By Gandara John

It was in 1998 when the US executed a major coup in Sri Lanka and succeeded in passing a US propelled Australian Land Law (Torrens Law) through Sri Lanka’s Parliament; this was ‘The Registration of Title Act …

Rajpal Abeynayake

(Rajpal Abeynayake was the former Editor in Chief of the Sunday Observer, the Daily News and the Lakbimanews English weekly.)

This week’s terrorist attacks in Manchester would remind most Sri Lankan’s of attacks in buses and trains and …

Source; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3820659/At-justice-troops-Ministers-pledge-suspend-human-rights-laws-wartime-stop-soldiers-dragged-courts.html

Lawyers will no longer be able to chase British soldiers with ‘vexatious’ claims of human rights abuses, Theresa May  said today” at the Tory conference in Birmingham this morning. She told troops: ‘We are on your side.’  She …

So called nationalist political party, Jathika Hela Urumaya, JHU who came to power over the Ven. Soma thero’s coffin is now working against Sinhala Buddhists. JHU are now working tirelessly with officers of Housing Ministry of Sajith Premadasa to change …

13 A to Federal

(Courtesy of The Island)

Only a few things stand between devolution under the 13th Amendment and federalism. Among them are the unitary character of the state, the executive presidency and the powers of the provincial Governors …

Gunadasa Amarasekara.

Ranjith Soysa asked ‘Can the Prime Minister square a circle’ (6/5/Island).

My friend Ranjith should have no illusions about the capabilities of our Prime Minister. He may not be a statesmen or a visionary, but he is certainly …

This is in response to an article written by Jehan Perera titled “ Reversing the growing trust deficit in the North” published in the Island on 23rd May. Jehan Perera is a regular writer to the Island news paper and …

By Upul Nishantha

Ministers of the ‘Yahapaalana’ government has given approval to cabinet paper MDE/AD/03/CAB-PA/2017 to hand over 62,500 acres from Uva-Wellassa to the Gazelle Ventures of Singapore, through its parent company, the New York-based multinational company CDVCA, to cultivate …

Though many of us are joking about the appointment – I view this as a very strategic and dangerous appointment given the push for constiutional amendments.

With Mangala an ace in media manipulations – he is going to have the …

The Canadian Prime Minister, has issued a controversial statement to mark 8^th anniversary of so called Tamil terrorist war. The LTTE Tamil terrorists were  wiped out from Sri Lankan soil on 18^th May 2017. However, for the Canadian …