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PostForum: Discuss News Articles   Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2010 12:33 am   Subject: Rise Silent Majority, Rise Now Or Sleep Forever

AN APPEAL TO FELLOW CITIZENS

We have witnessed thirty years of armed conflict and the erosion of democratic values entrenched in the first post-independence Constitution. The end of the armed confl ...
PostForum: Discuss News Articles   Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 2:56 pm   Subject: Sri Lanka Remittances May Rise to Record $3.8 Billion After

Is Sri Lanka going to become next Philippine of Asia (instead of a Singapore)?
Philippine gets over $10b remittances a year.
PostForum: Discuss News Articles   Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 2:43 pm   Subject: Sri Lanka Cabinet OKs 3rd term for president

Paba to support 18th AmendmentSeptember 7, 2010 06:02 pm
Gampaha District United National Party Upeksha Swarnamali, popularly known as Paba met President Mahinda Rajapaksa a short while ago and pled ...
PostForum: Discuss News Articles   Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 11:09 am   Subject: Sri Lanka Cabinet OKs 3rd term for president

Our country is famous for its short sighted politicians.....but at least the people need to think beyond that......we need to think beyond MR, RW or Sajith......the constitution is more important than ...
PostForum: Discuss News Articles   Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2010 10:53 am   Subject: President indicates Mervyn will be reappointed Dy Minister

President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday at a meeting with editors and heads of media institutions indicated that the controversial UPFA MP would be reinstated as Deputy Minister of Highways because an S ...
PostForum: Discuss News Articles   Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 11:39 am   Subject: Sri Lanka Cabinet OKs 3rd term for president

The Commissions referred to here are the Election Commission, the Public Service Commission, the National Police Commission, the Human Rights Commission, the Permanent Commission to Investigate Allega ...
PostForum: Discuss News Articles   Posted: Mon Sep 06, 2010 5:03 am   Subject: Sri Lanka Cabinet OKs 3rd term for president

MAC1, Romeo answered your question.
PostForum: Discuss News Articles   Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 6:56 am   Subject: Sri Lanka Cabinet OKs 3rd term for president

When comes to an amendment in the constitution, the Supreme Court will determine whether referendum is required.
well, who elects chief justice of supreme court ? president himself ?.
PostForum: Discuss News Articles   Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2010 5:43 am   Subject: Sri Lanka Cabinet OKs 3rd term for president

Mahinda’s 18th Amendment is effectively a red sash around the Constitution. It eliminates the (imaginary) checks on presidential power written in the 17th Amendment and gives the President unbridled p ...
PostForum: General Discussion   Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 11:54 am   Subject: Constitutional changes in Sri Lanka: Cabaret Dance by Burqua

question is what’s his point?
well he illustrated in the 2nd para his point in the heading.
In any country that is worth her salt, constitutions are conceived, debated and written by thinking, far- ...
PostForum: Discuss News Articles   Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:09 am   Subject: Civil servants protest after minister orders official tied t


At this rate, we will not be surprised if the UPFA government full of King Kekille's descendants who have cleared Mervyn, decide to punish the man who planted the tree to which the Samurdhi animator ...
PostForum: General Discussion   Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 2:45 pm   Subject: Constitutional changes in Sri Lanka: Cabaret Dance by Burqua

Read the full article and think yourself whether he had written anything incorrect in the whole article.
PostForum: General Discussion   Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 2:44 pm   Subject: Constitutional changes in Sri Lanka: Cabaret Dance by Burqua

We have glimpses of the unimportant among the constitutional changes contemplated. However, what has been revealed is not what we need.

It is like watching an awkward, Burqa-clad cabaret dancer, de ...
PostForum: Discuss News Articles   Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:05 am   Subject: Sri Lanka Cabinet OKs 3rd term for president

Well, when SWRD was assassinated, Mrs.Bandaranaike (Sirimavo) became the precedent. If MR dies, Namal is there and Mervin de Silva too has all the credentials I guess!
as per the constitution change ...
PostForum: Discuss News Articles   Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 10:50 am   Subject: Civil servants protest after minister orders official tied t

Supper findings by the committee.
It will be interesting to find MR’s decision.
mango tree is guilty.
it would interesting to find what would be the punishment for the mango tree.
 
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