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SRI LANKA NEWS – (NOVEMBER 2019) – Compiled by Victor Melder. Sri Lanka’s top court on Tuesday effectively blocked a plan by the president to bring back hangings for the first time since 1976 before he leaves office this month. Maithripala Sirisena said in June that he had signed death warrants for four drug offenders — mirroring the Philippines’ no-holds-barred anti-narcotics drive — alarming rights groups and the international community. A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court extended on Tuesday a stay order until the hearing of 15 petitions filed against Sirisena’s bid. “The bench extended the stay order till December 9,” a lawyer representing civil society groups, who call hanging a “cruel and degrading”, said after a brief hearing. Sirisena is not seeking re-election and must leave office as soon as a winner is declared after the November 16 election, more than three weeks before the court resumes hearings. There ...

Dec 1, 2019 Posted by eLanka admin In Articles, Victor Melder Tagged Bandula Gunawardena, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, International Monetary Fund, Maithripala Sirisena Comments 0

Mirror Business interview with Prof Arusha Cooray Lack of fiscal discipline has plagued Lankan governments over the years: economist – Dr. Arusha Cooray Mirror Business conducted an email interview with Dr. Arusha Cooray, the Lankan born Professor of Economics at the Nottingham University Business School (Malaysia), over the current economic situation of Sri Lanka. Dr. Cooray’s work is widely published and she is one of the leading academics in the field of economics Sri Lanka has produced. Sri Lanka’s economy is currently undergoing extremely testing times amid depleting foreign reserves, an unsustainable debt pile and a looming balance of payment (BoP) crunch. The bad economic policies of successive governments are at fault for the current predicament the country is in, but the present global economic developments also haven’t been in favour of the US $ 82 billion economy. Following are the excerpts of the interview. What is your opinion of ...

Apr 11, 2016 Posted by admin In Articles Tagged Arusha Cooray, International Monetary Fund, Nottingham University Business School (Malaysia), Prof Arusha Cooray, Professor of Economics, Professor of Economics at the Nottingham University Business School, Professor of Economics at the Nottingham University Business School (Malaysia), Sri Lankan economy, Sri Lanka’s economy, status of the Sri Lankan economy Comments 0