News Room : CIPE and COSMI assist communities displaced by Southern Expressway
By Ifham Nizam Through a pilot advocacy initiative funded by the Centre for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the Confederation of Micro Small and Medium Industries (COSMI) reached out to help the local community overcome the current crisis, through a novel advocacy initiative to assist those among it displaced by large -scale infrastructure (LSI) projects. The intervention sought to assist the ‘Kaludodol’...
News Room : Mahanamahewa flays ‘parliamentary system’ over contempt of SC issue – The Island
BASL says ‘it is a matter entirely for the House’ By Shamindra Ferdinando Prof. Prathiba Mahanamahewa of the Colombo University Law Faculty, yesterday, lambasted the double standards in dealing with lawmakers over contempt of court, which, too, tended to erode public confidence in the parliamentary system. The Attorney-at-Law said so referring to the sentencing of Gampaha District MP Ranjan Ramanayake (SJB) to four years...
News Room : Mrs. Nicol’s Century – The Island
By George Braine My father was the youngest of nine children. They grew up not far from Negombo, in their mother’s ancestral village of Boralessa. With time, for employment and marriage, the siblings moved away, three to the Kandy area, the extended family meeting only rarely. Aunty Alice had begun working as a teacher and had later turned to nursing; three...
News Room : Sirisena claims SLFP now attracting a better class of politicians – The Island
BASL says ‘it is a matter entirely for the House’ By Shamindra Ferdinando Prof. Prathiba Mahanamahewa of the Colombo University Law Faculty, yesterday, lambasted the double standards in dealing with lawmakers over contempt of court, which, too, tended to erode public confidence in the parliamentary system. The Attorney-at-Law said so referring to the sentencing of Gampaha District MP Ranjan Ramanayake (SJB) to four years...
News Room : FSP frowns on increases in defence expenditure – The Island
BASL says ‘it is a matter entirely for the House’ By Shamindra Ferdinando Prof. Prathiba Mahanamahewa of the Colombo University Law Faculty, yesterday, lambasted the double standards in dealing with lawmakers over contempt of court, which, too, tended to erode public confidence in the parliamentary system. The Attorney-at-Law said so referring to the sentencing of Gampaha District MP Ranjan Ramanayake (SJB) to four years...
News Room : Another huge waste of money is uncovered.
An audit report reveals that the Ministry of Finance has spent nearly ten crores in 2018 to inform the public about the budget and the two-year freedom of the media through electronic and print media. It also states that seven crore thirty nine lakhs (7,38,92,963*) have been spent on creating and advertising advertisements to inform the public about the budget. The...
News Room : CID questions Semini over connection to Thilini Priyamali
The Criminal Investigation Department has interrogated and obtained a statement for nearly 4 hours from popular film and television actress Semini Iddamalgoda for the investigation regarding Thilini Priyamali, who is currently remanded over a large-scale financial fraud. The actress had been summoned by the CID who had arrived along with her husband, Dhammika Iddamalgoda who is also a Police officer. Officers...
News Room : Derana slammed for using ‘Jenny’ a near-threatened species of parrot as gimmick
Environmentalists have slammed the Derana TV channel for their recent use of a ‘Near Threatened’ species of parrot in one of its cricket-related program recently. Taking to his personal Facebook page, environmentalist Supun Jayaweera identified the parrot called ‘Jenny’ as an Alexandrine parakeet (Psittacula eupatria) known as a ‘Labu Girawa’ in the local dialect. According to Jayaweera, Jenny’s species is...
News Room : US embassy official robbed in Colombo
A female US embassy official has been robbed on the streets of Colombo. The woman had been walking down a street in the Cinnamon Gardens area when two men on a motorbike snatched her handbag, it is reported. The Police have commenced an investigation into the matter after the victim had complained of the handbag snatching incident to IGP C.D...
News Room : S Korea in national mourning after deadly Halloween crowd crush – The Island
151 people including 19 foreigners killed (Korea Herald/ANN) Relatives search for missing family members following a crowd crush in Seoul’s Itaewon that killed 151 people, including 19 foreigners.South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has declared a period of national mourning following a deadly Halloween crush in the country’s capital, Seoul, as distraught relatives flocked to the city’s hospitals searching for their missing family...