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Electoral changes at this juncture: Stabbing with a golden knife-By M.S.M AYUB Source:Dailymirror The claims and doubts of the current Opposition parties that the SLPP led government under President Ranil Wickremesinghe was planning to delay the elections for the local councils that are scheduled to be held early next year are not unfounded. In fact, there are sufficient grounds to believe that government fears elections, what so ever, in light of the hardships faced by the people due to the current economic meltdown President Ranil Wickremesinghe on October 9 made several suggestions to the country’s electoral system during a meeting with a group of professionals at the Presidential Secretariat.    He stated that the number of members in local government bodies should be brought down from the current 8700 to 4000, a referendum should be held to decide the Parliamentary electoral system unless the Parliamentary select committee which is to ...

Oct 15, 2022 Posted by In Articles Tagged , ,
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Collapse of the Aragalaya Protesters in their thousands stormed the President’s House, the Presidential Secretariat and Temple Trees on July 9. Picture by Rukmal Gamage Source:Dailynews On July 9, it looked as if Sri Lanka was undergoing a “revolution” spearheaded by “peoples’ power” in the raw. Massive crowds had converged on Colombo to force President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to quit. The Presidential Palace, the Presidential Secretariat and the Prime Minister’s office were stormed, vandalized, and occupied. But the most striking act was the burning of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s personal residence, a repository of thousands of books and rare objet d’art. Sections of the political class, savouring the anti-Government moves with delight, hailed the events as a triumph of the “popular will” over the “corrupt” Establishment. Constitutionalism was devalued. More shockingly, a former Commander of the Sri Lankan Army, a war hero and the country’s only Field Marshal, urged the Security ...

Aug 17, 2022 Posted by In Articles Tagged ,
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Sri Lanka’s Future – By Dr Harold Gunatillake Website: www.Doctorharold.com transcript: FSP Leader Kumar Gunaratnam and his “Aragalaya”- The emergence of the “Peratugami Samajavadi Pakshaya” (Frontline Socialist Party) as an influential player in Sri Lankan politics. A remarkably significant outcome of the Aragalaya has been the emergence of the “Peratugami Samajavadi Pakshaya” (Frontline Socialist Party) as an influential player in Sri Lankan politics The Peratugami Samajavadi Pakshaya is composed of the members who defected from the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). It can be considered as a party that was born in the political womb of the JVP and competes with it The pioneering role played by the Anthar Vishwa Vidyalaya Shishya Bala Mandalaya (Inter-University Students’ Federation) which can be considered as the university student union of the party in preparing and mobilising militant student groups for the uprising seems to have contributed significantly to the enhancement of the strength of the ...

Jul 26, 2022 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged , , , ,
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How I made good in Australia, some reminiscences – By Dr Harold Gunatillake   Written by Dr Harold Gunatillake OAM FRCS,FIACS,FICS,AM(Sing), MBBS(Cey) In 1969, I returned to the island with my fellowship degree and much training with one of the famous surgeons in London, Mr Norman Tanner, and as Senior registrar at Queen Mary’s Hospital Orthopaedics. I still recollect the interview for the selection of Senior Orthopedic Registrar at Queen Mary’s, sitting in front of a panel of professionals and administrators, and over 50 doctors sitting in the waiting room waiting for their interview for a single position, many locally qualified Britons. I was asked, “Mr Gun, what are your plans coming from Ceylon seeking positions in hospitals in the UK?” My prompt reply was that I have been sent to the UK for specialised training to obtain the fellowship degree, return to Ceylon, and spread the ‘Gospel of the ...

Jul 18, 2022 Posted by In Articles, Dr harold Gunatillake Tagged , , ,
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Let us all be proud that we are ‘Sri Lankans’ by Harold Gunatillake Dear Readers, I would like to share this exposure published in the ‘Leader’ Sutherland shire Newspaper in NSW, which is sure to bring pride to all our Sri Lankans migrated here, bringing in much credit to our motherland. We migrated to this lucky country when the situation back home, mainly our living conditions were at its lowest. So as the saying goes,” We left the sinking ship’. Most of us still have connections with our mother country and we cannot forget the good times we had. Why I left Sri Lanka in 1972 was, mainly due to the lack of facilities in Hospitals for the proper care of patients. I was lastly, working as General Surgeon in Badulla Provincial Hospital in the early seventies. Believe me, there was a dearth of antibiotics, including saline given intravenously to emergency ...

Jan 29, 2022 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , ,
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