State loses billions of Rupees By Nirmala Kannangara Credible evidence has now emerged to reveal that Chairman of Vehicles Lanka (Pvt) Ltd Harsha de Silva has misrepresented facts of a Supreme Court ruling to the Controller Imports and Exports to obtain an import license. In a letter dated October 10, 2012 to the Controller of [...]
Whose responsibility was it anyway? By Camelia Nathaniel While the Fisheries Department and the Meteorology Department keep palming off the blame of failing to inform the fishing folk of the impending dangerous weather condition that prevailed over Sri Lanka over the last weekend, the death toll of the fishermen that ventured off to sea that [...]
By S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole I fled Sri Lanka first under LTTE death threats in March 2006 and a second time in August 2011 after detailing election malpractices in Pitfalls in the President’s Alliance with the EPDP – A Visit to Kayts on Elections Day (The Sunday Leader 24.07.2011). If I had been untruthful, the [...]
By Easwaran Rutnam In journalism there is a popular quote which states that “the pen is mightier than the sword”. In other words it means that, as far as the media is concerned, journalists can make a change through what they write. However now there are fears the government maybe attempting to stifle that freedom [...]
Leader Expose On Illegal Gem Mining By Nirmala Kannangara Following last week’s The Sunday Leader expose on illegal gem mining licences issued by the National Gem and Jewellery Authority to ineligible parties with political affiliations, Environment and Renewable Energy Minister Susil Premjayantha has ordered a full scale investigation into the allegations. Under the headline ‘Gems [...]
By Vijitha Herath MP The rules or standards governing the conduct of a person or the members of a profession are called ethics. Some say that ethics are referred concepts that decide right and wrong. All this point out that ethics is a criterion that decides a person’s conduct. Ethics are framed according to religious [...]
By Dr Jehan Perera The seventh edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI), which ranks nations according to their level of peace should ring an alarm bell to Sri Lankans. Four years after the end of the war, and the complete eradication of terrorism in a manner seldom seen in the world, it only ranked [...]
Govt fails to uphold pledge By Nadine Mariah The shortage of subsidized fertilizer has caused immense problems to the farmers, the All Ceylon Farmers’ Association claimed. Farmers note that they have not been provided with the subsidized fertilizers promised by the government. Although the issue has been continuously brought to the attention of the Ministry [...]
By N. Sathiya Moorthy If there is something that stands out on the government’s decision to legislate now (only) on withdrawing the President’s powers on the merger of two or more provinces is an object lesson in coalition politics. Some of the coalition partners, including those of Northern Tamils and Muslims, have thwarted the simultaneous [...]
By Camelia Nathaniel The country’s rising inflation rate has dealt a devastating blow to the average family while it is struggling to keep up with the sharp increases in prices, especially the increase in electricity tariffs. The recent increase in electricity tariffs has accounted for an increase of 1.96 percent in the monthly expenditure of [...]
