News Room : Indoor facility opens for school shooters of Gampaha – The Island
Rex Clementinein Brisbane After weeks of rain and washouts, finally the World Cup has returned to Queensland where hot and sunny weather is greeting the teams. The Sri Lankans of course are feeling at home and trained yesterday at Ian Healy Oval, an half hour drive from Brisbane. Sri Lankans of course remember Healy very well. He was an outstanding wicketkeeper...
News Room : Ranthushka, Nadeesha clinch singles crowns at MBA Open – The Island
Rex Clementinein Brisbane After weeks of rain and washouts, finally the World Cup has returned to Queensland where hot and sunny weather is greeting the teams. The Sri Lankans of course are feeling at home and trained yesterday at Ian Healy Oval, an half hour drive from Brisbane. Sri Lankans of course remember Healy very well. He was an outstanding wicketkeeper...
News Room : Dirty regimes
Tuesday 1st November, 2022 Dissident SLPP MP Dullas Alahapperuma has used an interesting analogy to describe the government’s fear of elections or ‘polls phobia’, which he has likened to Amou Haji’s aversion to water. He has driven his point home. His speeches are usually replete with figures of speech and local idioms, which help convey his message very effectively. Amou...
News Room : Spirit of magnanimity to accompany national problem solving – The Island
This is how The McNaMarr Project, made up of Sri Lankan Andrea Marr, and John McNamara, based in Melbourne, Australia, has been described: “If you close your eyes, you think its Otis Redding and Tina Turner singing to you”. They say the stars aligned, in the musical universe, when Andrea and John, both well respected and experienced Australian Soul...
News Room : CIPE and COSMI assist communities displaced by Southern Expressway
By Ifham Nizam Through a pilot advocacy initiative funded by the Centre for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the Confederation of Micro Small and Medium Industries (COSMI) reached out to help the local community overcome the current crisis, through a novel advocacy initiative to assist those among it displaced by large -scale infrastructure (LSI) projects. The intervention sought to assist the ‘Kaludodol’...
News Room : Mahanamahewa flays ‘parliamentary system’ over contempt of SC issue – The Island
BASL says ‘it is a matter entirely for the House’ By Shamindra Ferdinando Prof. Prathiba Mahanamahewa of the Colombo University Law Faculty, yesterday, lambasted the double standards in dealing with lawmakers over contempt of court, which, too, tended to erode public confidence in the parliamentary system. The Attorney-at-Law said so referring to the sentencing of Gampaha District MP Ranjan Ramanayake (SJB) to four years...
News Room : Mrs. Nicol’s Century – The Island
By George Braine My father was the youngest of nine children. They grew up not far from Negombo, in their mother’s ancestral village of Boralessa. With time, for employment and marriage, the siblings moved away, three to the Kandy area, the extended family meeting only rarely. Aunty Alice had begun working as a teacher and had later turned to nursing; three...
News Room : Sirisena claims SLFP now attracting a better class of politicians – The Island
BASL says ‘it is a matter entirely for the House’ By Shamindra Ferdinando Prof. Prathiba Mahanamahewa of the Colombo University Law Faculty, yesterday, lambasted the double standards in dealing with lawmakers over contempt of court, which, too, tended to erode public confidence in the parliamentary system. The Attorney-at-Law said so referring to the sentencing of Gampaha District MP Ranjan Ramanayake (SJB) to four years...
News Room : FSP frowns on increases in defence expenditure – The Island
BASL says ‘it is a matter entirely for the House’ By Shamindra Ferdinando Prof. Prathiba Mahanamahewa of the Colombo University Law Faculty, yesterday, lambasted the double standards in dealing with lawmakers over contempt of court, which, too, tended to erode public confidence in the parliamentary system. The Attorney-at-Law said so referring to the sentencing of Gampaha District MP Ranjan Ramanayake (SJB) to four years...
News Room : Another huge waste of money is uncovered.
An audit report reveals that the Ministry of Finance has spent nearly ten crores in 2018 to inform the public about the budget and the two-year freedom of the media through electronic and print media. It also states that seven crore thirty nine lakhs (7,38,92,963*) have been spent on creating and advertising advertisements to inform the public about the budget. The...