This is also relevant to serious crimes against journalists and although this report lacks specific focus on media freedom, there is reference to emblematic cases, which in past reports by the High Commissioner for Human Rights included killings and

Are we witnessing another Yahapalana Government, not in its literal sense, but in its political sense? One would recollect that the Yahapalana Government was a cart pulled back and forth by two horses. President Maithripala Sirisena ran one govern

These are times when parents and even politicians are promoting the thought of quality education because when pursuing a goal in life ambition must match skill. Just the other day...

As Israel kills a child every ten minutes in the Gaza Strip, the world’s biggest open prison, it’s revolting to see that the horror has still not drawn condemnation from the United States....

Facts do not change. Feelings do and our feelings about ‘THE MESS’ (as the country’s situation is commonly referred to) vary from anger to despair, depending on income, social status, or career. I do not pretend to know what the citizens of dis

With armed conflicts raging in the Middle East and in the war between Russia and Ukraine, we need to ponder deeply on the reflections of the United Nations on the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed C

With reference to the article by Citizen Perera on the IMF attempting to destroy the country’s deeds and archival records while relying solely on a digital register, yes, as the....

Earlier this month, 21 October to be exact, President Wickremesinghe announced presidential elections would be conducted next year (2024). He added parliamentary elections and provincial....

In the immediate aftermath of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, I wrote in these pages why many who feel outrage at the Hamas barbarism may still hesitate for an unqualified condemnation...

Brother Lionel Peiris, an Anglican Franciscan, stepped into the Embassy of Palestine in Sri Lanka by stating, “Now we are in Palestine.” He was a member of a group of peace-loving citizens who together with a collective of multi-religious leaders

The government is deserved to be commended if we can rely on the media reports that it has withdrawn the Online Safety Bill to refashion and present it again, since it has drawn much criticism from the local and international right groups. However, t

The first and second parts of this article published on 14 and 21 October respectively narrated the story of how I was arrested by the CID in October 1987 and detained on the 4th floor for having exposed....

It is all too familiar that Sri Lanka has a problem in meeting its budgeted revenue targets. Recently, a government member of parliament (MP) who voted in favour of the budget last....

Just over a year ago, our country declared itself bankrupt. In turn, our country was not considered credit-worthy by international lending institutions. With expenditure far exceeding import....

Eugene Burdick’s The Ugly American, -1958 is a political novel with a plot based on American foreign policy; it offers a pointed critique of US actions in Southeast....

There are many individuals in Sri Lanka who do not have a place to call his/her home and thereby do not have a permanent address. They either live in rented houses or share a home with another family, but without any ownership for the place where the

In March 2021 The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution giving UN Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet a mandate to collect and preserve information and evidence of war crimes committed during Sri Lanka’s nearly 30-year-long civil war, whi

Many are of the opinion that profits can be made from tourism in this pearl of an island even if businesses related to this industry are badly run. This is a myth according to experts in the tourism....

What is happening in Gaza is a violent act of ethnic cleansing. Period. It is happening in full view of the international community, while those who have the capability to prevent it are allowing...

With President Ranil Wickremesinghe and the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Government reportedly planning to introduce bills to restrict media freedom and impose checks on social media networks, independent analysts are warning of the repercussio

Public concerns about the independence of the Judiciary in Sri Lanka were the focus of a recent conference of the Lawyers Collective. Following certain statements made by the executive and in Parliament the Lawyers Collective asserted that the indepe

The Ceylon Electricity Board has done it again. Electricity tariffs have been raised by a whopping 18%. At this moment according....

If you keep yourself up to date with local news, you are also likely to be bombarded with an overdose of negativity, which might make....

Let me gently remind all of you that this theme merely does not reflect the immediate considerations of the current situation of the maritime...

There are allegations that the Parliament’s committees on Public Accounts (COPA) and Public Enterprises (COPE) are toothless tigers at a time when corruption has engulfed the entire state machinery from top to bottom of almost all pubic institution

Sri Lanka’s Environment Minister and MP of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) Naseer Ahamed was recently ousted from his parliamentary membership by the Supreme Court for defying the party whip and joining the government of President Ranil Wickre

Parliament is the highest legislative body in a country. In other words, it makes the laws of the land. It has three functions; representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the work....

472 people lost their lives in Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza; thousands suffered injuries in a highly contentious air raid on the hospital. Approximately one-third of Gaza’s population consists....

As stated last week, the CID director DIG Bennet Perera showed me the letter written by Defence Secretary Gen. Sepala Attygalle instructing the Police to question me for information regarding the murder of four Rupavahini employees in Jaffna.

President Ranil Wickremesinghe through a Gazette Notice on October 16 appointed a nine-member Commission headed by former Chief Justice Priyasath Dep to make recommendations on electoral reforms.