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The government is going to change the present Constitution in two steps, in line with President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s policy statement at the inaugural session of the Parliament on August 20. Accordingly, the government has already gazetted on Septe
The abiding feature of the indigenous constitution-making in Sri Lanka is personalism. Since the first Republican Constitution of1972, successive constitutions and endless amendments have been adopted to remodel the supreme law of
The former Government placed much focus on a political solution for the Tamils, fighting corruption and assuring justic
For the past 53 years (since the 1967, Israel-war, also referred to as the 1967 Arab-Israel War), Palestine has been under Israeli militarily occupation. In 2018, Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East Director at Human Rights....
“… One reason why voters choose to elect candidates with dubious reputations is due to the huge abyss between the aspirations of the people and what institutions can deliver “
If we speak in every language but do not have love or charity, we are like resounding gongs or clanging cymbals. If we have various talents and imaginative skills or fathom mysteries and all knowledge or even if we can move mountains, but do not have
The proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution which the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) government is going to pass in Parliament next month is nothing but another round of manifestation of uncultured politics in Sri Lanka. It is going to be a f
“To put it very simply, Sajith is not Mahinda.” (A man on the street) Sajith Premadasa’s decision to deliver his speech at the commencement of the ninth parliament in English gleaned mixed reactions from various crowds. Some argue that he was c
Ignorance of the law is no excuse. It must be stated at the outset of this article, that the knowledge of the law in relation to subjects coming under the purview of various officials, be they be attached to the Government, Provincial Administration
The Parliament has absolute sovereignty and is supreme over all government institutions, including executive and judicial bodies. Hence it is only just to send people with dignity and a sound education to serve as lawmakers.
Nineteen years ago today, a series of terror attacks shook the United States and with that the world changed. While fear-struck Americans were witnessing a massive attack on home soil for the first time....
The present regime is doing a lot to raise the country’s image, but not knowing the thin divide that separates what’s accepted and what’s not certainly won’t help this government.
Apparently for the first time since the presidential election on November 16, 2019, dissension has emerged among the members or the groups of the Government. That is on the content of the bill titled ‘20th Amendment to the Constitution’ which pri
The proliferation of narcotics, such as heroin, cocaine, cannabis, ecstasy and ice, in Sri Lanka, their widespread use and the subsequent addiction to one or the other of these intoxicants is only too well known.
I shall give Yasmin Sooka the benefit of the doubt. I’ll get to that presently. The back story is as follows: Yasmin Sooka and the outfit she leads, International Truth and Justice Project — Sri Lanka (ITJP-SL), through counsel,
The 10th of September is set apart by the United Nations as World Suicide Prevention Day (WSPD), in recognition of the increasing numbers of our brethren....
This indeed is an art. An art perfected for public consumption, fibbing and managing the financial bottom-line.
Sri Lanka is one of the success stories in the world in respect of containing COVID-19 threat. It is so successful that people have even totally forgotten the threat and now media rarely carry stories about the disease. However, does it mean
In several interviews after his recent appointment as Secretary to the Foreign Ministry, Adm. (Rtd.) Jayanath Colombage has sought to explain the newly-elected government’s thinking on matters of foreign policy. In these media interacti
The on-going conflict between China on the one hand and the “Free World” led by the US on the other over the South China Sea (SCS), is unlikely to end in the foreseeable future. China’s irredentist claims in the strategically located waterway
In the beginning of the month of March 2020, the news of former Army Staff Sergeant Sunil Rathnayake, who was convicted of the heinous Mirusuvil massacre, been granted a complete presidential pardon, especially at a time when S
The wealthy Attygalle sisters of Madapatha married DS Senanayake’s brother, Sir John Kotalawale’s father and JR Jayewardene’s uncle whose fortunes were closely...
On Thursday, the massive super oil tanker MT New Diamond, carrying 270,000 tons of crude oil and 1,700 MT of diesel.....
Economies around the world are in free fall with a great economic depression triggered by the COVID-19 disaster and prolonged capitalist crisis.
As the world grapples with the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, and starts to gradually prepare to deal with its long-term impacts, the very real threat of climate change – possibly the greatest threat that mankind faces -- did not disappear. Gov
In 1978 the then President J. R. Jayawardene used or abused the ruling United National Party’s 5/6th majority in parliament to impose the Executive Presidential System on the people of Sri Lanka. He took his oaths on February 4, 1978 as the first E
During an exclusive interview with one time Norwegian peace envoy to Sri Lanka Erik Solheim, which was published in last Wednesday’s Daily Mirror, senior journalist Easwaran Rutnam had posed a question whether.....
Greed is an uncontrollable unconscionable longing, urge as it were, to possess or even acquire material gain, wealth, possessions, power, clothing, food, even social status, and envy....
The COVID-19 pandemic is still haunting the school system and how kids interact with each other. This is despite the world health authorities having confirmed that children rarely develop severe symptoms of COVID-19.
Sri Lanka is being increasingly besieged by illegal drugs and attendant crimes such as terrorism, gun violence, gang warfare, extortion, burglaries, robberies and prostitution.
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