Chairman of the Committee On Public Enterprise (COPE) Professor Ranjith Bandara expressed his displeasure at the fact that despite the repeated insistence of the committee to conduct an independent inquiry into the matters of Sri Lanka Export Credit Insurance Corporation (SLECIC) it was found that no progress had been made. The Corporation had not appointed […]
…and move to license poaching in northern waters The Sectoral Committee on International Relations should examine the highly contentious proposal to regulate Indian poaching in Sri Lankan waters. Talks are continuing on the setting up of a licensing system to address a long standing problem. The intensity of poaching has only increased since the conclusion […]
At the behest of the then late President Ranasinghe Premadasa way back in 1989, the then Election Commission recognised the PFLT (People’s Front of Liberation Tigers) as the political arm of the LTTE. The late Gopalswamy Mahendraraja aka Mahattaya, the LTTE Deputy Leader was its founding leader (He was executed in Dec 1994 on the […]
By Shamindra Ferdinando The Japanese embassy and UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund, previously known as United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund), on 16 March, 2023, issued a joint statement that dealt with the impact the developing political-economic-social crisis is having on the poor in Sri Lanka. The statement focused on the suffering of the children […]
The Minister of Justice has instructed officials to expedite measures to take legal action and secure damages for the devastation caused by the MV -X Press Pearl fire. More than a year has passed since the vessel carrying a hazardous chemical cargo caught fire on 20 May 2021 while at anchorage 9.5 nm off the Colombo […]