The Channel 4 documentary on the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings did not reveal much information that was not already known, but it has...

An Andalusian Court recently awarded a woman more than 200,000 euros, calculated at minimum wage for the 25 years of unpaid domestic work...

Shamindrini Sivananthan He closed his eyes and breathed in deeply, remembering the first time he had come to Galle Face. It had been in...

At long last, he is begging for forgiveness. After doggedly refusing to acknowledge responsibility for any part of the 2019 Easter Sunday...

He refuses to accept responsibility for the greatest carnage that occurred under his watch and now wants the people to help pay the...

The Rajapaksa clan and their boot lickers are used to one thing only; hero worship by a gullible public who dubbed one brother, Mahinda,...

Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith, for long preached and waged a strong campaign to return a Rajapaksa-led government to power. He has been an...

When Gotabhaya Rajapaksa won the Sri Lankan Presidency in November 2019, there was much rejoicing. The hero of the Sinhala Buddhist...

Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana lost his life in the most gruesome manner. The father of two, an Engineer by profession, was the General...

When a ferry capsized in Kinniya on November 23, Namal Rajapaksa, the Minister for Many Affairs, tweeted out his condolences. Deeply...

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka is heading for a perfect storm around the end of the year as political and community opposition to the government...

Mala* is a 35 year old seamstress. Her husband has a complicated medical history and has now partially lost his sight. He used to be the...

Two weeks ago, Nusra* lost her uncle. He was the latest in her family to succumb to the dreaded Covid and was one of three relatives to...

On August 22nd Catholics raised black flags in their homes and other establishments. Five months ago, the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka...

For more than a year lawyer Hejaaz Hizbullah and poet Ahnaf Jazeem have been languishing in prison. Arrested in April 2020, Human Rights...

Covid-19 has played havoc with the world order, but for the Gotabaya Rajapaksa regime, it is a Godsend! And so, instead of the usual...

"We do not need vaccines we have other methods of controlling it." That was Vasudeva Nanayakkara thundering in parliament one day in...

2019 recorded the highest number of elephant deaths in Sri Lanka. And though 2020 had a better record, with 83 elephants dying in the...

When in late March Sri Lanka was unable to marshall enough support to defeat the United Nations Human Rights Council's (UNHRC) Promoting...