Archive for September, 2006
Dhanapala withdraws from UN race
Top career diplomat Jayantha Dhanapala, Sri Lanka’s candidate for the post of United Nation’s Secretary General is withdrawing from the race, the country’s Permanent Mission in New York announced yesterday.
In a statement the Mission said, the Government of Sri Lanka had consistently held the view that the next Secretary-General of the UN should be an [...]
UNP-JVP in for talks
UNP leader gives go-ahead, appoints four-member
committee
Lalkantha [...]
TNA MPs stage satyagraha in House
The TNA MPs yesterday staged a satyagraha in Parliament to protest the grave humanitarian crisis in the North-East particularly in [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Prostitutes, bearhugs and humbugs
My dear Mahinda Aiya,
Peace [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Appoint a stooge and ruin the country
The government has come under fire for its oscillation over the appointment of a new Auditor General (AG). It is about [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Of those practitioners of the oldest profession
It was only the other day that we referred to the karapincha–curry leaves, which are discarded after use–method in politics. There [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Why Mahinda maama took a beeeeeg delegation to New York
By Rypvanwinkle
“Thaaththa,” Bindu Udagedera [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Transparency Intl. renews warning on poor governance
Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) yesterday renewed its warning that the governance and democracy levels in the country were deteriorating and called for urgent action by all parties concerned to re-dress the situation.
In a statement TISL said there was a fast deterioration in the processes of governance at vital public institutions in the country. “Waste [...]
Lanka most militarised state in S. Asia: Study
Successive governments and the LTTE are both to be blamed for the sorry state of affairs
No other country has faced the kind of challenges that the LTTE has posed to the Sri Lankan government.
The LTTE spends a minimum on its cadres and the maximum on
sustaining a war economy and its support base internationally
By P. K. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )‘Wars cannot last forever :They cannot be sustained’
By Nikhil Mustaffa
The setting had been the Banquet hall of the Office of the President. The occasion had been a meeting with I/NGO’s on coordination of humanitarian assistance which was not an essential pre-occupation up to the Tsunami and after the ceasefire. It became an absolute necessity very recently.
The audience was representative.
A young [...]
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