News
President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s gift for Prince Charles’ 65th birthday, which he will celebrate in Colombo, will be a fine collection of kavun and kokis. Prince Charles…
With stray dogs being rounded up to clean up…
Sports
Perhaps the most appealing quality of the Nondescripts Cricket Club is the fundamental philosophy enshrined in its name. Nondescripts. It succinctly informs all its cricketers…
There is no doubt that when you enter the pavilion…
Business Times
Sri Lankans are divided in their view on whether the Commonwealth Leaders Summit (CHOGM) next week will bring the necessary economic and investment benefits to…
Tax holidays for some 266 operating Board of Investment (BOI)…
Sunday Times E-Paper
Editorial
It’s ‘All Systems Go’ for CHOGM 2013. The Government has shooed away all those wanting to have conferences during this period, held its rehearsals and is furiously overseeing the last-minute dressing up of the city of Colombo for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting this week. The preparations are akin…
Columns
Campaign by dissident group ends where it began; Premadasa’s handlers fail to achieve agendas Party leader gives 19 powers to new Leadership Council; Mangala wants focus on national…
My Dear Karu, I thought I must write to you when I heard that you have been appointed to head what is called a ‘Leadership Council’ for the…
The rising debt burden would be a serious constraint to sustained economic growth. The government should therefore be more prudent in borrowing foreign funds; they should be on…
Last Monday morning around 10, the Nelun Pokuna Mahinda Rajapaksa Theatre was a hive of activity and the buzz was when Britain’s ‘Prince Charles’ arrived at the venue.…
With the release of a video clip from Channel 4 television’s ‘No Fire Zone’ documentary, showing footage of what the British channel said was the arrest by Sri…
Even as Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa rises from his seat this Friday to address the Commonwealth Heads of Government and looks at the carefully prepared speech couched in…
Plus
My parents, George Keyt and Ruth Jansz, married at St Mary’s Church, Kurunegala in 1930. I was born in September 1935. When I was five months old my…
Talking war crimes: Here’s what your ancestors did Mr. Cameron Given the unending torrent of unsubstantiated accusations against our security forces and the abuse resorted to against the…
To a brave and loving sister | Rohini Aluvihare I yearned in the last few months to come and be within your radius dear Rohini Akka – to learn…
Tintagel Castle, off the coast of Cornwall in southeast England, was the home of King Arthur, so legend says. Tintagel is also the name of the grand house…
Magazine
After only a short while in Peter Kuruvita’s company you lose count of the anecdotes you’ve heard about his erratic and atypically Sri Lankan side…
Sports
Perhaps the most appealing quality of the Nondescripts Cricket Club is the fundamental philosophy enshrined in…
Sunday Times 2
Prince Charles — ‘rosy, plump, healthy and bawling’ and ‘with a fair fluff of hair’, according…
Business Times
Sri Lankans are divided in their view on whether the Commonwealth Leaders Summit (CHOGM) next week…