Following parliamentary elections, President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa wasted no time in obtaining cabinet approval and thereafter gazetting the proposed 20th Amendment to the 1978 Constitution...
By Namini Wijedasa.
Nearly 120 State-owned companies including the debt-ridden SriLankan Airlines will be exempt from Government audit under the proposed 20th Amendment to the...
As public concern over Sri Lanka’s draft 20th Amendment to the Constitution increases exponentially since this amendment was gazetted on 2nd September 2020, so do the...
The Sri Lanka Audit Inspectors’ Association claims the proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution causes great damage to the independence of the Auditor General.
The...
Operationality of RTI at risk
Removal of Audit Commission impairs monitoring of public spending
CIABOC’s investigative powers compromised
Election Commission restricted from acting against public property misuse
Transparency International...
The proposed 20th Amendment to the Constitution makes several significant changes to the present Constitution, altering the dynamics of the separation of powers between...
“Have you learned nothing from history?” – Freud (The Future of an Illusion)
This day, 27 years ago, Sri Lanka was burning.
During Black July, Sinhala...
Ahisma Wickrematunge has filed a complaint against Senior Superintendent of Police W.Thilakaratna for attempting to aid Udayanga Weerathunga to escape arrest, at the Commission...
Image: Kapila Chandrasena & Nishantha Wickramasinghe.
The Board of Inquiry on Sri Lankan Airlines.
The Board of Inquiry was appointed on 16th February 2015 . Its...
An insightful writer I follow had written that the corruption revealed in the Airbus case, technically described as a deferred prosecution agreement, is intrinsic...
Image: SSP Shani Abeysekara.
Former Director of the CID, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Shani Abeysekara has lodged a complaint today (28) claiming that he...
This National Policy Framework (NPF) of the government constitutes of 10 key policies aimed at achieving the fourfold outcome of a productive citizenry, a...
“The tragic paradox of the electoral route to authoritarianism is that democracy’s assassins use the very institutions of democracy – gradually, subtly, and even...
Image: UNP Prime Minister (Ranil Wickremesinghe) and his inner coterie had not robbed the Central Bank of Sri Lanka ...
As Sri Lanka’s Presidential election counts...
NPP candidate launches manifesto titled ‘Hope of a Nation’
Strengthening democracy and rule of law, ensuring corruption free administration prioritised
Public security and...
The JVP candidate Anura Kumara Dissanayake, supported by the National People’s Power (NPP), undoubtedly is well ahead of all other candidates in terms of...
Cartoon by @tmdsbekanayaka
“Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance” – Oscar Wilde.
Elections are here, time for pacts, pledges and promises – the...
Wimal Fernando.
The two major parties, namely the SLPP and the UNF have announced Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Sajith Premadasa respectively as their presidential candidates. The...
Image: Gotabhaya Rajapaksa ( Al Jazeera)
(REUTERS) In a split decision, a panel of five Supreme Court judges rejected a petition by Rajapaksa, who had...
Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) believes the controversy surrounding the proposed USD 3.85 billion oil refinery in Mirijjawila, Hambantota, could have a negative impact...
Speaker of House Karu Jayasuriya today informed Parliament that President Maithripala Sirisena’s statement in Parliament last evening, claiming that the Constitutional Council disregarded seniority...
The controversial ‘MiG Deal’ remains in the public spotlight as evidence continues to surface of the Rajapaksa Government’s complicity in engineering the dubious 2006...
Commission will cover period between Jan. 2015 to Dec. 2018.
Retired SC judge will head five member Commission.
Probe will cover acts of corruption, fraud, criminal...
Sri Lanka’s former Ambassador to the United States Jaliya Wickramasuriya is likely to be offered a proffer agreement by US federal prosecutors this week,...
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Presidential Secretariat has not responded to repeated requests from a Commission of Inquiry probing irregularities at state-run SriLankan Airlines and...
November 9, 2018.
WASHINGTON—Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee; Rep. Dina Titus, Co-Chair of the Sri Lanka Caucus; and Rep. David...
Public Statement on the Government management of the COVID-19 response
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis, that is still evolving. Despite early efforts that...
Calling of the President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka to condemn the police action in the strongest possible terms, the attorney representing...
Member of Parliament, TNA MP M. Sumanthran has presented a Private Member's Bill for the enactment of the "Public Health Emergency Act".
One week earlier...
Police, Judicial Officers Should End Arbitrary Arrests, Torture of LGBT People
(Colombo / October 20, 2020) – Sri Lankan authorities have subjected at least seven people...
