A presidential election will precede a parliamentary election early next year according to confidantes of President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is believed likely to invoke the constitutional provision enabling him to seek re-election four years after he was sworn as president for a six-year term on Nov. 19, 2005.The president can under the constitution issue a proclamation seeking re-election any time after November 19 this year although he has two more years of his term to serve and present indications are that he will utilize this opportunity to ride the...
Archbishop Rt. Rev. Dr. Malcolm Ranjith officiating
at the High Mass of the annual feast of Our Lady of Madhu yesterday.
Also in the picture are (From left to right): Rt. Rev. Dr. Thomas
Saundaranayagam, the Bishop of Jaffna, Archbishop Emeritus Rt. Rev.
Dr. Oswald Gomis and Rt. Rev. Dr. Rayappu Joseph, the Bishop of
Mannar.
(Pic by Jude Denzil Pathiraja in Madhu)
Senator on conditions here
Ambassador Jaliya Wickremasuriya, Sri Lanka’s envoy in
Washington, last week met with Senator Robert Casey (D-Pa.), the
Chairman of Senate’s Foreign Relations Sub Committee on Near Eastern and
South and Central Asian Affairs when Sri Lanka’s efforts mend fences
among communities and conditions in the IDP camps were discussed.
Kotelawala’s one billion
rupee cash infusion awaited to start repayment process
With the Golden Key re-payment plan expected to be
placed before the Supreme Court on September 1, the Central Bank is
still awaiting the infusion of an initial one billion rupees by Ceylinco
Chairman Lalith Kotelawala to set in motion the vital process of
settling depositors.
