AG writes off Rs. 525 million By Faraz Shauketaly In an astonishing turn of events, the Attorney General’s Department has advised the Director General of Customs, that they will withdraw from a case involving the collection of Customs duties and levies from Colombo Dockyard PLC – a case where over Rs. 525 million of public [...]
High Drama At Sri Lanka’s Mission To The United Nations in New York By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema Sri Lanka’s Mission to the United Nations in New York, which is now faced with the Herculean task of playing diplomacy with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and his panel of experts, is otherwise occupied with staff members leveling [...]
Widespread Rigging Mars Opinion Poll By Faraz Shauketaly The Sunday Leader SMS/EMAIL poll of your preference for the next leader of the United National Party caused unprecedented interest – both from our readers and from the coterie of interested factions within the United National Party. Our poll, advertised and begun last Sunday, June 27th, when publishing the profiles [...]
Inland Revenue claims Rs 2.8 million from directors Employed director faces music on his own Ranil Wickremesinghe appointed new board By Faraz Shauketaly The printing company set up by President Ranasinghe Premadasa for the United National Party (UNP) did not pay its dues to the Inland Revenue and the directors have now been noticed to [...]
Ranil Silent On Hussein Allegations Sauce For The Goose Is Sauce For The Gander By Faraz Shauketaly The former chairman of Sri Lanka’s oldest political party, Malik Samarawickrama, has confirmed that he did not transfer monies received by him from Sabir Hussein, to the UNP. Instead he told The Sunday Leader Editor, Frederica Jansz, that [...]
By Faraz Shauketaly As the battle in the United National Party (UNP) for a change of leadership intensified, allegations emerged that hundreds of millions of rupees have been ‘donated’ to Party Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe over the years. Wickremesinghe has kept silent on these allegations and has got away with not answering since there have not [...]
United We Stand By Nirmala Kannangara Startling revelations have surfaced that new Transport Deputy Minister Rohana Dissanayake has misled the Urban Development Authority (UDA) in order to obtain 15 perches of UDA land for his wife in Battaramulla on a 30-year lease, while serving as the Non Cabinet Minister for Urban Development. L.R. M. Abeysinghe, [...]
By Frederica Jansz Mervyn Silva is the quintessential coward. Your typical classroom bully. A thug, patronising with ease members of the underworld, drug dealers and gold smugglers. Of average intellect, the thuggish Silva — a product of Mahinda Rajapaksa — was quick to assess that his inbred qualities of crass, crude displays of verbose abuse [...]
By Michael Hardy The Sunday Leader has uncovered a shocking new example of the West’s contempt for Buddhist culture and values. On two recent episodes of the popular American television show South Park, the Lord Buddha is depicted as a drug addict, graphically snorting several lines of cocaine. When contacted by The Sunday Leader, Ministry [...]
By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema The recent spate of elections – the presidential and general elections – has revealed that former Marxist ‘revolutionary’ and self proclaimed patriot, Wimal Weerawansa does not have a vote either in his constituency, the Colombo District or in any other part of the island. National Freedom Front (NFF) Leader Weerawansa was [...]
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