BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The budget Speech with the proposals for 2019 presented to the parliament clearly reflected that the government has failed to develop or open right policies to take the country to a right path for rapid development and a sustainable growth. Since 1957 Sri Lanka has been sticked to wrong budget policies and […]

By Udaya P Gammanpila Courtesy Ceylon Today The glorious King Ravana ruled Sri Lanka 4,500 years ago.  He was known as ‘Dasabala’ because of his expert knowledge in ten different subjects. Somebody may allege that Ravana’s achievements have been exaggerated by historians. Surprisingly, King Ravana’s abilities and achievements have been elaborated not by his followers but […]

Sudath Gunasekara 10.3.2019. The whole nation wants the President to declare the US Ambassador persona non grata immediately as she is clearly and blatantly interfering with our domestic politics in which she has no business as a Diplomat. Only last week she visited Hambantota port with a CIA Agent and now it is followed by […]

By Palitha M Senanayake The recent utterance about the sanitary facilities in Hambanthota district during the Budget speech by Sri Lanka’s Finance Minister Hon. Mangala Samaraweera is typical of his flippant character and political opportunism. He stated that ‘even though the roads of Hambanthota district are paved beyond expectations there are 15,000 houses without toilet […]

Sugath Samarrsinghe This country has been on a quest to find a system of government since the State Council days, that will best suite the genius of the people, since the change in 1815. We came by the executive presidential system, whatever its original motives were, and it has been with us for the last […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised 12.34.19 This essay examines two aspects of the Tamil language issue, language rights” and the support of the Marxist/Leftist political parties for the Tamil language. The Tamil language lobby argued that the Tamils of Sri Lanka had ‘language rights’. However, the UN  Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or […]

ජනමාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයය ලංකා ගුරුසේවා සංගමය. – Ceylon Teacher’s Services Union. Ctsu Lanka 2019. 03. 08 ගරු අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍ය, අකිල විරාජ් කාරියවසම් මැතිතුමා, අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශය, ඉසුරුපාය, බත්තරමුල්ල. අමාත්‍යතුමණි, ජාතික පාසල් විදුහල්පති තනතුරු පුරප්පාඩු සම්බන්ධවයි. ජාතික පාසල් 354 න් 302 ක විදුහල්පති තනතුරු පුරප්පාඩුව පැවතීම සම්බන්ධව අප සංගමය විසින් දිගින් දිගටම පෙන්වා දුන් අතර ඒවා කඩිනමින් පිරවීමට […]

මාර්තු මස 13 වන දින ගුරු ගැටලු විසඳීමට බලකරන, උද්ඝෝෂණය හා රැලිය පිළිබදව දැනුවත් කිරීමේ මාධ්‍ය හමුව අද(03-10) පැවැත්විණ. මේ මාධ්‍ය හමුව සදහා ලංකා ගුරු සංගමය ස්වාධීන අධ්‍යාපන සේවක සංගමය ඒකාබද්ධ ගුරු සේවා සංගමය නිදහස් ලංකා පුරෝගාමී ගුරු සංගමය ලංකා ප්‍රගති ගුරු සංගමය ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් ගුරු සංගමය ශ්‍රේණිධාරී විදුහල්පති සේවා සංගමය ගුරු විමුක්ති පෙරමුණ […]

Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nation Geneva Sri Lanka has a longstanding history in preserving and nurturing the environment, and has made considered policies and programmes making the environment an enduring aspect of its sustainable national development”, Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative in Geneva, Ambassador A.L.A. Azeez stated. Addressing the 2019 World Wildlife […]

RANJITH SOYSA March 8, 2019, 12:00 pm The UN’s highest court recently ruled that the UK’s claim of sovereignty over the Chagos Islands is illegal. It was stated that the UK’s continued administration of the islands “constitutes a wrongful act entailing the international responsibility of that state”. Mauritius reported to the courts that the UK forced […]