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The ‘Women Plus Bazaar 2023’ exhibition organized for the first time with the aim of empowering Sri Lankan women was declared open by President Ranil Wickremesinghe at Shangri-La Hotel in Colombo Sunday (30). The exhibition was organized by the Embassy of the Arab Republic of Egypt in Colombo, the Colombo Municipal Council, the Ministry of...

By Shamindra Ferdinando President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is also the Finance Minister, recently named three persons – all women -whose intervention supposedly brought relief to bankrupt Sri Lanka. UNP leader Wickremesinghe paid glowing tributes to Indian Finance and Corporate Affairs Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, US Secretary of State Janet Yellen, and IMF Managing Director and Chairman […]

Monday 12th December, 2022 The government is determined to allow a rogue foreign company to exploit the Aruwakkalu ilmenite deposit and cause a huge loss to the State coffers. Pressure is mounting on some public officials to facilitate the corrupt deal expeditiously. Elections are the times when racketeers have a field day in this country, […]

Rear Admiral (Retd.) Sarath Weerasekera, RWP, VSV, USP I owe a duty to the Public to explain why I voted against the 21st amendment. I opposed the 19th amendment then for the same and even more reasons than I opposed the 21st amendment. The Hambantota Port was given away without calling for tenders by the […]

Colombo District MP Admiral (Rtd.) Sarath Weerasekera has said he did not abstain from voting on the third reading of 22A, in Parliament on Friday.He voted against it, as he had done on the second reading, he has said.Weerasekera said on Saturday that his vote had been incorrectly recorded and rechecked after he complained. “It […]

The SJB has called President Ranil Wickremesinghe not to misinterpret the passage of the 22nd amendment to the Constitution as a victory for him.Addressing a public rally at Galagedara in Kandy yesterday, Chief Opposition Whip SJB Kandy District MP Lakshman Kiriella said the majority of those who had voted for the 22nd Amendment were from […]

Ex-Speaker KJ says laws of the land should be applied across the board By Shamindra Ferdinando Prof. Channa Jayasumana, MP, says Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena should take tangible measures to remove all dual citizens from Parliament.The Anuradhapura District rebel SLPP MP has asserted that nearly a dozen dual citizens remain in Parliament, though Basil Rajapaksa […]

Postponement of elections President Ranil Wickremesinghe seems to have taken a leaf out of his uncle. J. R. Jayewardene’s book on postponing elections, says JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake.Addressing a seminar conducted by the JVP-led NPP at the Sri Lanka Foundation in Colombo recently, Dissanayake, said: “People still remember how Wickremesinghe’s uncle Jayewardene put off […]

Opposition and SJB Leader Sajith Premadasa has warned the Wickremesinghe-Rajapaksa government against alleged moves to replace retired Justice Rohini Marasinghe, Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission and Nimal Punchihewa, Chairman of the Election Commission. Declaring that his party had voted for the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution to end Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s dictatorship, Premadasa, who is also […]

By Norman Palihawadane Police yesterday nabbed 43 persons who were staying at a hotel in Unawatuna to migrate to Australia illegally by boat.The arrests were made by the Habaraduwa Police with the assistance of the Navy. All 43 suspected illegal migrants are residents of Jaffna. Among them were 33 men, seven women and three children. […]