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Ingratitude is a trait common to mankind, more pronounced in this part of the world than anywhere else. Anyone who has read Shakespeare’s ” Merchant of Venice” would not have missed that part of Portia’s outburst – “I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness or any trait of vice where strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.” This beautiful and very apt quote seems to fit well to Sri Lankan politics, no less to the current “dog-fight” among...

I have read with great interest the informative professional letters by Eng. Dr.Janaka Ratnasiri, but was shocked and dismayed to read the above captioned letter; crossing the ‘Red Line’, so to say, bordering on lunacy or insanity, due to his over enthusiasm in his pet professional subject – Electricity; where, in his concluding para he […]

Mayor Patrick Brown of Brampton, Canada, in a recent very emotional statement carried in The Island of (27th January 2021) stated that, “Where they tear down a statue, they tear down history, but we would do the opposite in Canada. We would build a monument to remember the victims, to remember the Genocide” end quote. Mayor Brown has got the countries confused or something in a twist. What he probably meant was the great urgency and need to build a monument to remember the 524 years of colo...

The latest we are witnessing in the political scenario is the live discussion about events surrounding Minister Weerawansa of the ‘ pohottuwa’ regime. Amidst several conjectures expressed and unexpressed, the associated events have assumed highly important contours spreading across the nexus of the political picture of the country. Some sections of the opposition try to […]

Posted on February 18th, 2021 C. Wijeyawikcrema, LL.B., Ph.D. Introduction Lemkin who lost 49 family members to the Holocaust coined the term Genocide in 1943/4. Applying his definition to past events, the first genocide took place in USA when, white man distributed blankets soaked with smallpox germs to native Americans (Red Indians). Perhaps, even before that in 1818 and 1848 genocide took place in the British colony, Ceylon. Genocide is primarily a European-Christian...

On 11 February 2010, Pattani Razeek, a former Grama Niladhari (Village Official), a former Managing Trustee of the Community Trust Fund (CTF) and an Executive Committee Member of the Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA) was abducted. His remains were exhumed on 28 July 2011. On 1 February 2021, Razeek’s son Riskhan wrote to the Attorney General and the Minister of Justice about getting justice for his father’s case. “Me and my family members kindly appeal to you to le...

Posted on February 14th, 2021  Courtesy CGTN News Two American scholars recently debunked the myth of the Chinese “debt trap,” saying that exhaustive research shows that Chinese banks have never actually seized an asset from any country and are willing to restructure the terms of existing loans.  They called the Chinese debt-trap narrative “a lie, and a powerful one.” Deborah Brautigam, one of the authors of the research, published their findings in The Atlant...

The News Scroll 13 February 2021   Last Updated at 2:11 pm | Source: PTI Sri Lanka says it scrapped port deal as Indian firm rejected terms Outlook February 13, 2021 14:11 IST Sri Lanka says it scrapped port deal as Indian firm rejected terms outlookindia.com 1970-01-01T05:30:00+0530 Colombo, Feb 13 (PTI) Sri Lanka has said it scrapped the trilateral deal with India and Japan to develop the Colombo Port’s Eastern Container Terminal (ECT) as the Indian firm involved...

Scrapped Colombo Port Deal As Indian Firm Rejected Terms: Sri Lanka Scrapped Colombo Port Deal As Indian Firm Rejected Terms: Sri Lanka Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksas office on February 1 said that his government has decided to run the Colombo Ports Eastern Container Terminal as a fully-owned operation of the state-run port authority. India, Japan and Sri Lanka had inked an agreement in 2019 to develop Colombo Port Colombo: Sri Lanka has said it scrapped the trilateral deal with India a...

Sri Lanka scraps port deal as Indian firm rejected terms Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksas office on February 1 said that his government has decided to run the Colombo Ports Eastern Container Terminal (ECT) as a fully-owned operation of the state-run ports authority PTI | February 13, 2021 | Updated 15:15 IST India, Japan and Sri Lanka had inked an agreement in 2019 on development of the terminal project Sri Lanka has said it scrapped the trilateral deal with India and Japan to develop the Col...