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 […]
Public interest group points finger at corrupt public-private partnership By Shamindra Ferdinando A group representing trade union and civil society collective on Tuesday (07) called for urgent action to tackle the well-organised influential public–private sector partnership engaged in ‘overinvoicing’ and ‘under invoicing, with the blessing of successive governments. Addressing the media at the Centre for […]
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