By Ranee Mohamed – Pictures by Asoka Fernando The couple from America who were waiting for their turn at the Children’s Home in Rawatawatte were not at fault. They wanted a baby with all their heart and they had gone through the correct process to get a child by contacting a ‘licenced adoption agency.’ They [...]
Popular retailer fined Rs. 3.3 million for false declaration By Faraz Shauketaly The popular discounted fashion retailer “House of Fashions” is at the centre of a battle of influence between officials from the Treasury and Customs. Two containers destined for House of Fashions (Pvt) Limited were detained by Customs and found to have broken a [...]
Sri Lanka’s Drug Menace By Imaad Majeed and Gazala Anver – Pictures by Gazala Anver It is an overcast day. We were seated at the back of a trishaw, parked on the side of a street. A gentle breeze blows past the trees along the canal. The murky water moves like sludge as drawn, dazed [...]
The breakdown of law and order in Sri Lanka By Raisa Wickrematunge For the past few weeks, there have been allegations of police brutality in Dompe and Moratuwa, where suspects died while in police custody. According to official reports, one jumped off a moving police vehicle, while the other drowned in the Bolgoda Lake in [...]
Lasantha Wickrematunge Murder Investigation By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history,” US President Barrack Obama during his inauguration speech in 2009. Over two and a half years later, the murder investigation on The [...]
Maha Oya Tragedy By Dileesha Abeysundera Reporting FromRatnapura and KadawathaA murder and a suicide led to the tragic deaths of two STF officers on Tuesday, September 27. Sadly, as a result of the circumstances of how they died, the funerals of the two officers took place in stark contrast to each other, while both families [...]
By Nirmala Kannangara Ceylinco, a name now synonymous with infamy as a result of fraud in the region of billions of rupees, has now come under severe criticism for cheating the sick. This time it is the Ceylinco Diabetes Center (CDC) that has come under the spotlight. Although its motto is ‘we prevent we care’ [...]
By Maryam Azwer in Matara -Photos by Lalith Perera …then imagine the victim being a ten year old girl. Imagine it happening to her in broad daylight, on school premises, where two police officers, a security guard and several exam officials were also present – all of whom were drunk. Drunk men, who invited an [...]
Terror spreads like greased lightning By Abdul H. Azeez – in Puttalam and Kalpitiya When Pakeer Thambi Kalladi Picchai (62) first heard about grease yakkas he thought it was a lie. But on Friday August 19 he went through an experience that left no doubts in his mind about the reality of their existence. Picchai [...]
By Abdul H. Azeez – in Arugam Bay/Pottuvil The Grease Devils or grease yakas’ hold on the public imagination is reaching epic levels. Mass paranoia, fear and outrage have broken out in the Trincomalee, Batticaloa and Ampara districts with the public taking the law into their own hands. Some blame law enforcement officials for not taking [...]
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