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          By C. A. Chandraprema (Courtesy of The Island)   The idea that key appointments in the state should not be made by elected people’s representatives but by a panel of unelected, wise, politically uninvolved men..

          By C.A.Chandraprema (Courtesy of The Island)   The electoral system as regards Parliament originally laid out in the 1978 Constitution was very different to what we have today. Before the Fourteenth Amendment, there were to..

                By C. A. Chandraprema (Courtesy of The Island) President J. R. Jayewardene and Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi after signing the Indo-Lanka Accord, which paved the way for the provincial council system…

  By Neville Ladduwahetty (Courtesy of The Island)   According to a media report, the former President, Mahinda Rajapaksa speaking during the adjournment debate on a new Constitution is reported to have stated: ‘this country could not move forward without..

By shenali Waduge No amount of promises to guard Sri Lanka’s sovereignty can hold water if at legislative & policy level changes are being drafted to suit a neo-liberal agenda that aspires to transfer all state assets to foreign corporate..

By Praying Mantis (Courtesy of the Island) Many people from foreign climes and several different organisations as well as entire countries have been overtly or covertly dabbling in the affairs of our beautiful motherland. They are hell bent on destabilising..

Dr. Stephen Long, Los Angeles, California (Courtesy of The Island)   After spending most of my adult life in Hawaii and then Southeast Asia, I returned to the US and settled in Los Angeles in 1998. About two weeks after..

H. L. D. Mahindapala Anbarasan Ethirajan is a seasoned Correspondent of the BBC who covers Sri Lankan politics from time to time. His latest report is titled Sri Lanka’s Muslim demonised” after Easter bombings. (August 13, 2019 – BBC News). The..

                  The Western World seems obsessed with the promotion of Lt. General Shavendra Silva as the Commander of the Sri Lanka Army. The US Ambassador here, Aliana Teplitz, came with the first..

By Daya Gamage (Courtesy of Asian Tribune) Expressing “deeply concerned by the appointment of Lieutenant General Shavendra Silva as Army Commander”, the United States Ambassador in Sri Lanka Alaina Teplitz in the embassy-released statement further noted “the allegations of gross..