By Lynn Ockersz Hunger is reaching fever-pitch, In stomachs shriveling sans Bread, But the grinny Sires in TV frames, Cajoling the queueing underclass, Calculate that waiting these folks out, With tongue-in-cheek syrupy talk, Is the best game they could play, To live and rule another day, But this amounts to fooling oneself, For, the dividing […]
by Dr Laksiri Fernando The current protests in Sri Lanka are multitude. The most influential has been the Galle Face protests, Aragalaya (Struggle), now exceeding two months. After a halfhearted governmental change, some of the participants must be staying at home or going for work, carefully watching the situation. However, it is superficial to say […]
The vaccination drive against COVID-19 got underway yesterday at six selected hospitals in the Western Province. Frontline health workers and military personnel were the first to receive the Oxford AstraZeneca COVISHIELD vaccine. A nurse at the Colombo National Hospital receiving the jab. Pic by Jude Denzil Pathiraja.
By Norman Palihawadana
Archbishop of Colombo, Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith yesterday asked the government not to appoint any more committees to delay action against those responsible for the Easter Sunday attacks. He made this statement after visiting a number of churches in Colombo and the suburbs yesterday.
The Cardinal said that the government had time till 21 April to take action against the perpetrators of the attacks and Catholics will take to the streets if their request went unheeded.
“We won’t be fooled again. Please, don’t try to mislead us. The Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) on Easter Sunday attacks took 18 months to submitted its report. There is no need to delay to act on its recommendations. If taking action, based on this report, is delayed further it is an indication that there is no law in this country.”
By Norman Palihawadana President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had instructed the formation of a special unit of retired military personnel to check all prison officers who enter and leave prisons, State Minister of Prison Management and Prisoners’ Rehabilitation, Lohan Ratwatte said yesterday. Ratwatte told The Island that earlier only junior prison officers were frisked, but recent developments […]