Strong asset and other income growth combined with an emphasis on prudent provisioning in one of the most challenging years...
PCoI on Easter Sunday attacks: By Shamindra Ferdinando Attorney General Dappula de Livera, PC is not bound by recommendations made...
Party leaders in parliament have asked the government several times to table it in the House but the government has...
by Malinda Seneviratne If something deserves to be called ‘Event of the Week’ it would be the ‘Pothuvil to Poligandy...
by Vijaya Chandrasoma February was recognized as the month to celebrate the history and achievements of the African American people...
by Malinda Seneviratne There’s a bill currently at the ‘Committee Stage’ in the UK’s House of Lords which that country’s...
by Malinda Seneviratne Last week we wrote that it’s time for the Geneva Circus and that it would come with...
by Malinda Seneviratne Circus Pacifica, Apollo Circus and of course the amazing Chinese Circus — readers of an earlier generation...
by Malinda Seneviratne Over the last few weeks there has been a concerted campaign in social media attacking President Gotabaya...
* Covid-19 continues to dominate headlines * 20A now legally effective but inadequate * Focus shifts from CC to Article...
by C.A. Chandraprema That the 20th Amendment was passed does not come as a surprise. That some opposition MPs voted...
by C.A.Chandraprema The drafting of the new constitution to replace the 1978 constitution has begun even before the 20th Amendment...
Chairman – Priyantha Fernando and Executive Director/CEO Krishan Thilakaratne Commercial Leasing and Finance PLC (CLC) concluded FY2019/20 on an impressive note, consistently performing well year on...
By Lynn Ockersz Cavernous vehicles roar past,Nameless bread winners,Standing gape-mouthed on side walks;Their limbs limp with fast-creeping fear,For hulking shadowy figures,Bunched behind the whizzing tinted glass…...
August 20, 2020, parliament: President Gotabaya Rajapaksa delivers his policy statement. By Shamindra Ferdinando Lawmaker Gajendrakumar Ponnanbalam, 46, on August 21, in Parliament, alleged that the...
By ROHANA R. WASALA In my opinion, Ven. Athuraliye Ratana and Ven. Galaboda-aththe Gnanasara were following two different lines of activism in the arena of inclusive...
By Shamindra Ferdinando Education Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris says the new government cannot move forward due to the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. Prof. Peiris,...
In my letter in The Island captioned “Best Leave the President to his Task”, I concluded “When narcotics sleuths sell themselves to drug barons etc., this...
Fisheries Minister Douglas Devananda has flayed Jaffna District lawmaker C.V. Wigneswaran for taking a hostile stand at the inauguration of the 9th parliament and during the debate...
