The people of Sri Lanka have proved time and again that they favour the abolition of the executive presidency, since they have supported every presidential candidate who has promised to scrap the office since 1994, said Counsel for petitioners intervening in support of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution in the Supreme Court on Friday (14).President’s Counsel M.A. Sumanthiran, who serves as Counsel...
Commenting on President Maithripala Sirisena’s statement to renegotiate accountability obligations, a senior Foreign Ministry official said Sri Lanka may have to renegotiate Resolution 30/1 with the co-group that sponsored the Resolution in 2015, if it is to get a fresh set of recommendations approved by the UN rights body recalling the former resolution.President Sirisena addressing media heads on Friday...
Head-hunted gamekeeper turns poacher and branded ‘stupid’...
Just when almost everything appeared to be brought under control and Sri Lanka’s cricketing stables on the threshold of a hyped-up change, the seemingly relative peace was shattered when the Chief Financial Officer of Sri Lanka Cricket directed its commercial partner Sony Television to deposit 5.5 million US dollars to a bank in Hong Kong in what some analysts say was the “widest ball ever bowled”.The...
The Hambantota industrial port project is in need of skilled employees to fill up to 5,000 vacancies opening up over the next five years. However, port officials are now facing a drawback as there are few people ‘in the area who could live up to expectations’ of the future employers, a senior port official said. Over the next five years, Hambantota port and the industrial zone project will need to hire 3,...
