Archive for October 20th, 2019
Sunday, October 20th, 2019
Garvin Karunaratne, former G.A. Matara Red Onions was a major crop produced in the Jaffna Peninsula. Gerry Stevens the Assistant Commissioner ran round in circles to ensure that the cooperatives bought red onions from producers at the premium price we offered and handed the stocks to our stores where we stored them and dispatched them […]
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Sunday, October 20th, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS Sri Lanka should take a look at the way other countries are dealing with USA. We could start with Iran. USA’s interest in Iran started due to its oil. American companies were drilling Iran’s oil. USA got rid of Iran’s popular ruler, Mossadegh and replaced him with the awful Shah Reza Pahlavi. The […]
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Sunday, October 20th, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS USA had planned to entrench itself comfortably in Sri Lanka immediately after the regime change of 2015. ‘What we offer Sri Lanka is a true and transparent partnership, particularly in terms of development and infrastructure, avoiding unsustainable debts,’ said USA to Sri Lanka. ‘Your country stands to gain substantially from these opportunities.’ Unfortunately, […]
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Sunday, October 20th, 2019
By Chandre Dharmawardana. According to news reports (e.g., Island 18-Oct.-2019), the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi”, a constituent party of the The Tamil National Alliance” (TNA) has hurled a 13-point request letter into the political arena of the presidential stakes, even though the prospective president has been shackled by the 19th amendment crafted by the Jayampathy-Sumanthiran […]
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Sunday, October 20th, 2019
Asoka Kuruppu US ship visits, aircraft transits, and small unit exercises happening in Sri Lanka at the moment are reminiscent of what the US attempted with the Philippines. History tells us how the inherent and entrenched anxieties and phobias the US arms manufacturers and high military officials have, has led to building war bases all […]
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Sunday, October 20th, 2019
V. KITHSIRI Courtesy The Island Our constitution is there to safeguard the rights of every individual irrespective of their race, religion, and ethnicity. This is one of the basic requirements in a secular country. I’m in the opinion that application forms for the candidates for the forthcoming Presidential election do not require them to declare […]
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Sunday, October 20th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana The Chairman of the ‘Organization for the Protection of Muslim Rights’ Moulavi Mohamed Miflal says that he is has received a lot of harassment following the revelation of the controversial video of Minister Rauff Hakeem and Easter attacks ringleader Zahran Hashim. The ‘Organization for the Protection of Muslim Rights’ handed over to police […]
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Sunday, October 20th, 2019
Courtesy Ceylon Today Presidential candidate of New Democratic Front (NDF) Sajith Premadasa pledged to reduce existing taxes and introduce reforms to the current tax system to encourage entrepreneurs. Addressing a meeting of entrepreneurs, Premadasa said his future administration will create an environment where entrepreneurs can gain more opportunities to widen the scopes of their businesses. […]
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Sunday, October 20th, 2019
Ishara Silva Courtesy Ceylon Today Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Presidential Candidate, Gotabaya Rajapaksa said that under his rule, the existing VAT will be reduced to 8% and taxes imposed on salaries of labourers and middle-class workers will be removed. He said that the VAT which was previously at 20% has been reduced to 11% […]
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Sunday, October 20th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana Minister Rauff Hakeem stated that he was checking on his supporters over harassment by M.L.A.M. Hizbullah, back in 2015, when the ringleader behind the Easter Sunday terror attack, Zahran Hashim, attended the meeting. Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) leader stated this commenting on a video clip released on a discussion from a discussion […]
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Sunday, October 20th, 2019
දෙව්සිරි පී. හේවාවිදාන ලන්ඩන් නුවර සිට…උපුටා ගැන්ම අරුණ පුවත් ජනාධිපතිවරණයට දැන් ඇත්තේ මාසයකටත් වඩා නොඅඩු කාලයකි. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ පුවත්පත්, රූපවාහිනී නාළිකා ගුවන් විදුලි සේවා සියල්ල තුළින් අපට අහන්නට දකින්නට ලැබෙන්නේ අපේ රට සුරපුරයක් කිරීම සඳහා පරහිතකාමී ඡන්ද අපේක්ෂකයන් වෙහෙසෙන අන්දමයි. තම ජීවිතය පරදුවට තබා ජනතාව වෙනුවෙන් සේවය කිරීමට ඔවුන් දරන උතුම් වෙහෙස මහන්සියයි. අපේක්ෂකයන් 35 […]
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Sunday, October 20th, 2019
තුෂාර උඩවත්ත උපුටා ගැන්ම අරුණ පුවත් පොහොට්ටුව සමග දීග යන ලෙසට ශ්රීලනිපයට බලපෑම් කළේ ඔහුය. එම දීගය සිදු නොවුණානම් මේ වනවිට ඔහු ශ්රීලනිපයේ නැත. ශ්රීලනිපයේ ජ්යෙෂ්ඨ උප සභාපති නිමල් සිරිපාල ද සිල්වා තමන්ගේ එම අප්රතිහත උත්සාහය ගැනත් වත්මන් දේශපාලන භූමිකාව ගැනත් දක්වන්නේ මෙවැනි අදහසකි. ගෝඨාභයට සහයෝගය දිය යුතුයි යන ස්ථාවරයේ ඔබ තදින් සිටියා. අනෙක් පාර්ශ්වයේ […]
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Sunday, October 20th, 2019
වජිර ලියනගේ උපුටා ගැන්ම අරුණ පුවත් ලංකාවේ වැඩිම මිලට අලෙවි වන මල කුමක්දැයි ඔබත් ඇසුවහොත් ඔබ ඕකිඩ්, ගාඩිනියා, ලැවැන්ඩර් ආදී විවිධ මල් වර්ග සිහියට නගා ගනු ඇත්තේ නිතැතිනි. එහෙත් ලංකාවේ මිල අධිකම මල ඔය කියන එක කෙහෙල්මලක් නොවේ. ලංකාවේ මිල අධිකම මල සාදික්කා මලය. එය පිටකොටුවේ කුළු බඩු තොග අලෙවිකරුවන් අතර තොග මිල කිලෝවක් රුපියල් […]
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Sunday, October 20th, 2019
FB ශ්රී පාදස්ථානයේ ඝණ්ඨාරය ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් සොරාගෙන ගොස් ඇති බවට එල්ල වන චෝදනාව ශ්රීපාදස්ථානාධිපති පූජ්ය බෙංගමුවේ ධම්මදින්න නාහිමියෝ දැඩිව ප්රතික්ෂේප කරති.උන්වහන්සේ සඳහන් කරන්නේ මේ මොහොත වන විටද ශ්රී පාදස්ථානයේ ඝණ්ඨාර එහි තිබෙන බවයි.එවන් අසත්ය කතාවක් ප්රචාරය කළ සිරස රූපවාහිනී නාලිකාවටද නාහිමියෝ දැඩිව විවේචනය එල්ල කළහ.මෙවන් ප්රකාශයන් සිදු කිරීම හා ඒයා පළ කිරීම ඉතාමත් […]
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Sunday, October 20th, 2019
Who are the people tasked to listen to grievances? A government & its apparatus, society groups, the courts at local level and then at international levels – the UN, international organizations etc. These entities have been around for quite a while now but whose problems have they listened to and whose problems have they solved? […]
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