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Your chance to re-write history Mr. President! A second letter to AKD……. – By Aubrey Joachim Dear Mr. President, Your victories have been stunning to say the least. Winning the top job was good enough. Your virtual clean sweep of the legislative chamber is more than impressive. However, unprecedented is your victory in the North where for the first time in modern political history a Sinhalese Buddhist has been given a mandate by the Tamil Hindu populace. Let this be the last time that Sri Lanka and Sri Lankans have to be referred to by race or religion. You have ensured that our great country is but one nation of people who can achieve greatness. The last time that our island nation was under one ruler – except when a British Monarch held sway during colonisation – was is 1153 AD when the Great King Parakramabahu I reigned over the ...

Nov 16, 2024 Posted by In Articles, Aubrey Joachim Tagged , , , , , , , , , ,
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HUMBLE BEGINNINGS OF PRESIDENT ELECT ANURA KUMARA DISSANAYAKE WITH DESIRE TO UPLIFT THE DIRE LIVING VALUES OF DESTITUTE – By Sunil Thenabadu Image Source :dailymirror ( captured from many sites facts not known to many) One of the most influential articulated persons in the political arena today is undeniably Dissanayake Mudiyanselage  Anura Kumara Dissanayake who was born on 24th November 1968 as the second child to the surveying  labourer father Dissanayake Mudiyanselage Ranbanda and  mother Seelawathie who has a solitary elder daughter. The humble family unit  had dwelled  in  Galewela  when Anura was born in a maternity home in the village of Makulgaswewa. In the year 1972 the family had moved from village Dewahuwa Wewa in Galewela to the village Andiagala close to Kekirawa at which time Anura had been only four years old which village belonged to the Thambuththegama Mahaweli H region. The first school of young Anura was the ...

Oct 5, 2024 Posted by In Articles, Sunil Thenabadu Tagged , , , , , ,
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Sri Lanka’s president says IMF talks nearing successful end Image Source : washingtonpost Source : wtop COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s president said Tuesday that his bankrupt country’s talks with the International Monetary Fund for a rescue package have successfully reached final stages as he presented an amended budget that seeks to tame inflation and hike taxes. President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is also the finance minister, said in a speech in Parliament that his government will soon start negotiating debt restructuring with countries that provide loans to Sri Lanka. Declaring that Sri Lanka is on the “correct course in the short term for recovery,” Wickremesinghe warned the country must prepare for at least 25 years of a national economic policy, staring with the 2023 budget. An IMF team is visiting Sri Lanka and is expected to end the current round of talks on Wednesday. Prior to the visit, the IMF ...

Aug 31, 2022 Posted by In Articles Tagged , , , ,
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