Economist and International Relations Expert, Former Ambassador/Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations at Geneva, Former Senior International Civil Servant at the United Nations, and Ex-Chairperson/Rapporteur of Intergovernmental Working Group on the Right to Development

INTRODUCTION

A fundamental …

(By Courtesy of Information Clearing House)

Washington has chosen a president for Venezuela. I wonder if Trump saw the black humor in doing to Maduro what the Democrats and presstitutes are doing to him.

Few Latin American governments have ever …

(Courtesy by The Island)

The government has now placed before the Constitutional Assembly a Draft Constitution consisting of a preamble and 399 Articles arranged through 40 Chapters. The structure of the draft is similar to the present Constitution, although the …

(Courtesy of Asia Times)

The more than three-decade armed conflict between the Sinhala majority government of Sri Lanka and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) came to an end with the defeat of the LTTE in May 2009. However, the …

Former Chancellor of University of Sri Jayawardenapura, the scholar monk who raised the institution to national and international fame, Bellanwila Wimalarathana Anunayake Thera (1942 – 2018) passed away on the 3rd day of February 2018. Ven. Anunayake Thera’s first remembrance …

DipEE(UK), GradCert-Rel Eng(Monash), DipBus&Adm-Finance(Massey), CEng. MIEE

Tamils both in Sri Lanka and Overseas are requested to read and digest this article, please.

Tamil diaspora of the current generation, even their children are married to local mixed or half-caste race, are …

by Rajeewa Jayaweera

(Courtesy of The Sunday Island)

According to a recent media report, UK government (GoUK) has recently appointed a Resident Defense Advisor in Sri Lanka after an absence of ten years. The story was accompanied by a photograph …

Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa has said in a statement on the constitutional reforms, said that the draft constitution seeks to weaken Parliament and immeasurably strengthen the provincial legislatures, and it will compromise the unitary character of the Constitution.

He said …

(by Courtesy of The Island)

The Economist’s “Intelligence unit Democracy Index” (www.eiu.com) which provides a snapshot of the state of democracy globally has ranked Norway in the top of the list as a “full democracy” while Sri Lanka …

Ranil Wickremesinghe’s biggest ever deal in his entire political career, with which he hoped to win the Nobel Peace Prize, was his Cease-fire Agreement (CFA) with Velupillai Prabhakaran. Irrespective of the disastrous consequences of his delusional peace deal, he signed …