යාපාරය (කැෆේ සංවිධානය) විසින්  අත් පොතක් ප්‍රකාශයට පත් කර තිබේ එම අත් පොත පහත ඇති පිවිසුමෙන් ඩවුන්ලෝඩ් කර ගැනීමට හෝ  කියවිමට හැකි ය.   නීතිඥ ජගත්  ලියනආරච්චි මහතා විසින් සම්පාදනය කරන ලද කැෆේ සංවිධානය විසින් ප්‍රකාශයට පත් කරන ලද […]

President Maithripala Sirisena said in Elpitiya that operation number two has begun on the bond commission report as he instructed the Attorney General and other stakeholders to proceed with legal action based on the report.

Courtesy  The Daily Mirror Speaker’s attention has been drawn to take necessary action against the Committee On Public Enterprises (COPE) members who had conversations with Perpetual Treasuries Limited (PTL) owner Arjun Aloysius during COPE proceedings into Central Bank Bond scam, Presidential Media Unit (PMD) said. A statement issued by the PMD said it was revealed […]

By Fr. Augustine Fernando Diocese of Badulla Courtesy The Island The group of leaders who came together to get Independence from the colonial powers could not stay united for five years. The destinies of the nation were submerged due to the leaders not sitting together and formulating a vision of national priorities and a practical strategy […]

By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island “There is great disorder under heaven. The situation is excellent!”—Mao Zedong “A Change is Gonna Come…”–Sam Cooke We have just commenced Yahapalana Year 4. The third anniversary of Yahapalanaya is also the third anniversary of the defeat of the Rajapaksa regime. Both anniversaries coincide happily with the imminence of […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy Island Top Joint Opposition (JO) spokesman Prof. G.L. Peiris yesterday welcomed the unanimous Supreme Court decision that President Maithripala Sirisena’s term of office was five years. Prof. Peiris said so when The Island asked him at the JO regular media briefing at Punchi Borella whether it accepted that in spite of accusations […]