Defending Sri Lanka’s Hedging Deal By Ashwin Hemmathagama - Parliament Correspondent Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) has spent Rs.13 million for air tickets and accommodation for the local participants engaged in the defence against the arbitration and legal proceedings that took place in Singapore and the United Kingdom. The cases were filed by Citi Bank and [...]
Professionals stressed the importance of attracting foreign direct investment (FDI) into the country to usher in much needed development and also to help in foreign debt servicing and to take away pressure on interest rates. Former Central Bank of Sri Lanka Director Statistics Dr. (Mrs.) Anila Dias Bandaranaike speaking at a CIMA sponsored budget seminar [...]
By Tisaranee Gunasekara Don’t the people have the right to speak of anything taking place illegally?” Gen. Sarath Fonseka (Post-verdict statement in the White Flag case) President Mahinda Rajapaksa takes umbrage at the strangest things. He once vented outrage at a Sinhala song, titled, ‘The people of that country are running crazy’. Such songs, the [...]
By Ranee Mohamed The matron of Prem Nivasa, a children’s home in Moratuwa which is embroiled in a controversy over the alleged sale of children was arrested Friday night (Nov 25) by a team of police officials. The matron, a missionary of Indian origin was produced before a Magistrate and was later remanded. Police on [...]
A signature campaign was held last week by the ‘Peoples Movement to Free Sarath Fonseka’ at the Public Library in Colombo. Several people, including opposition politicians, placed their signatures on a massive poster seeking Fonseka’s release. Picture by Asoka Fernando
Debate on the the 2nd complete UPFA budget since the conclusion of the war in 2009 May, is now on both within the parliament and without. Heavy weights both critical and positive about this budget, have access to media. The debate is about urban middle class life and the Western Province economy. Not much is [...]
CMC to discuss evacuation By Indika Sri Aravinda The Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) is to evacuate over 400 families who are living above an oil pipeline located between the Colombo port and the Kollonawa oil refinery. The move follows concerns for their safety in the eventuality of a fire breaking out within the pipeline, which [...]
The world today is facing a radically new and unprecedented situation which demands political wisdom and a responsible approach towards work, an envoy said: Thomas F. Daetwyler, Latvia’s Honorary Consul General in Sri Lanka speaking at a function held recently in Colombo to fete Latvia’s National Day further said: “We are living in an age [...]
IGP speaking on rotten eggs in the police force By Imaad Majeed and Gazala Anver – Pictures by Gazala Anver As a follow up to the recent escalation of police atrocities, The Sunday Leader this week travelled down to Kalutara to visit the Sri Lanka Police College (SLPC) to get to the root of the [...]
Sarath Fonseka was found guilty on the first charge in an indictment filed in the High Court of Colombo, consequent to an article carried in The Sunday Leader on December 13 2009 - front page under the caption “Gota Ordered Them To Be Shot - Gen. Sarath Fonseka.” The case was heard at a Trial-at-Bar before [...]
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