By Dr Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu The above excerpts need no elucidation. They are from two telephone conversations between the Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the Editor of the Sunday Leader Frederica Jansz as reported in the Sunday Leader of 08 July 2012.
Archive of entries posted on 11th July 2012
Is there anything left of The Left in Sri Lanka?
By Alex Rajasinghe Once upon a time there was the CP, LSSP and other parties and they called themselves socialists. But, most of them like N.M. Perera, Colvin R. De Silva, Leslie Gunewardane, Peter Kenueman, Bernard Soyza belonged to a different class and their education was different. They never could be real socialists however much [...]
What is Burning in our Education System and How can we put out the Fire?
By Fr. Mervyn Fernando The recent furore over the validity of Z-scores in the A-level examination is very symptomatic of the current malaise of Education in the country – the tip of the iceberg. So it is not surprising that the past few weeks have seen many articles in the newspapers expressing serious concerns about [...]
Thirteenth Amendment Plus means creation of a Senate says President Rajapaksa
by R.K. Radhakrishnan Elections to Sri Lanka’s northern provincial council will take just over a year from now. “We want to hold elections in September 2013,” President Mahinda Rajapaksa told The Hindu. “We are working towards it [the elections] in a systematic manner.” In an interaction at his official residence, Temple Trees, here, Mr. Rajapaksa [...]
My Recent Visit to East Confirmed that the Govt has Indeed Worked Wonders There
by Prof Rajiva Wijesinha MP I had not been in the East for several months, not least because the North seemed to need much more attention in terms of my work as Adviser on Reconciliation. However, with the system of Divisional Secretariat Reconciliation Committees functioning informatively, if not always effecfively, I thought I should pay [...]
