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| Govt. loses Rs. |
| 2012-12-28 |
The government has suffered a loss of Rs. 60.8 mn due to the import of school uniform material through a private import in spite of state-owned Salu Sala making a much better offer.
Authoritative sources told The Island that the government was to obtain 50 per cent of the total requirement locally and import the rest from China. Sources said that in line with government directive, education authorities were to import 5, 105,000 metres of material for shirts and frocks, 2, 50,000 metres of white trouser material a
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| IOM assists with flood relief efforts in Sri Lanka |
| 2012-12-28 |
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Sri Lanka - The holiday season in Sri Lanka has been marked by heavy rains, high winds and landslides affecting 315,000 people in 20 districts through the country. The hardest hit district is Batticoloa in the Eastern Province with over 229,000 people affected. The police and military are conducting rescue missions where needed and the government is providing cooked meals to those who have been displaced by the storms. 13, been reported by the government’s Disaster Management Centre as fully or partially damaged.
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| Vehicle racket exposed |
| 2012-12-28 |
A Dolphin van which was taken on lease from a rent a car service in Mount Lavinia a month ago was recovered by the Organised Crime and Corruption Division of the Mount Lavinia police on Christmas Eve after it was abandoned on the road.
The police said that those involved in an organised vehicle racket are now in police custody and they were responsible for the theft of this van as well. The gang members after stealing the vehicle, had prepared false documents and sold it to an unsuspecting buyer in Hambantota and
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| Acts Of Unreserved Surrender By Our Leaders? |
| 2012-12-28 |
Acts of Unreserved Surrender by Our Leaders?
A Total Abdication Leads to the Sacrifice of Our Rights
“Our leaders, by acts of unreserved surrender, have abdicated their accountability to us and totally sacrificed our rights before those in governance” was a pathetic cry heard recently from the wilderness, in a stage play that is in public performance currently. An unknown source is attributed to have narrated the moral of the story as the play came to an end “The
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| Racing Tanks with Bicycles: A Parable of ‘Reconciliation’ in Sri Lanka |
| 2012-12-28 |
Some photographs of ‘aid’ being provided to Sri Lankan Tamils in Keppapilavu were recently posted online. The Keppapilavu community were the last to be released from the Menik Farm Camp, but were not allowed to return home, and instead were forcibly re-displaced into the wilderness. The aid was being provided by a youth group called ‘Sri Lanka Unites’ – whose objective is to promote reconciliation in Sri Lanka, in collaboration with the ‘Foundation of Goodness’ – a charity set up by a few Sri
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| Suppression of Jaffna University students continue; three more students summoned by TID |
| 2012-12-27 |
Jaffna University students have to face an endless list of questions from the Terrorism Investigations Department (TID).
The latest targets of the TID are university students and the number of students being interrogated keeps increasing everyday. Three more students had been summoned to the Vavuniya TID office on the 24th for questioning.
A Jaffna University lecturer said that since the arrest of university students including the Secretary of the Jaffna University Students’ Union
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| Sending Jaffna University students fro rehabilitation is illegal –Sumanthiran |
| 2012-12-27 |
TNA MP M.A. Sumanthiran says that sending Jaffna University students for rehabilitation was illegal.
He has told a news conference in Colombo that sending the students for rehabilitation without presenting them before court was illegal. He has said that the students had been arrested without any kind of order.
He has observed that the government had claimed the students had volunteered to undergo rehabilitation and that the manner in which young Tamil women has been recruited to the arm
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| Increase of crimes and constitutional tomfoolery - Basil Fernando |
| 2012-12-27 |
The construction of a government that prevents one person becoming the prey of another can be said to be the aim of constitutionalism. Ever since Montesquieu, the greatest of political thinkers and statesmen have struggled to develop principles to achieve this aim of preventing citizens becoming prey of rulers who rule not for the purpose of achieving the greater good for the people, but to enrich themselves at the expense of the nation. The foundations of most of constitutions developed to achieve this aim are based on the work of John Lo
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| AHRC critiques 'squealer's function' of State media |
| 2012-12-27 |
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has issued a statement critiquing some of the views expressed through 'People's Power,' a radio programme aired by the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation (SLBC) on 24 December.
The statement alleged the programme's commentator had labelled America's greatest judge a 'cunning' and 'devious' person, and one of the most respected retired judges of the Supreme Court, C.V. Vigneshwaran, a schizophrenic.
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| Girl from Canada murdered in Jaffna |
| 2012-12-26 |
A 30 year old girl who had recently arrived in Jaffna from Canada to marry an EPDP activist at Puttur North, has been found murdered.
Until their marriage in the first week of next month, Kalaimagal had been staying with a relative.
Relatives found her burnt body, with knife injuries to the neck, and her gold jewellery missing.
Originally from Colombo, she had departed after he parents died in an accident and had been staying
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