By Dr.Tilak S.Fernando The Coronavirus entered the 3rd wave in Sri Lanka, and the number of deaths is increasing daily. However, the Government and the  National Operation Centre for Preventing Covid-19 still seem to follow instructions from a set of western orientated experts and maintain that the injection is the only solution to stop the […]

Laksiri Warnakula   One boasts; how well the nation-wide vaccination programme is going. And then we have another, who tried to get in the way of health officials at a vaccination centre, demanding that the chit-bearers coming from him be given priority over the rest of the ordinary people in waiting (The editorial of the Island […]

Arun Siddharth Arulanandam TO EXPATS AND OTHERS – PLEASE DONATE FUNDS TO OBTAIN DRY RATIONS AS A GOODWILL GESTURE TO THOSE IN NEED in Jaffna. A request came in today – May 25, 2021. Due to lockdown, the Civil Society will purchase from known vendors and Cargills and distribute. Deliveries are not possible due to […]

WION https://youtu.be/xbbwothRgoY Canada’s ‘cultural genocide’ has been unearthed. The remains of 215 indigenous children have been found buried inside a former catholic school in British Columbia. Justin Trudeau has expressed ‘remorse’. But will that be enough?

Sri Lankan Canadian Action Coalition Inc JOINT STATEMENT: June 03 2021   We are pleased to announce that the following Sri Lankan-Canadian organizations have joined as a united front to fight a Superior court case against the Ontario law on Tamil Genocide Education Week.    Sri Lankan Canadian Action Coalition (SLCAC) Canadian Sri Lankan Center […]

අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මාධ්‍ය අංශය කොවිඩ් -19 වසංගත තත්ත්වය මත ප්‍රත්‍ය පහසුකම් නොලබන විහාරස්ථාන සහ ආගමික ස්ථාන සඳහා සංකේතාත්මකව ආධාර පාර්සල් බෙදාදීම ගරු අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් අද (03) දින පෙරවරුවේ අරලියගහ මන්දිරයේ දී පැවැත්විණි. සංචරණ සීමා පැනවීම හේතුවෙන් ප්‍රත්‍ය පහසුකම් නොලබන විහාරස්ථාන සහ අනෙකුත් ආගමික ස්ථාන වෙනුවෙන් බුද්ධශාසන, ආගමික හා සංස්කෘතික කටයුතු අමාත්‍යවරයා වශයෙන් ගරු […]

තිසර සමල් එප්පාවල  එන්නත්කරණ  වැඩපිළිවෙලට දේශපාලඥයෝ සම්බන්ධ වීම සම්බන්ධයෙන්  අපිටත්  විවේචනයක් තිබෙනවා,අපිත් ඒවා අනුමත කරන්නේ නෑ.සමහර කට්ටිය නූගත්කමට, නොදන්නා කමට එහෙමත් නැත්නම් ලකුණු දාගන්න කරන වැඩ වලින් ආණ්ඩුවක් විදිහට අපි අපහසුතාවකට පත් වෙනවා. ආණ්ඩුව වියදම් කරලා  නොමිලේ එන්නතත් ගහලා බැනුමත් අහගන්නවා.හරි අපරාධයක් ඒක.ඒවා අපි හෝ ජනාධිපතිතුමන් අනුමත කරන්නේ නෑ.ඒ නිසා සෞඛ්‍ය බළධාරීන් සෞඛ්‍ය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ගන්නා […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 3 (SLPA): A joint operation in coordinating with local authorities and the Indian Coast Guard to mitigate the impact of the possible environmental damage due to the fire on MV X-Press Pearl continued on June 3. Salvors and other officials have confirmed that the vessel’s aft portion is sitting on the […]

By Tang Lu, Jamila Najmuddin Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 3 (Xinhua): On June 2, hundreds of security personnel in COVID-19 protective clothing were busy removing tons of chemical pollutants and plastic from a beach in Colombo. About 9.5 nautical miles into the sea, they could see the charred remains of a foreign vessel swaying in […]

Press Release Courtesy USAID Wednesday, June 2, 2021 The U.S. Government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has airlifted emergency medical supplies to Maldives, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka to help save lives, stop the spread of COVID-19, and continue to meet the urgent health needs across South Asia. This new airlift follows three […]

UCA News reporter, Colombo Singapore-registered container ship has released chemical waste into the sea since catching fire on May 20 The Singapore-registered container ship MV X-Press Pearl, carrying hundreds of tonnes of chemicals and plastics, sinks after burning for almost two weeks just outside Colombo’s harbor on June 2. (Photo: AFP) Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has decided […]

By Easwaran Rutnam Courtesy The Daily Mirror @easwaranrutnam The United States has picked Sri Lanka, among other countries, to share 25 million coronavirus vaccines.  The White House said that the United States has received requests for vaccines from countries all over the world.    As a result, the US will share up to one-quarter of its donated […]

Courtesy Adaderana Britain added seven countries, including Egypt and Sri Lanka, to its red list” of destinations that require hotel quarantine on return to England on Thursday, in a review that also saw Portugal move from green” to amber”. Britain added seven countries — Afghanistan, Bahrain, Costa Rica, Egypt, Sri Lanka, Sudan and Trinidad and […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Director General of Health Services confirmed 42 more coronavirus related deaths, pushing the country’s death toll due to the virus to 1,608. Three of these deaths were reported today (03) while the remaining 39 were confirmed between may 11 and June 02, according to the Health Ministry.  It also revealed that 17 […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ministry of Health reported that another 642 persons have tested positive for coronavirus today (03), increasing the daily total of new Covid-19 cases to 3,264. All new cases reported today are associated with the New year Covid-19 cluster.  This brings the total cases count in the country thus far to 195,811. This […]