Not everyone can or wants to enter politics. Not everyone can or wants to be a politician. There have been plenty of women in politics some making a global name for themselves like Sirimavo Bandaranaike and they did so without a women’s quota even existing nor expecting any special privileges because they were women. In […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The Sri Lanka Freedom Party which is fielding its own candidates in the North, played a Tamil Eelam song to draw a bigger crowd for a ceremony held in a hotel to release its manifesto. The song referred to the military occupation of lands belonging to the Tamils and the […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  මා වෛද්‍ය අධ්‍යාපනය ලබන්නේ සෝවියට් දේශයේ උසස් අධ්‍යාපනික ආයතනයකය​. ඉන් පසුව එක්සත් ජනපදයේ හා කැනඩාවේ  විශ්ව විද්‍යාල වල මම මනෝ විද්‍යාව හැදෑරුවෙමි . මේ හැර මම එක්සත් රාජධානියේ බාන්ස්ලි විද්‍යාලයේ ළමා මනෝ විද්‍යාව හදාරා තිබේ. දේශීය ආයතන අතරින් මම කොලඹ වෛද්‍ය විද්‍යාලයේ ඔකියුපේෂනල් මෙඩිසින්  පාඨමාලාව හදාරා සහතික ලැබුවෙමි. වර්තමානයේ මම ඔස්ට්‍රියානු විශ්ව […]

Sri Lanka News With his party and alliance, Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and United Peoples’ Freedom Alliance (UPFA), refusing to accept United National Party (UNP) leader Ranil Wickremesinghe as Prime Minister in a coalition government, Ranil’s  Government  is on the verge of collapsing now. Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena had intended to address editors […]

By Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy The Island February 16, 2018, 10:06 pm While satirical drawings are the stuff of the Pohottuva success in the recent polls and cartoonists are having a great time laughingly depicting the reality of politics and politicos, one cartoon that stood out this week was in a Sinhala publication that showed President Sirisena […]

A. Patabendige Colombo 05 Courtesy The Island February 16, 2018, 10:04 pm “….Ranil Wickremesinghe showed his inherent hatred towards the Sinhalese and especially Sinhalese Buddhists’. (‘Page 16- Charge of the Lion Brigade’- Patali Champika Ranawaka 2009) Dauris, the British High Commissioner, led the charge of the lost empire on the miniscule SL Foreign Ministry to protest […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island We thought coercion was antithetical to good governance or yahapalanaya. But, a prominent advocate of good governance has called upon the government not to baulk at anything in its efforts to overcome challenges to its rule. He has demanded that even measures that may not be in conformity with democratic norms be […]

By Anura Balasuriya Courtesy The Island President Maithripala Sirisena told Joint Opposition (JO) MPs yesterday that he would consult the Attorney General and legal experts on the possibility of removing Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe as regards the provisions of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. The President said so when he met the JO parliament group members […]

එක්සත් ජාතික පක්‍ෂය හා ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්‍ෂය අතර ජාතික ආණ්ඩුවක් පිහිටුවීමට වසර දෙකක කාලයක් සදහා අත්සන් කරන ලද අවබෝධනා ගිවිසුම කල් ඉකුත් වී අහෝසි වීමත් සමග රනිල් වික‍්‍රමසිංහ මහතාගේ අගමැති ධුරය මෙන්ම කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලයට බලශුන්‍ය බල රහිත වන බව නීතීවේදීහු පෙන්වා දෙති. පසුගිය දෙසැම්බර් මාසයෙන් ජාතික ආණ්ඩු ගිවිසුම කල් ඉකුත් වූ නිසා එතැන් සිට […]

By Kusal Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Local Government elections concluded a week ago may perhaps remain the only one in our history that created a major crisis in the Central Government. In fact as I wrote in my last Friday column that the fate of Sri Lanka has already been decided by other factors […]