Category: Politics

Dec 29,2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s main Muslim party, Sri Lanka Muslim Congress Sunday quit the government and pledged support to the opposition Candidate Maithripala Sirisena at the forthcoming Presidential Election, a media report said. Muslims, the second largest minority in the island after Hindu Tamils, account for about 10 percent. Sri Lanka Muslim Congress […]

Dec 24, 2014 (LBO) – Opposition’s common presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena said that the government had not given enough freedom for business community of Sri Lanka to do business activities and entertain only certain businesses who supported government policy regime. œNeither the OPEC nor any other international guru or super economist couldn’t predict the oil […]

Dec 24,2014 (LBO)- Sri Lanka’s opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe said that he would deal directly with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington instead of dealing with the ˜local jokers’ if they formed a new government. He made this comment speaking about the IMF Fund assessment which was okay with the exchange rate. œYou are […]

Dec 24, 2014 (LBO): Sri Lanka’s State-run SriLankan Airlines and Mihin Lanka, a budget airline had become White Elephants, destroying the money of the common man, common opposition Presidential candidate Maithripala Sirisena said. œMihin Air is a massive national robbery which has been done openly, Sirisena said at a business forum yesterday. œThis was done […]

Dec 23, 2014 (LBO) – UNP’s Karu Jayasuriya said that recent violent incidents targeting rallies and activists of the common opposition amply demonstrate the lack of democratic space under the dictatorial Rajapaksa regime. He said this issuing a statement yesterday. Media Statement Reproduced It is the best evidence of the urgent need to change course […]

UPFA Presidential candidate President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s election manifesto ˜Mahinda Chinthana Lowa Dinana Maga’ launched today at Colombo. Rajapaksa introduced his first manifesto at the 2005 Presidential election named Mahinda Chinthanaya and presented œMahinda Chinthana Idiri Dekma election manifesto for the 2010 Presidential election. The new manifesto launched today is based on the 2005 and 2010 […]

Dec 22, 2014, Sri Lanka opposition candidate Maithripala Sirisena has declared to cancel the casino licenses given to John Keells Holdings and Australian James Packer, who is in the casino business.Government announced its approval for corporate income tax holidays and import duty concessions on materials, on Feb this year for Lake Leisure Holdings (Private) Limited […]

Sri Lanka’s Presidential candidate former minister Maithripala Sirisena said that, all the parties should get together to make collective decisions in order to change the current governing system of Sri Lanka. He was speaking at the television programme named œSatana aired by Sirasa network yesterday. œWe want to make collective political decisions joining with all […]

Nov 22, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka freedom party (SLFP) appointed Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa, as the new Secretary General of the party by party’s Chairman President Mahinda Rajapaksa, a media report said. He was suspended from the SLFP by President Rajapaksa yesterday, a media report said. Anura Priyadarshana Yapa was the Vice Chairman of […]

Sep 22, 2014 (LBO) – Sri Lanka’s United Peoples Freedom Alliance, the ruling party in the island won the Uva Provincial Council Election with 19 seats while UNP, the main opposition secured 13 seats, data of Department of Election showed. Harin Fernando, UNP’s Uva Provincial Council candidate topped the preferential votes securing 173,993 votes and […]

COLOMBO, August 27, 2014 (AFP) – International rights groups have demanded protection for potential Sri Lankan witnesses at a UN-mandated war crimes investigation into the island’s ethnic war which ended five year ago.Six organisations in a joint letter expressed alarm over alleged intimidation, threats and reprisals against those likely to engage investigators probing the bloody […]

COLOMBO, August 18, 2014 (AFP) – Sri Lankan officials on Monday sought more time to exhume a suspected mass grave in a former war zone after failing to secure the services of forensic experts.Some of the Tamil guerrilla leaders linked to atrocities have defected to the government since the conflict ended, and there have been […]