මූන්ට හෝ මූන්ගේ කමිටුවට හෝ බැණවැදීම අර්බුදයට විසඳුමක් වන්නේ නැත
If Sri Lanka fails to overcome the confusion the report of the Secretary-General’s advisory committee has created, and will go on creating, then all the great hopes the victory in the war gave the country will collapse. The government should make meeting this crisis with self-confidence the first and largest item on its political agenda.
ප්රඥාවන්ත ප්රවේශයක අවශ්යතාව
The recommendations of the panel of experts appointed by the UN Secretary-General may work as a factor damaging Sri Lanka’s progress, and the challenge arising from them may be as large as the one Prabhakaran posed and more complicated than that. It can still be settled to our advantage, or with the damage kept small, and doing that means changing the whole approach.
කප්පම් සංස්කෘතිය
After the government decided to move the St John’s fish market and the Manning market out of Pettah, an alternative wholesale fish market was built at Peliyagoda — and while traders were complaining that not all of them had been given stalls in it, an organised business of taking protection money from the fish traders at the new market was reported.
අභ්යන්තර කුළල් කාගැනීම්
Not having enough internal unity is a large challenge Sri Lanka faced in the past and faces now, and it can be seen not in one place but everywhere. The country needs a strong government, and equally an opposition with the strength to control a government’s wrong actions; there must be a contest between them, and there must also be a mutual understanding for the common good.
ජපාන ඛේදවාචකයෙන් ඉගෙන ගැනීම
The great disaster in Japan cannot but affect the world economy and, to a greater or lesser degree, Sri Lanka’s. What Ivan draws from it is a set of duties at home: protect what forest is left, since felling is a way a few businessmen make large money under political patronage, and stop treating that as the state’s business alone.
කිරි කළයට ගොම දැමීම
The prime minister told parliament during the emergency debate that the intelligence services had information about training at three secret camps in Tamil Nadu, aimed at killing Indian leaders and re-establishing the LTTE in Sri Lanka. If there is no true basis for it, Ivan replies, talk of that kind can do the country real harm — it can discourage the foreign investment Sri Lanka is hoping for.
මැතිවරණ සංස්කෘතිය
A pradeshiya sabha election is the lowest of the four tiers at which elections are held, and looking at what the candidates spend on campaigning it might be a parliamentary election. The public had the same unpleasant experience at the last provincial council poll: the salary of a provincial member is not large, and candidates who spent three or four hundred million were among those contesting.
සීසර්ගේ දේ සීසර්ටම දිය යුතුය
A member of the Tamil alliance charged in parliament that 200 of the 500 tractors India gave to farmers in the north had been handed to two state institutions. If that is true it is a wrong, and putting it right is the government’s responsibility. Resettlement and the projects planned for that region must be carried forward without a break, and life there brought back to normal quickly.
ආහාර අර්බුදයට මුහුණදීම
The heavy rain and the flooding it keeps producing have been destructive to the country’s food crops, and this is not a condition peculiar to Sri Lanka. 2011 has already been named a La Niña year, one in which heavy rainfall may do the world great damage, and China — the country with the world’s largest population — has been identified as facing a great drought.
ලංකා ඊ නිව්ස් කාර්යාලය ගිනි තැබීම
The savage attack on the Lanka e-News office should be condemned by the whole country: it is hard for it to have been done by anyone other than the government or people attached to it, and it disgraces not only the president and his government but the country. Ivan then says the other half of what he thinks, which is that the do-or-die reporting of many anti-government websites cannot be approved either.