Turkey’s denial for full EU membership a case that has been going on for 30 years is a lesson to other non-European nations like India, Japan, South Korea that loves to go behind the West functioning as their lapdogs and being their loyal strategic partners believing that the EU considers them on par with them. […]

 ගෝඨාබය රාජපක්ෂ හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම්  හිටපු ආරක්‍ෂක ලේකම් ගෝටාභය රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා විසින් නිකුත් කරන ලද නිවේදනයක් මෙහි දැක්වෙයි. නීතිය අවනීතිය කරණ වත්මන් රජයේ පොලිස් විමර්ශණ පසුගිය කාලය පුරා අවන්ගාර්ඩ් මැරිටයිම් සර්විසස්, රක්නා ලංකා ආරක්ෂක සේවා, ගුවන් හමුදාවට මිග් යානා මිලදී ගැනීම, ඩී ඒ රාජපක්ෂ පදනම වැනි විෂයන් රාශියක් යටතේ විවිධ විමර්ශණ පවත්වමින් මගේ චරිතය ඝාතනය […]

By C. A. Chanadraprema Courtesy The Island February 28, 2018, 10:36 pm In a recent article titled “Yahapalana government as a hyper-debt regime”, Professor Milton Rajaratne of the University of Peradeniya has pointed out that even though the yahapalana government accuses the Rajapaksa government of having imposed an immense debt burden on the country, the present […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island At the outset, I’d like to make it clear to the reader that the word ‘nationalism’ (and related forms) is used here in its basic meaning of ‘the love of one’s country, the principles, and efforts that the feeling characterizes’. But in Sri Lanka today, anti-nationalist agents, propagandists […]

කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ/කැෆේ සංවිධානය මඟ නැගුම සභාපතිවරයා පසුගිය පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණ සමයේ රාජ්‍ය  සේවයේ නිරතවන අතරතුර දේශපාලන ක්‍රියාකාරිකයෙකු ලෙස කටයුතු කර ඇති බවට කැෆේ සංවිධානය  මැතිවරණ කොමිසම වෙත පැමිණිලි කරයි. පසුගිය පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණ සමයේ එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂ  මැතිවරණ මෙහෙයුම් කාර්යාල ප්‍රධානියා ලෙස කටයුතු කළ රජිව් සෙනවිරත්න නැමත්තා පිළිබඳව කැෆේ සංවිධානය මෙසේ පැමිණිලි කර තිබේ. […]

 lanka C news පසුගිය කාලය පුරාම සාමාන්‍ය මහා ජනතාව අතර අල්ලසට දුෂණයට විරුද්ධව ලොකු හඩක් රට පුරා තිබුණු බවත් එය මැතිවරණයේදී ජනතාව විසින් ඔප්පු කල බවත් එක්සත් ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ ප්‍රධාන ලේකම් මෛත්‍රී ගුණරත්න මහතා පවසනවා. ඒ මහතා මේ බව පැවසුවේ ගාල්ලේ පවතී ජන හමුවක් අමතමිනි. මෙහිදී වැඩි දුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ ගුණරත්න මහතා කියාසිටියේ පසුගිය […]

By Dayan Jayatilleka Courtesy The Daily Mirror Partially paralyzed by contradictions above and within, and under mass pressure from below and without, a crisis of governability is looming With the election result, the Yahapalana coalition Government is like a predator with a poison arrow embedded in its flesh, which has lurched into a quagmire. The […]

President should remove SLFP from national govt – Sarath Wijesekara ජනාධිපති රටට ආදරේ නම් ශ්‍රීල.නි.ප මන්ත්‍රීවරු ජාතික ආණ්ඩුවෙන් ඉවත් කර ගත යුතුයි

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island February 27, 2018, 8:57 pm JVP leader and Chief Opposition Whip, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, on Feb. 19, 2018 declared that those who had joined forces to oust the then President Mahinda Rajapaksa, at the Jan.8, 2015 presidential election would never get together again. An irate Dissanayake warned SLFP leader President […]

By Dr. Kamal Wickremasinghe Courtesy The Island February 27, 2018, 8:47 pm As has been observed by many, the electorate recorded a wholesale abandonment of the false promise of yahapalanaya at the February 10 local government elections. The collective in power however, has refused to concede the irrefutable repudiation of the 2015 fraud by the public […]

Dilrook Kannangara A Muslim eatery in Ampara was the subject of alleged mixing of sterilizing pills in food. A tense situation broke out. Although the police arrested alleged suspects, politicians will ensure they get away. The cashier of the hotel is seen admitting to the offence on camera. https://youtu.be/RyQHBWno99M https://video-syd2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t42.1790-2/28563633_191839628244626_6433100963405365248_n.mp4?efg=eyJ2ZW5jb2RlX3RhZyI6InN2ZV9zZCJ9&oh=f71d5d5b53de2342bdf9f77fe19a1a95&oe=5A9553D1 https://www.facebook.com/184092005698258/videos/187227938717998/ This is not the […]

By Charles.S.Perera He is a Prince by his hereditary right, but his thinking and understanding  it seems are far from that of a  Prince. A real Prince becomes so by his action and ability to see through things to sift facts from fiction to understand the truth to help the mankind, and not by been […]

By Gandara John “Fascism is the merger of State and Corporate power” – Benito Mussolini The Neoliberals in the US manipulated World War 2 to dismantle prominent European White-Settler Empires, some of which had stood a near three centuries. Simplistically put, World War 2 had become a bloody drama where European Whites warred against each […]

