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By Azra Ameen Riots and violence inside prisons are not novel occurrences in Sri Lanka. It was only in January this year that a group of inmates at the Welikada Prison rioted, and in the events that ensued, 26 inmates and several prison guards were injured. This raised a number of questions about the state [...]

by Camelia Nathaniel For the first time in the history of power generation in the country three consecutive monsoon seasons have failed, plunging the country into a severe power crisis. However, Minister of Power and Energy Patali Champika Ranawaka said that in spite of the lack of rains and the dwindling water levels in the [...]

By Col R Hariharan Sri Lanka air force personnel who had completed part of their technical training at Air Force Station, Tambaram, Chennai were taken off the course and sent to Bangalore after Ms Jayalalitha, the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, raised a hue and cry over their presence in Tamil Nadu. The irrepressible chief [...]

By G.T. Ketharanathan The Colombo SAARC Cultural Centre, which hosted the SAARC Film Festival 2011 once again extended its hospitality for the SAARC Film Festival 2012. The big day was celebrated with all enthusiasm in Colombo on 16 May at the National Film Corporation Cinema Hall. SAARC member countries, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and [...]

by Tissa Ravindra Perera Last week, the international Tamil Eelam movement attempted to raise their heads at the Vavuniya prison, where a number of LTTE terrorist suspects are being held. The operation was to hold some prison officers hostage and take full control of the prison. The prison premises located on a 40-perch land was [...]

by Frederica Jansz Defence Secretary, Gotabaya Rajapaksa went berserk when contacted by The Sunday Leader to clarify and find out if he was aware that the management at SriLankan Airlines had taken a decision to change a wide bodied A340 scheduled to fly to Zurich on Friday July 13, to a smaller A330. The change [...]

By Tisaranee Gunasekara Never had anyone been at once so ridiculous and so powerful”.Roberto Calasso (The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony) Last week, a group of Lankan airmen found themselves in the middle of a politico-diplomatic storm. Furious at the Centre’s unilateral decision to provide technological training to the Lankan airmen at the Tambaram air [...]

by Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka Dr.Wickramabahu Karunaratne gets more things wrong than right, and he does exaggerate, but he hardly ever lies wittingly. Therefore I have no reason to disbelieve the following extract from his column in the LAKBIMAnEWS of July 1, reporting a meeting in Matara. “MP Sumanthiran was the special speaker at this meeting…Sumanthiran explained [...]

By Namini Wijedasa In the learning of English in Sri Lanka, the divide between the haves and the have-nots is growing, warned Michael Meyler, author of A Dictionary of Sri Lankan English. In June, Meyler was awarded the title of a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services he provided to [...]

By Ranga Jayasuriya Tamil detainee Ganesan Nimalaruban who died on Wednesday (4) was allegedly brutally assaulted by prison officials, denied medical attention, kept in the prison hospital, despite the instructions by a prison doctor to transfer him immediately to the Ragama teaching hospital, and now the magistrate has refused to release the corpse of the [...]

-How Ammi became Mahinda’s Coordinating Secretary -Why She Respects Sarath Fonseka -Having Govt Ministers at Father’s Statue opening -Her open conversation with Namal Rajapaksa By Namini Wijedasa Hirunika Premachandra, the daughter of assassinated SLFP politician Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra, is unhappy that her mother recently accepted a coordinating secretary position from President Mahinda Rajapaksa but said [...]