By Gwynne Dyer A glance at the history of nuclear weapons manufacture shows that all 11 countries that wished to build bombs did so within three...
By Dr Janaka Ratnasiri I thank Eng. Anton Nanayakkara (AN)’s write-up in The Island of 28.07.2020, responding to my article on Flood Protection of Colombo Metropolitan...
by JUSTIN KEPPETIYAGAMA jdkgama02@gmail.com Speaking at a series of election rallies in Trincomalee and Kinniya, on July 19, former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said he...
President Donald Trump, whose nonsense about the spread of Covid-19 in the US, is now using the major disaster it has caused, to get the coming...
Reading the articles published in The Island over the last few weeks, it seems that most of the political analysts, regardless of the party they support,...
by Rajan Philips The country has been on its marks for nearly five months for Wednesdays election. There have been false starts given the long wait....
PERSON WOMAN MAN CAMERA TV by Vijaya Chandrasoma If you can identify an elephant or a hippo from a picture, or count backwards from 100 in...
28th death anniversary commutation Twenty Eight years ago, on 8th August 1992 , a bomb that exploded in an Army Land Rover at Araly Point took...
JUST AS ARROGANT & AS INCOMPETENT AS DONALD . . . by Selvam Canagaratna “The qualities we have do not make us so ridiculous as those...
In August what we need is a new Parliament. Recently when there was a demand mainly from politicians to reconvene the old Parliament, the people themselves...