C.Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. Talking once with a miner I asked him when the housing shortage first became acute in his district; he answered, when we were told about it,” meaning that till recently people’s standards were so low that they took almost any degree of overcrowding for granted. George Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA It seems that Chandrka and Rajitha are two politicians extremely hated and despised by the Sri Lankans. Whenever a news item relating to them gets published, people hurry to use the most impolite language to flay them.   The following is a news item published recently with comments made by the […]

By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island Prime Minister Wickremesinghe scored a tactical victory in the power struggle with President Sirisena. He won it on terrain that was favorable to President Sirisena. This means that in the art of infighting and manipulation, Ranil Wickremesinghe has no peer in Lankan politics. What of Mahinda Rajapaksa who won […]

By Saman Indrajith Courtesy The Island Ongoing political impasse was going to continue further as the SLFP’s Maithri faction had been instructed by President Maithripala Sirisena to wait till the Supreme Court interpreted the provisions of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution giving power to him to sack the Prime Minister, Parliament was told yesterday. Deputy […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President and MP Mahinda Rajapaksa today said it was none other than President Maithripala Sirisena who keeps Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in his post without ousting him. The former president said this in response to a question asked by a journalist when he was leaving Parliament. When asked his opinion […]

By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena has requested the UPFA members in the government not to quit the National Government, until the Supreme Court conveys its opinion, as it could destabilize the country, MP Thilanga Sumathipala said. The SLFP Spokesman was delivering a statement during the Parliament debate today (19), in reference to a statement […]

By Leon Berenger Courtesy Ceylon Today Two weeks after the untimely death of Professor Bellanwila Wimalarathana Thera – Chief monk of the Bellanwila Rajamaha Vihara more questions are being asked on the circumstances that led to his demise amidst calls for a thorough probe into the incident. At first they said that the priest had been […]

By Bandula Guneratne Courtesy Ceylon Today Throughout the history of this country giving promises to the electorate on the guarantee that they will be fulfilled has almost become a tradition in party politics. Though some of those promises tend to get fulfilled after elections, the majority tend to be intentionally overlooked by the politicians. The public […]

By Arjuna Ranawana Courtesy Ceylon Today One of the strongest pillars of mature, stable democracies is the presence of two established political parties. In the West, countries like Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and others see that power has changed hands over the years between two parties. In Canada and the UK there are similar […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE Sri Lanka’s newest and modern political machine is at work.   It has reached the hearts and minds of average Sri Lankan.  There is no need to soft peddle. SLPP  is  not to be associated with corrupt UNP and SLFPers.  We need not talk about it any more. The SLPP is […]

DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA As a Pohottuwa voter I am appalled by what is happening, to wit:  the attempt by certain Pohottuva bigwigs to set up or back an SLFP Government under Sirisena.  I can’t speak for others, but as far as I am concerned I didn’t vote for the Pohottuva in order to get Ranil ousted […]

 lanka C news ජාතික ආණ්ඩුවෙන් ඉවත් වීමට කිසිදු තීරණයක් ජනාධිපතිවරයාගේ ප‍්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අද රැස්වූ ශ‍්‍රීලනිප මන්ත‍්‍රී කණ්ඩායම විසින් නොගත් බව ඇමති එස්.බී. දිසානායක මහතා පවසයි. ජනාධිපති ලේකම් කාර්යාලයේදී ජනාධිපතිවරයා සමග පැවති සාකච්චාවෙන් පසු මාධ්‍ය වෙත අදහස් පල කරමින් ඔහු මේ බව කීය. කෙසේ වෙතත් ආණ්ඩුවේ සිදු විය යුතු වෙනස් වීම් සම්බන්ධයෙන් පක්‍ෂයේ මතය එලෙසින්ම ඇති බවත් […]

 lanka C news පසුගිය පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණයෙන් ලද ජනතා ප‍්‍රතිචාරය අනුව ජනාධිපතිවරයාට තව දුරටත් ජනාධිපති පුටුවේ හෝ අගමැතිවරයාට අගමැති පුටුවේ හෝ සිටීමට කිසිදු සදාචාරාත්මක අයිතියක් නැති බව ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා පවසයි. අද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී මන්ත‍්‍රිවරයා මේ අදහස් පල කලේය. එක්සත් ජනතා නිදහස් සන්දානය ජාතික ආණ්ඩුවෙන් ඉවත් වන්නේ යයි සන්ධාන මහ […]

Sarath Wijesinghe (Former Ambassador to Israel and UAE/Former Chairman CAA –Solicitor in England and Wales/Attorney-at-Law) Consumerism in the Modern/Digital Age Marketing is fast changing in the world with modern consumerism in the digital world. Digital market platforms are fast invading the world having currently settled in the west and so called developed world slowly and […]