The hastily prepared Bill to expropriate 37 legal entities has been somewhat endorsed by the body representing all employers in Sri Lanka. They have only requested that the two Sugar companies be excluded, but they being the most controversial are the ones that the President for reasons unclear refuses to budge on. The only grace at Saturday’s meeting was ...
While it is clear to a section of the global thinking people how absurd all the statements made on behalf of the Government, many contradicting one another were at this UNHRC meeting and prior ones, it seems to be completely lost on the cast of jokers who purport to represent the interests of the Government.They have no clue what position ...
The die-hard breakaway FSP is a thorn in the backside of the State. First it was the abductions by the state apparatus of two in Jaffna (their whereabouts are still unknown), and then there was the two in the South (Kumaran and Dimuthu), just prior to the convention, which when considering the nature of the outfit drew a substantial following. ...
When I tell people the last King of the Kandyan Kingdom was a Tamil, they don’t believe it. When I further state that one of the main languages of the Court was also Tamil, they tell me to get out of here, and so we have bred some dastardly bastards who claim to be Kandyan but have no clue about ...
I don’t know if his luck and good fortune has finally run out, but Mahinda Rajapakse seems to be on a losing streak with one disaster after another and with all of them he appears to be implicated. Worse still he is completely ignoring the growing pressure which has now been exerted on his Ministers, but he believes by ignoring ...
Actually if the BBS have their way, they will encourage both the fundamentalists in the Shia and Sunni aligned Sri Lankan Muslims to send their sons and daughters to Iraq either to fight to defend the Shia Govt. or to fight with ISIS Sunnis, so that the fundamentalist fringe that is small but resurgent in Sri Lanka, can destroy each ...
Don’t we ever learn? Why is our disaster response to a manageable disaster chaos!Let’s get a grip on the rational need for common sense without making it a political statement. Whys is the GOSL making political capital out of people's suffering?It was most shameful, and shameless of the President who turns up at the disaster zone and begins making utterances ...
It is extremely distasteful to say the least that the BBS engages in behavior that is downright libelous and use their platform to sling mud at others with impunity.http://www.dailymirror.lk/news/50652-bbs-to-go-to-bribery-comm-against-rajitha.htmlAs the link above shows their latest target is Rajitha Senaratne the Kalutara District MP and Minister of Fisheries. This is because he spoke out against the BBS actions in Aluthgama, as ...
Just when the country was demanding redress and fair play from the onerous battles of existence and price spirals, there was the Sarath Fonseka, remission of sentence to take the wind from our sails. That calculated political gambit, has succeeded, albeit temporarily to take the minds off our easily aroused public, courtesy of the insatiable appetite of the media for ...
Do you remember the death of Roshen Chanaka and the public outcry, which forced the government to withdraw the Private Pension Bill from Parliament? What must we do to safeguard our country to force the government again to withdraw the latest Expropriation Bill for want of a lack of clarity of purpose?A former Chief Justice has ruled it unconstitutional ...
Who are you going to give to cultivate?Frankly I am very surprised and disappointed at the asinine comments made by President Sirisena in an unnecessarily extravagant event in Iranamadu yesterday.http://www.dailymirror.lk/90059/ion-opens-in-northhttp://www.ada.lk/article/109725/%E0%B7%80%E0%B6%9C%E0%B7%8F-%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%9C%E0%B6%9A%E0%B7%85-%E0%B6%89%E0%B6%A9%E0%B6%B8%E0%B7%8A-%E0%B6%BB%E0%B6%A2%E0%B6%BA%E0%B6%A7-%E0%B6%9C%E0%B6%B1%E0%B7%92%E0%B6%BA%E0%B7%92First, let me comment on the word extravagant. I
It is a great source of amusement amongst UNP elected MPs and all levels of local government representatives to receive an invitation from Hema Premadasa, the former President's wife, to ALL the events, organizes by the family on May 1st to remember the death anniversary of former President Ranasinghe Premadasa. They ask out loud where has Hema been all this ...
Ask yourself – What were the origins of Islam and when did “Halal certification” begin? The latter is just a man made tool created by some latter day well meaning ‘do gooders’ in the name of religion, to satisfy personal objectives, and have snookered the followers of Islam to believe that one must consume food only if it is so ...
The Rag Mawbima the Daily and Sunday Sinhala Paper of the Ceylon Newspapers Group owned by Tiran Alles now firmly with the Govt. and another sycophant of the Mahinda Rajapakse Regime is at it again to disguise its hand in glove love affair with the Autocrats. (started on Nov 18th last year on the Birthday of MR with a huge ...
The nightmare of Sri Lanka continues. The unbelievable sequence of events that began with the first JVP uprising on 5th April 1971 has, after the loss of more than 250,000 lives, as a direct result of uprisings since, have not yet ended! 150,000 deaths occurred without closure for the families involved, and is Sri Lanka’s legacy to a world, where ...
"I blame the government, Vice Chancellors of our universities and student leaders for not acting responsibly which started something which could have easily been avoided," Dr. Jayasundera said delivering the 9th Annual Sujata Jayawardena Memorial Oration at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute last evening.The pomposity and arrogance of our Treasury Secretary is apparent from the above statement. Humility is not ...
I erred on the premise that the leadership would be decided at yesterday’s Working Committee meeting. It was procedural to officially constitute the full quorum and for all the contesting parties to officially announce candidacy, and to agree on the procedures for a the secret ballots for the positions being contested.The election is at noon today, the remaining parliamentary ...
When the Ven Athureliya Rathana Thero, wishes to glorify himself for ever, by taking credit for bringing Maithripala Sirisena as the common candidate to represent all those who wish to topple the Dictatorship of the family Rajapakse, it is a little too smug! It smacks of un-Buddhist belief to wallow in triumphalism, when modesty in behavior is the requirement of ...
How ironic, insincere and downright treacherous of the President to make a statement yesterday, warning students, this time at Schools against attempts by some parties to introduce political ideas that differ from that of the Govt.’s thinking into education.http://www.dailymirror.lk/news/53634-mr-warns-over-facebook-politics-.htmlThis is just symptomatic of the Rajapakse disease that has taken control of Sri Lanka and is far more dangerous than the ...
Now it is the Pope telling MR to get on with reconciliation and solve our national problems. Have you ever wondered why we seem to take these daily edicts lying down? Is it because we just do not know how to behave with our fellow men in the country? We cannot get on with them so others offer unsolicited advice ...