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Mon, 28 Oct 2024 Today's Paper
There was a good response to our article on the plight of the Tea Industry. We are also glad that at the Annual General Meeting of the Tea Traders Association....
Today is the United Nations International Day of Cooperatives, and the oncoming year’s theme is “sustainable societies through cooperation.” In a statement, the UN says that at a time when income inequality is rising around the worl
At last week’s European summit, the leaders spent most of the time discussing immigration restrictions. Yet, the Syrian rush through the Mediterraneanis now a trickle. The African migration is down by 95%.
It is reported in the press that notwithstanding a difference of opinion that has arisen at a party leaders’ meeting regarding the forthcoming Provincial Council (PC) elections, it has been decided to revert to the ‘Preference Voting&rsqu
Sallitivu Islet, significant for rich biodiversity, is located in the Batticaloa district in the Eastern province of Sri Lanka. It is approximately 275 metres in length and 155 metres wide and is seasonally connected to
The Sri Lanka chapter of the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA) is very concerned about the targeting by politicians of two Sri Lankan journalists involved in internationally reporting on Sri Lankan issues published recently in the New York T
State Minister of Child Affairs Vijeyakala Maheswaran, who stirred controversy by making a statement about the need for an organisation like the LTTE, has not denied the fact that the Tamil people were free when the terrorist outfit operated in the n
2015 and 2016, years of optimism, hope, and a little growth, have been followed by 2017 and 2018, years of cynicism, darkness, and not a little regression.
In the South they want a Hitler and Notherners want LTTE back! If this goes like this both will surely get leaders they deserve. The truth is that a large majority does not want Hitlers or Prabhakarans back. Both Ven.
First, the New York Times helped the Government, especially, the United National Party (UNP), the main party in the Government to divert the people’s attention from the Opposition’s criticism on economic problems to an alleged huge fraud
On May 31st this year, at a solemn ceremony in Hawaii, the United States military renamed its Pacific Command as the “Indo-Pacific Command”. The move, though significant in many respects, has not generated as much debate as it should have
We have had very healthy debates in the past and ended up late in the day in high spirits. We’ve wrestled with very many issues often with disagreements and learnt more than we thought we knew.
The recent story by New York Times that China Harbour Engineering Company financed the 2015 election campaign of ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa has caused ripples in politics. That they are only ripples and not tidal waves may imply a degree of pol
No sooner had the political debate generated by the New York Times article regarding campaign financing of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa died down than State Minister of Child Affairs Vijayakala Maheswaran threw a bombshell in Jaffna on Monday
With the Untied States yesterday celebrating or possibly commemorating the 241st anniversary of its independence at a time when the dangerously unpredictable President Donald Trump appears to show a liking for dictators in countries such as Russia,
Yahapalanists, i.e. those advocating yahapalanaya or good governance, as per their own articulation of the term, are for equality, justice, truth, transparency, accountability and other such lovely things. Again, as per their rhetoric, they abhor i
Elections Commission Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya has reportedly been pressing the government to hold elections to provincial councils that already stand dissolved due to the expiration of their terms.
As I said in my last article, the things that are happening around us today could justifiably be classified as ‘Man’s Inhumanity to Man’!!! Though this disaster does not seem to impact our financial situation, it does impact our liv
“Arbitrary power is the natural object of temptation to a Prince, as wine and women to a young fellow, or a bribe to a judge, or avarice to old age...”~Jonathan Swift
‘Every Picture Tells a Story’ was the title of the best Rod Stewart album. The landmark Viyath Maga event at the Shangri-La Hotel opened with the image in the very first slide, which showed Gotabaya Rajapaksa with only one other person in
Russia’s victory over 2010 world champion Spain on Sunday was only icing on the cake for Russian leader Vladimir Putin. With the much-hyped Donald Trump and Putin meeting now scheduled for July 16 in Helsinki, the day after the curtain closer o
The opposition parties in the Maldives are rallying round Ibrahim Mohamed Solih alias “Ibu,” who was elected last Saturday as the candidate of the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) for the September 23 Presidential election.
There was a boy once. He loved to read. He also loved to write. He loved languages and the study of languages, right down to music, literature, indeed the arts in general. But he had chosen Science for
This essay is an effort to unravel the whispers about an American military team’s secret mission to Sri Lanka at the height of the SL armed forces successful squeeze on the LTTE in 2009.
The media are often described as the watchdog of freedom, and many journalists all over the world have lived up to the high moral values and standards....
Small scale fishery community leaders from Jaffna, Kilinochchi and Mannar held a press conference in Jaffna last week (Wednesday) in response to news....
The debate between the power regulator Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) and the powerful Engineers Union of the power monopoly CEB on power generation....
After almost four decades of liberalisation around the world, economic development continues to fail. These failures have been characterised by increased national debt...
There has been a growing concern about the deterioration of the professional standards of the legal community in many countries.
Last Friday, the Coalition Government launched one of its most enterprising schemes which it believes will be the centrepiece or showpiece of its sustainable, eco-friendly development strategy for the coming months and hopefully years.
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