The 18th Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Free Media Movement (FMM) was held on May 25, 2010 at the Auditorium of the Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI). The decisions made at the AGM included the course of action upon completion of the investigation into the allegations of misappropriation of funds of the FMM and [...]
Chairperson, Swarnamahal Financial Services, Dr. (Mrs) Soma Edirisinghe declared open a new branch of the company in Nugegoda recently. She noted that Swarnamahal Financial Services commenced its operations in Nugegoda in the year 2007 and in order to provide better facilities to their customers, it became necessary to re-locate to a more prominent and convenient [...]
By Nirmala Kannangara In order to ease the congestion in prisons, new legislation is to be brought in to release prisoners over 60 years of age who are serving jail terms for minor offenses, Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms Minister D.E.W Gunasekera said. Minister Gunasekera told The Sunday Leader that he has called for a report on prisoners over 60 years [...]
A change of tune? So a Hambantota type from the Green Team was holding a meeting when he spoke of a revolution of leadership. In true Che Guevara style he said this revolution would bring victory to the suffering masses, and answer their questions. Even more interestingly, he said the revolution would bring the party [...]
Deputy Highways Minister Mervyn Silva responds to the Chief Incumbent of the Bellanthota Siri Sadaham Ashramaya, Ven. Pitiduwe Siridhamma Thero’s request for a new access road to be built for the temple. Silva has promised to build the road soon after the conclusion of the Vesak celebrations. — Photo by Asoka Fernando
In matured parliamentary democracies when a political party is routed at an election, the convention is that the party leader and his advisors resign from their offices, leaving the party to fill up the vacancies created. The latest such example is the resignation of the British Labour Party Leader Gordon Brown after the last general [...]
The Rajapaksa government has, according to the Daily Mirror of Tuesday, May 18th, decided to appoint an eight-member Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, “to probe what happened between February 2002 and May 2009 (and) …whether any persons, groups or institutions directly or indirectly were responsible for what happened during the period and to recommend measures [...]
Civil rights activists led by a NGO – NAAM, have urged the Union Government to impress upon Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, due to visit India on June 8, the imperative of constituting an Indo-Sri Lankan joint mechanism for meaningful rebuilding of lives of Sri Lankan Tamils, reported The Hindu on Friday, May 28. The [...]
The extended Wesak holiday had its effect on Paththarakaraya hence the philosophical mood. We were just thinking that there was not a day that passes in this most resplendent island where some commemoration or the other is being held. Everyday, one glance at the newspapers or TV news will show someone or something being commemorated [...]
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