Category: Local News

While the Sri Lankan government has so far given the impression that it does not take offence to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh skipping the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Sri Lanka’s Economic Development Minister Basil Rajapaksa said on Sunday that he was disappointed with Dr. Singh’s absence. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – Why did the President of this country have to end up defending the nation when those enjoying plush positions and virtually in orbit 24×7 roaming Western shores remain absolutely nonplussed about how to respond when the Prime Minister of Britain breaching all protocols insults us on our soil? Why […]

The Australian government yesterday declared that it would gift two large Bay Class patrol vessels to the Sri Lankan Navy early next year. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – The present Government will go down in history as giving India the biggest stakes in Sri Lanka’s post-conflict despite being rewarded with consecutive humiliations by India. None of these humiliations have even remotely pushed Sri Lanka’s leaders to realize that India CANNOT be TRUSTED or made Sri Lanka’s leaders […]

Five persons were killed and at least another 15 wounded after a collision between a bus and a van at Talatuoya in Kandy this morning, police said. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – An ICC that cannot take US and UK to trial is not an international court. This is why the African Union has finally decided to review its relationship with the International Criminal Court in view of the rising number of cases against African leaders sponsored by Western nations. If […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – David Cameron has asked Sri Lanka’s President to act like Winston Churchill. That really isn’t the best of examples to give because in looking up Winston Churchill his policies is nothing that Sri Lanka or any of its leaders adopted or would care to adopt just because Churchill said […]

Head of the Channel 4 media team Callum Macrae has said, on twitter, that they did not pay the driver, who brought them to Colombo on Thursday, as they were forced to return by the police. […]

David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , who is now in Sri Lanka to attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2013 met with President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Memorial Exhibition Centre this evening (Nov. 15). […]

  – by Shenali D. Waduge – If the international community were to raise the issue of the lack of effective legislative protection for animals in Sri Lanka incorporating modern standards of treatment of animals,  in addition to their never-ending spotlight on the country’s human rights track record, Sri Lanka’s politicians and law makers will […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa officially declared open 2013 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting at the Nelum Pokuna Mahinda Rajapaksa Performance Theatre in Colombo. […]

– by Shenali D Waduge – There are 2 points we would like to convey to Britain. First up is that it is getting a bit tiring listening to statements issued by you and your Government accusing countries of this that and the other ignoring not just your own criminal past but criminal present as […]

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2013 commenced today (November 15) at 10.15am at the Nelum Pokuna Mahinda Rajapaksa theatre with 53 countries set to participate in the summit. […]

The Minister of Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms, Chandrasiri Gajadeera, announced that the Watareka Prison School would be opened by January 2014. Prison statistics reveal that out of 32,128 inmates, 2,848 are uneducated. […]

President Mahinda Rajapaksa hosted the Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall Sir Charles Philip Arthur George at the President’s House this (Nov. 14) evening. […]

The Duke of Cornwall Sir Charles Philip Arthur George and the Duchess of Cornwall, Lady Camilla Parker Bowles, arrived in Sri Lanka a short while ago, Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013 at 4.00pm for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2013 beginning in Colombo. […]