Profgl Peiris News Today

Bangladesh High Commissioner to Sri Lanka Tareq Mohammad Ariful Islam has inaugurated the third Bangladesh Film Festival in Colombo on Friday.

By Jehan Perera President Ranil Wickremesinghe notched up another achievement when Parliament ratified the Domestic Debt Restructuring (DDR) programme with a majority of 60 votes, with 122 members voting for and 62 against, with 40 abstentions. Parliamentarians who would need to think about their re-election prospects would have been reluctant to vote for a programme […]

By Dr D.Chandraratna We often have heard that democracy is the truest form of politics. It is also the form of government superior to any other political rule. Conversely it is also argued that democracy as a social movement can deteriorate to tyranny and destruction if it is not guarded from those pretending to be […]

The music city of Moratuwa is agog with excitement, as the ‘Down Memory Lane’ Silver Jubilee year celebration will move into top gear, this Saturday, 29th April, at The Grand Bolgoda Resort Moratuwa…from 6 pm onwards. Old, the not so old, as well as the young ones, who love the golden oldies, are expected to […]

By Jehan Perera Slowly but surely the ruling party is beginning to reassert itself.  An indication is the removal of Prof G L Peiris from the chairmanship of the ruling party.  In the aftermath of the economic collapse last year he has been one of the few members from the SLPP to have adopted a […]

By Jehan Perera There was Solomon-like wisdom in the Supreme Court’s decision with regard to the local government election cases that came before it.  The first case it took up was brought before it by Opposition parties, which are concerned that the government is doing its utmost to prevent those elections. The Election Commission has been […]

Terrorism laws applied to protestors

She certainly looks gorgeous and she is seen on stage, these days, with the group Genesis, led by Kevin Hingert. According to Kevin, Indumini Siriwardena is doing her thing, temporarily, with Genesis, until the return of their female vocalist, Karen, who is abroad, at the moment. Kevin describes Indumini as a singer with a varied […]

By Jehan Perera The government has sent its “A Team” to Geneva to face the international human rights community and the UN Human Rights Commission. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has raised concerns about the lack of accountability in Sri Lanka. In her report, Bachelet said human rights violations and abuses […]

By Jehan Perera Every Independence Day there is the hope that the country will turn the corner and reach the potential it had in 1948. Leonard Woolf, the British Civil Servant, who wrote “Village in the Jungle” saw the newly independent country as a future ‘Switzerland of the East’ if it found a way to […]