Whilst in my earlier blog article I was castigating the President for a hasty decision to ban safari camps without notice, Sajith in Parliament seems to commend the President for this act, without looking at the whole issue more closely, and the underlying reasons for such action.I suggested they look into the whole aspect of safaris and what is and ...
The article I have inserted here which is too long to be included here, but hugely embarrassing for a self respecting country if true, must require a response from the Govt. If not it means that the Govt. is now resorting to unsubstantiated allegations that the Secretary of the Judicial Services Commission was attacked by persons at the behest of ...
In my previous blog entry I called for the resignation of the Chief Justice on the grounds that she finds her position untenable. There is however another side of the story. Supposing her husband is innocent, and he is used as a scapegoat for the wrongs of more weighty personalities, then should she resign knowing full well this is a ...
We are the only country on the face of the Earth where its Cabinet Ministers pat themselves in the back for increasing Public Service Employment. In this case since the Govt. took over from the Ranil Wickremasinghe Govt in 2004, they have increased the non forces, public service carder from 800K which RW had reduced it to, to balance the ...
A front page of a paper yesterday clearly stated that the President offered the services of his personal physician to Hugo Chavez who was recovering in a Cuban hospital after undergoing treatment for Cancer. This was not a joke, but a very serious statement made in all honesty!!You must be kidding!! We know that this person is a Charlatan, and ...
Sunanda Madduma Bandara – Director General (Development and Communication) in the Ministry of Economic Development. He, therefore is a mouthpiece for Basil Rajapakse, his Minister as well of course for the Government. In today’s (Nov23rd) Lankadeepa Sinhala Newspaper (the paper with the highest daily circulation in Sri Lanka) Sunanda Madduma Bandara writes without disclosing his affiliation to the Government about ...
The Supreme Court decision last evening, in a 3 judge panel, obviously excluding the CJ (I think it should have been by a larger panel of at least 7)pleaded for more time in determining the constitutional interpretation of Article 107(3) of the Sri Lanka Constitution, relating to the procedure of impeachment against a judge. That is fair considering the weighty ...
The recent attack on University Students in Jaffna, by the Army is regretted and the GOSL must tender an apology to the students and release the 4 people still held for questioning as they must either be charged or released.This kind of bombastic behavior by Army personnel in the North gives all the ammunition needed for people outside the country ...
Three minor officials in the state and defense department of the US are in Sri Lanka to check the progress of our implementation of the LLRC recommendations before the next UNHRC meeting, so that they can report to their Govt. which will through their Ambassador in the UN deliver their judgment in sessions beginning at the end of February. The ...
In a recent article Dayan Jayatilleka, most recently our envoy in Paris see link:http://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/ethno-religious-fascism-and-the-r2p-trap-the-scenario/The gist of his article was the rise of the BBS the ethno religious group, which is bent on showing the rest of the world what a fundamentalist view of the rights of Buddhists in Sri Lanka is. That further cements (unfairly) world opinion on the supposed ...
Has anyone considered why it is that fringe or other religions survive, thrive and in fact appeal to the local people? It is a normal process, where the simple weight of the established religion (inertia) gets people thinking about the wrongs rather than the rights, giving the purveyors of other religions a perfect opportunity to convince the doubters that another ...
I was very perturbed when I in a Sinhala newspaper that the Secretary of the Government veterinarians association stated that they had NOT seen any improvement in Milk Production either by technology or improving quality in the past 10 years despite the apparent emphasis on making this Country self sufficient in Milk Production or at least 50% sufficient!They maintain that ...
The UNP Leader stamped his authority in no uncertain terms on the proceedings at their 54th Convention on 1st December 2012, at the Party’s Headquarters at Sirikotha.In an unusual turn of events, everything happened before time and even the proceedings finished well before time, if not for the insistence of Ravi Karunanayake who had brought his cheering squad, and wanted ...
If you happen to live in Sri Lanka and was your fault for receiving every Newpaper published on the above dates, one would have counted, 400 full page equivalents in advertising, of which 35% had a full page of HE the President. They were celebrating either the President’s 66th birthday which fell on the 18th or the beginning of the ...
Surprise, surprise, we now have the 18th Amendment and it seems the 13this still to be implemented. What does that tell the person with some common sense? Simply that Sri Lanka’s constitution is meaningless, a sham and a joke, as some amendments are implemented, some aspects of the Constitution are blatantly and flagrantly violated by the Government, and others are ...
Fellow citizens no one is safe from injustice in Sri Lanka today. Even the most ardent supporters of the President today, may find themselves unable to seek justice tomorrow. So don’t feel secure by the thought that you because of your wealth or connections, you are immune from today’s system of justice. You simply are not safe. Many of those ...
It should not be a moment of rejoicing, but when despots in Office bite the dust such as Saddam Hussein, Ghadaffi and now Chavez and possibly soon Assad, it forewarns of that which is natural. Change is inevitable.Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, and there is nowhere for them to hide from what they have done to their countries. ...
Sensible people – here is another example of the senseless use of the media for personal gain. I reported in yesterday blog entry about 6 leaders of the opposition in various Anuradhapura District’s Pradeshiya Sabhas having defected to the Government side. Yes they were Leaders of the Opposition, but they had defected over 2 years ago!!!So for the media, and ...
A slap for local news service providers, compulsory registration, a charge of Rs100k and annual fee of Rs50k imposed on news websites. The govt. must realize that web sites emanate from everywhere. To charge local ones is against all civilized norms. No country on earth does this. Whatever methods used to bar foreign sites, the users of the internet can ...
In the typical fashion of how things are done in this Country, when one is the injured party and he reprimands those who injured him, they in turn throw the book at him.This is exactly what happened to Mahela Jayawardena this past week. It is totally unacceptable to be threatened and bullied in this way.Written into the players and manager’s ...