By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema The JHU maintains that people in the North and East have to be given democracy and basic needs before speaking of power devolution that has been pushed by some Tamil political leaders. After resolving the recent crisis at the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB), JHU General Secretary and Power and Energy Minister [...]
By Ravi Perera Far, we’ve been travelling far, without a home, but not without a star, Free, only want to be free, we huddle close, hang on to a dream, On the boats, on the planes, they are coming to America Never looking back again, they are coming to America, Home, to a new shiny [...]
By Faraz Shauketaly The controversial Head of Sri Lanka’s Board of Investment (BOI) Jayampathi Bandaranayka has informed senior colleagues that he will be stepping down at the end of June. The embattled BOI Chief has also notified the Treasury Secretary Dr. P.B. Jayasundera – who is also the Secretary of the Economic Development Ministry – [...]
87th Birth Anniversary of President Ranasinghe Premadasa By Tisaranee Gunasekara “This disposition to admire, and almost worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despise, or at least, to neglect, persons of poor and mean condition…is the great and most universal cause of corruption of our moral sentiments.” Adam Smith (The Theory of Moral Sentiments) [...]
By Hishan Welmilla 12 Sri Lankan athletes will be competing at the 19th Asian Athletics Championship to be held in Kobe, Japan. The competition is scheduled to get underway from July 7-10. The Sri Lankan contingent will comprise of 8 male and 4 female athletes and will compete in 8 individual events and also take [...]
Aye, aye!! Japan’s Pee-Em did a most noble deed this week. Na-Oto Kan told the world he will not be taking a salary for his Prime Ministering duties. Pause for a collective gasp of amazement. Why? Because Kan felt the Governing types were responsible for the new clear accident at Fu Ku Shee Ma. We [...]
By Raisa Wickrematunge Number 82, Barnes Place is a spacious, recently renovated old house. It’s not just any house, though. This building holds four different wining and dining experiences under one roof. Chethika Karunaratne loves food, and has always wanted to own a restaurant. Number 82 is her brainchild- her ‘baby’ as she calls it. [...]
Some say it is authentic: they bring in four forensic experts with internationally accepted credentials to verify it. Others rubbish it and bring in one ‘expert’ whose credentials are not very clear. The internationals, who don’t have a very good track record of human rights, say ‘investigate’ and the nationals say ‘bunkum.’ In fact, the [...]
There was not much revealed by either party, of the detailed discussions that took place between the Indian delegation that visited Sri Lanka and the government of Mahinda Rajapaksa. It was a considered decision to keep the outcome of the talks away from the media. Foreign Secretary of India Nirupama Rao, National Security Adviser Shiv [...]
Titus J: Solitary Man with power to spend US$ 500 Million alone By Faraz Shauketaly In an astonishing revelation, Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum Industries, Titus Jayawardena, has signed off on an order for the supply of Gas Oil which has a staggering price tag of US$ 500 Million. It could well be the single largest [...]
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