The South African Government has noted the release of the final report of the Sri Lankan Commission of Inquiry on Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation (the Commission of Enquiry) and the positive recommendations contained in the report relating to human rights, the return and resettlement of displaced communities, restitution and compensatory relief for the affected people, [...]
The British government has noted that there are some gaps in the final report of the Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) which was presented to parliament in December. The British High Commissioner to Sri Lanka John Rankin, in a video posting on the High Commission website, said that the LLRC left a number of [...]
Old boy ties By Vimukthi Yapa Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has acquired land belonging to the Kotte Municipal Council and is to present it to a leading school in Colombo, The Sunday Leader has learned. Kotte Municipal Council sources said that 3 acres of land worth Rs. 730 million has been acquired by the Urban [...]
By Dinouk Colombage Nearly ten years after initiating the HOPE Cancer Hospital project, Mahela Jayawardena and the Sri Lanka Cricketers Association have been forced to hand over the project to the Ministry of Health. Committee Chairman Mahesh Pasquel explained that they were forced to hand over the project due to their inability to raise the [...]
There was strong speculation last week that US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Robert O. Blake will visit Sri Lanka this month just prior to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions in Geneva where the US is expected to take a strong stand against Sri Lanka. Some Tamil newspapers [...]
By Dinouk Colombage Star cricketers, Kumar Sangakarra and Mahela Jayawardena’s new restaurant ‘Ministry of Crab’ has been found to be illegal. The Department of the Registrar of Companies said that ‘Ministry of Crab’ was initially registered as ‘The Crab Corporation’ but changed its name following the launch. Following a meeting with President Mahinda Rajapaksa on [...]
Queen Elizabeth II sent a short message to Sri Lanka to mark her 64th Independence Day celebrations yesterday. “It gives me great pleasure to send Your Excellency my congratulations on the celebration of your National Day, together with my best wishes for the happiness and prosperity of the Government and people of Sri Lanka in [...]
A group of British and Australian Parliamentarians have nominated the controversial Channel 4 video on Sri Lanka for the Nobel Peace Prize. British MP Siobhain McDonagh said in a statement yesterday that she and Australian Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon have made a joint submission to the Norwegian Nobel Committee nominating the team at ITN and [...]
By Easwaran Rutnam As the country celebrated 64 years of independence yesterday President Mahinda Rajapaksa assured that executive powers will not be used to act against public opinion. In an address to the nation from the Independence Day celebrations at Anuradhapura, the President warned that attempts are being made by some groups to destabilize the [...]
Maintaining that she was working towards protecting the livelihood of fishermen, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa on Friday said she would not “stop” till Kachchatheevu, an islet in the Palk Straits now under the control of Sri Lanka is retrieved. “The attacks on Tamil fishermen by the Sri Lankan Navy can be stopped only by [...]
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