Frustration In The North Amidst Reconciliation Rhetoric-By Jehan Perera Jehan Perera Source:Colombotelegraph The frustration within the Tamil polity at the failure of the government to treat them fairly and address their grievances is taking a new turn in parliament. Unable to reason with those who hold the majority of votes, Tamil parliamentarians are taking to non-violent action over words. Those political parties that represent ethnic and religious minorities rarely if ever have sought to physically disrupt the proceedings in parliament, one reason being their paucity of numbers. Almost without exception, physical protest actions in parliament have been the preserve of the ruling party and main opposition parties. The nadir of such clashes was seen in rowdy behavior in parliament during the abortive constitutional coup of 2018 when then Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was sacked without warning by his erstwhile ally, President Maithripala Sirisena. Parliamentarians belonging to the Tamil and Muslim political ...
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Of that crab dance Source:Island The government has scored another victory. In what may be called a show of strength, it steamrollered the controversial Petroleum Products (Special Provisions) Amendment Bill through Parliament on Tuesday (18) amidst protests by the Opposition and the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) trade unions. But it is bound to baulk at taking up the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution Bill for debate. Many a government politician who headed for the hills at the height of Aragalaya is now back in the saddle. All the burning issues that led to the emergence of mass protests a few moons ago remain unsolved. Gotabaya Rajapaksa quit the presidency; Mahinda resigned as Prime Minister; Basil left Parliament, and Namal and Chamal have ceased to be ministers. But the Rajapaksas continue to call the shots in the government. They know more than one way to shoe a horse, and have outfoxed their rivals. ...
Oct 23, 2022
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Sri Lanka News September 06th September 2022 – 09th September 2022 brought to you by eLanka (1) The introduction of the Social Security Contribution Tax Bill to Parliament has been postponed until next Thursday. The reason was the opposition raised for it. Mr. Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who commented on this, said that although the VAT is 15%, the price of general goods and services through this social security tax increases by almost 20% when VAT is added, and no action has been taken by anyone who created this crisis. The central bank’s entire reserves were emptied. Has any decision been taken regarding Cabral or the Finance Minister? In January 2020, nearly Rs 654 billion was prevented from reaching the treasury. Have decisions been made about them? Due to the delay of the fuel ship, the petroleum corporation has to pay a lot of money to the company. Fertilizer ships have ...
Sep 28, 2022
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New President elected in Sri Lanka parliament – By Dr Harold Gunatillake Website: www.Doctorharold.com Transcript: The newly elected President Ranil Wickremesinghe thanking his contenders DullasAlahapperuma and Anura Kumara Dissanayake, urged the MPs to work together in a new manner. “The people are not asking us for old politics. I request Opposition leader Sajith Premadasa and other opposition parties including former Presidents Mahinda Rajapaksa and Maithripala Sirisena to work together,” Wickremesinghe said in a speech following the ballot. “We were divided for the last 48 hours. That period is now over. We have to work together now,” he added. The new President also requested the Speaker to take oaths as President within the Parliament premises. This was the first time in the history of Sri Lanka that a vote took place in Parliament to elect a succeeding President, following the post being left vacant by Gotabaya Rajapaksa who resigned on the 14th ...
Jul 21, 2022
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RANIL WICKREMESINGHE WINS PRESIDENTIAL VOTE Source: dailymirror.lk Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe has won the Presidential election held in Parliament a short while ago, the Speaker announced. Ranil Wickremesinghe obtained 134 votes while Dullas Alahapperume obtained 82 votes and Anura Kumara Dissanayake has obtained 3 votes. ...
Jul 20, 2022
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SRI LANKA NEWS (JUNE 2022) Compiled by Victor Melder Asia Siyaka (AS) tea market report for sale no. 21, covering the period May 31- June 1, indicates a production drop of nearly 10 million kilos compared to 2021. Results for the year up to the above dates, the report said, was 111.5 million kilos. Comparatively, for the same period in 2021, production recorded was 122.25 million kilos, indicating a minus variant for the comparative period of about 10 million kilos. The formalized plantation sector was not on hand to corroborate these results. However, tea smallholders and private tea factory owners, when contacted, confirmed a drop in production. It should also be noted that tea smallholders are responsible for 75 per cent tea production. Among the major factors that accounted for these results was the ill- advised decision by the current administration to ban imported fertilizer and the lack of weedicides. ...
Jul 1, 2022
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Port City Economic Commission Bill; Separate state in the horizon?-by Kamanthi Wickramasinghe The gazetting of the Port City Economic Commission Bill so quickly has raised a few eyebrows both in the local business community as well as in the legal fraternity Source:Dailymirror Political parties including the Opposition have raised concerns over transparency and the use of Executive powers by the President to run it as a separate state The Bill will become a reality whatever government is in power in Sri Lanka The Bill makes the case for the necessity, preservation, and perhaps the further strengthening of the already strong Presidential system of government The people should get an opportunity to decide for themselves whether this Bill, if transformed into law, affects their freedom Without reforming the system in place, it is difficult to expect everything relating only to the Port City to run smoothly through the legal and judicial ...
Cardinal calls for decisive action Easter Mass at St Sebastian’s Church in Katuwapitiya last Sunday (AFP) Source:Dailynews Easter (now also known as Resurrection Sunday) that symbolizes Jesus Christ’s triumph over death was observed by the Christian brethren in Sri Lanka with solemn Masses in churches across the country last Sunday, while the island nation was still struggling to come to terms with the piercing agony of the Easter Sunday carnage that took nearly 260 innocent lives and injured about 500 people, mostly Churchgoers, two years ago. The Easter Sunday Services at St. Anthony’s Shrine in Kochchikade, St Sebastian’s Church in Katuwapitiya and Zion Church in Batticaloa, the three churches that came under suicide attacks on April 21, 2019, rekindled the bone-chilling memories of the fateful day, as the families and friends of those victims gathered for prayers while impatiently waiting for justice for their loved ones who lost their lives ...
Apr 11, 2021
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The New Old Left turns 50-by Malinda Seneviratne Source:Island Revolutionaries, self-styled or otherwise, are hard to imagine as old people, the exception of course being Fidel Castro. Castro grew old with a Cuban Revolution that has demonstrated surprising resilience. Che Guevara was effectively stilled, literally and metaphorically when he was just 39, ensuring iconic longevity — and the wild haired image with a star pinned on a beret is a symbol of resistance and, as is often the case, used to endorse and inspire things and processes that would have horrified the man. Daniel Ortega at 75 was a revolutionary leader who reinvented himself a few decades after the Sandinistas’ exit was effectively orchestrated by the USA in April 1990. He’s changed and so has the Sandinistas. Revolutionary is not an appropriate descriptive for either. ...
Apr 11, 2021
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Estranged strange bedfellows Source:Island Tuesday 2nd March, 2021 The JVP has torn the Easter Sunday Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) report to shreds. Its leaders have picked many holes in the document, and their arguments are tenable. Their position is that the PCoI has served no useful purpose as it has failed to identify the masterminds of the terror strikes. One cannot but agree with them on this score. JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, MP, has gone a step further; he has demanded to know why Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was the Prime Minister at the time of the Easter Sunday attacks, has been let off the hook. We asked the JVP a similar quetion when the COPE (Committee on Public Enterprises), which probed the Treasury bond scams, went out of its way to ensure that Wickremesinghe’s name did not appear in its report. The COPE probe, under the chairmanship of ...
Mar 6, 2021
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