Steady increase in Cost of Living By Camelia Nathaniel Private and Public sector employees are disgruntled with not receiving their long due Cost of Living payment when they are facing the sky-rocketing cost of living. Due to the government’s failure to gazette the Cost of Living Index new value, many employers calculate the cost of [...]
Looking at legal action on the Matale mass grave We will not stop until justice is served – Anura By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema The JVP has vowed to continue to demand justice for the comrades killed en masse in Matale during the insurgency in the 1988-1989 period. Following the discovery of the mass grave in [...]
By Easwaran Rutnam While the Commonwealth Secretariat insists that no foreign government has formally requested that the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) scheduled to be held in Sri Lanka this year be shifted out over human rights concerns, a last minute push is now underway with parties urging their governments to make that move [...]
Disregard For Environmentalists’ Warning Nosedives By Nirmala Kannangara The Aviation Ministry’s failure to heed the warnings issued by the environmentalists over the birds’ movement in Mattala airstrip has now become a great threat for air travel, environmentalists claim. Following the second accident faced by SriLankan Airline flight – UL 114 on its way from Male [...]
By Nirmala Kannangara Eastern Provincial Council Chairman Ariyawathie Galappaththi is accused of threatening a Senior Environmental Officer in Kantale in order to obtain illegal quarry licenses in the Kantale forest reserve and Naval Headwork Sanctuary in the Trincomalee district. Galappaththi has threatened Jayalath Balasooriya – a Senior Environmental Officer attached to the Central Environment Authority [...]
Holcim Lanka violated Exchange Control rules with impunity UNP Financier Yasasiri called the shots with Holcim By Faraz Shauketaly One of the larger corporate takeover transactions in Sri Lanka was more remarkable for the way in which the foreign company paid significant sums out of Sri Lanka, in contravention of the exchange control rules at [...]
Death Looms Over North Central, Eastern, Wayamba, Ruhuna and Uva Provinces By Camelia Nathaniel Although the Health Ministry denies that the Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) slowly killing thousands in the North Central, Eastern, Wayamba, Ruhuna and Uva Provinces is due to pesticides and fertilisers containing arsenic being used for agriculture, studies now confirm that the [...]
Confiscation of Containers allegedly carrying Ethanol Sprits By Nirmala Kannangara The controversy that surrounded the confiscation of two containers that had allegedly carried ethanol sprits, by the Excise Department in Peliyagoda, has now taken a new twist. The containers were said to have been transporting thinner, but the Excise Department claims the contents in the [...]
By Nirmala Kannangara - Pictures by Lalith Perera Questions have been raised regarding the Department of Wildlife Conservation’s failure to take legal action against the Management of Water’s Edge at Battaramulla for keeping deer and sambur in their premises. According to the Fauna and Flora Protection Ordinance (FFPO) section 30, sub section 2, sambur is a [...]
By Easwaran Rutnam - Pictures by Saman Kariyawasam The quote “Justice delayed is justice denied” is very near to the family of British national Khuram Shaikh after he was killed in Tangalle on Christmas Day 14 months ago. Words and more words is all Shaikh’s family has heard from the Sri Lankan authorities promising justice and [...]