 By Sarath de Alwis Courtesy Ceylon Today We will correct our mistakes and make some radical policy changes – UNP backbenchers after LG Polls. Let’s face it. Mahinda Rajapaksa equated power with control. Under his rule, we contained our discontent. But we retained our sanity. Mahinda did not mock our sanity. He did not insult our […]

MEDIA RELEASE Mahinda Rajapaksa Former President of Sri Lanka The government has introduced in parliament the Active Liability Management Bill seeking authorization to borrow over Rs. one trillion from local and foreign sources, over and above the yearly borrowing limit set by parliament. The yahapalana government has been irresponsible and reckless in borrowing money from its inception. […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති පාර්ලිමේන්තුවෙන් වසරක් පාසා පනවන ණය ගැනීමේ සීමාව ඉක්මවා, විධායකයට  වෙනම රුපියල් ට්‍රිලියනයක (එනම් බිලියන දහසක) ණය දේශීය හෝ විදේශීය මූලාශ්‍ර වලින් ලබා ගැනීමට හැකිවන පරිදි නව නීතියක් සම්පාදනය කිරීම සඳහා ආණ්ඩුව සක්‍රීය බැරකම් කළමනාකරණය කිරීම” යන මැයෙන් පනත් කෙටුම්පතක් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට හඳුන්වා දී ඇත. යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුව මුලසිටම ණය ගැනීම් […]

Sarath Wijesinghe – former Ambassador to UAE and Israel National Economic council and the Mandate NEC headed by President Sirisena” has taken a drastic and decisive move by appointing high powered committee including Prime Minister Wickramasinghe” to manage Economy” will meet bi-annually to implement urgent fast tract policies in/for the next two years towards victory […]

By Palitha Ariyarathna Buddha and Buddhist life began to criticize by many news in the world and it’s deeply hurting the Buddhist world.  Peoples who are deal always with the judgments and criticisms about Buddhism insulting the Buddha by making bikinis with Buddha or bodi satwa state, using Buddhist emblems in their toilet accessories, or posting […]

By SANJA DE SILVA JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island The UNHRC’s High Level Segment is in session now, and is due to discuss Sri Lanka’s progress on the implementation of the Resolutions that this governmenteagerly co-sponsored in 2015 and 2017. Thereport of its progress is due to be presented later in the session, but one of the […]

Lasantha’s bones are in Fonseka’s closet – Ajith Prasanna (English)

Dr Hector Perera             London Energy means money that one has to spend to get them. Gas and electric are the main sources of energy in most countries unlike in the past. In the past back in Sri Lanka they used firewood stoves to cook and still some countries they use these resources for energy for […]

By Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha Courtesy Ceylon Today Now that it looks like we have Ranil to stay for a few months more, it may be instructive to examine how he often cannot help cutting off his nose to spite his face. What happened way back when he was Prime Minister came back to me when he […]

By Eranda Ginige Courtesy Ceylon Today It is funny how a vast majority of the Lankan citizens haven’t even read, let alone understood the Constitution of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. It is mindboggling how such ignorant people elect representatives every five years to govern, on behalf of them. It’s like watching a cricket […]

UNP MPs ready to bring no-confidence motion against PM – Range Bandara (English)

Courtesy The Island February 26, 2018, 9:21 pm Apropos the Sunday Island lead story former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa has issued the following statement: “My attention is drawn to the lead story of The Sunday Island of 25th February 2018, under the caption “Police cover up in Lasantha murder emerge after key arrest”. They story […]

මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය කැෆේ සංවිධානය  අලුත් අවුරුද්ද අවසන් වෙන තෙක්ම පළාත් පාලන ආයතන පිහිටුවන්න බැරි අරාජික තත්වයක් මෛත්‍රී-රනිල් ආණ්ඩුව සකසා ඇති බව කැෆේ සංවිධානය කියයි.එම සංවිධානයේ විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා අද (27) කොළඹදී පැවැති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදී මේ බව සඳහන් කළේ  කවුරුන් කා සමඟ  සන්ධානගත වන්නේද යන්න තීරණය වන තුරු මෙම  පළාත් පාලන ආයතන පිහිටුවීමේ ප්‍රශ්නය නොවිසදෙන […]

P.A.Samaraweera The media reported that due to pressure from the UK, military attache Brigadier Fernando had been recalled to Sri Lanka. During the last few weeks a lot had been written about the gesture made by Brig Fernando. As an Officer who fought the LTTE  he should have avoided confronting the demonstrators. But, of course he had […]

ALI SUKHANVER It has ever been a misconception that the Prime Minister of India, Mr. Modi has enmity only with the Muslims and Pakistan but recently it came to the surface that he hates not only the Muslims and Pakistan but also the Congress. If he had an authority and opportunity, he would have hanged […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando. With the Municipal and Local Council elections held on 10 February 2018, introducing a new electoral system, the Lotus Bud (Pohottuwa) of Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna [SLPP] supported by Mahinda Rajapaksa, blossomed with a sweeping landslide victory, thus serving a sledge hammer blow on the two leaders of the Unity […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today If after 70 years of democracy, installed by the British, we are at the brink of having our country broken into pieces, we should realize the way we handle issues is wrong. Even before the British departed, certain Tamil politicians had already taken cudgels against what they termed as the […]