The Presidential 9-day foreign tour of Donald Trump has been perhaps the most successful first such tour for any US President. Not only has he visited a friendly country but also countries which many thought were his adversaries, and he …

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 …

Historically Christianity & Islam has been at odds. Both remain engaged in a historical endeavour to overrule & over power the other while at another level both join to influence other religions and their status quo. Both Vatican/Holy See and …

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 …

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 …

LTTE was an India-created militant organization that was militarily defeated in May 2009. Its rule of terror ran for 30 years amidst failed negotiations, peace talks and peace agreements. After refusing the 3 offers given to lay down arms and …