The voice of the people – however it manifests itself – will eventually be heard By Faraz Shauketaly Harold MacMillan was perhaps the first world leader to give prominence to the global political change way back in 1960 when he signalled the British governments’ determination to grant independence to its colonies and permit free men [...]
If patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, democracy is the first,” David Uren President Mahinda Rajapaksa with an entourage of one hundred and eight arrived in Perth, Australia to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM). This time the CHOGM centered on Sri Lanka and President Mahinda Rajapaksa, as the 54 countries had [...]
Sri Lanka Design Festival (SLDF) 2011 is conceptualised by Academy of Design (AOD), Sri Lanka’s (SL’s) leading design campus. AOD organizes the festival in association with industry leaders and the government and will be held at Mount Lavinia Hotel next month (November). The event is to take place under the theme “Close-up on Sri Lanka,” [...]
Lakthilaka And Pathirana Yet To Receive Charge Sheets By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema UNP Western Provincial Councilor Shiral Lakthilaka, who is to face a disciplinary inquiry with UNP parliamentarian Buddhika Pathirana following a Working Committee decision, says that legal action would be taken against the move to hold a disciplinary inquiry against him. Lakthilaka told The [...]
Language functions as a primary and powerful means of creating and establishing personal and group identities. Individuals and groups are identified by the language they are born into and the language they thus speak. This identity is attached to individuals and begins to function from the time of birth and till death. No one can [...]
Unions Call For Inquiry Labor Minister Says No Problem By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema Trade unions have called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa to carry out an independent inquiry into the billions of rupees lost by the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) after investing in the Colombo Stock Exchange (CSE). The Inter Company Employees Union (ICEU) said the [...]
The retailer driven bourse made gains at Friday trading on the strength of penny stocks, recording a low Rs. 533.2 million turnover. The alleged manipulators who previously drove up the bourse were absent the whole of last week except on Monday, that’s the reason for the low turnover levels witnessed by the bourse these days, [...]
By Tisaranee Gunasekara If they harm me, it is the country they harm,” Gotabhaya Rajapaksa – (Daily Mirror – Hard Talk) A despot sees himself not as the First Citizen in a country of peers but as the Patriarch of an infantile-nation. He thereby arrogates unto himself the triple-roles of traditional-fatherhood, becoming, at least in [...]
By Dinouk Colombage The Sri Jayewardenepura Hospital continues to remain in the news for all the wrong reasons with new allegations emerging surrounding the administration and the doctors of the establishment. The Director and Deputy-Director have both been accused of being improperly hired, while consultants have been caught giving priority to their private practice over [...]
By G S De Silva Where indeed are we heading? When we speak of Sri Lanka, we should be speaking of one nation but sadly we are so fractious that one wonders as to who or what we mean. Besides being divided on the basis of ethnicity and language we have also the caste and religious [...]
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