Will Trump threaten a US pullout or de-fund the United Nations?
UNITED NATIONS (IPS) — Back in 1998, Senator Jesse Helms, a rightwing Republican from the US state of North Carolina, carried out a virulent one-man hate-campaign against the UN– and its very presence in New York. A fulltime chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee– and a part-time UN basher– Helms publicly complained that [...]
Importance of witness to crime
Witness to crime plays the most important role in the criminal justice process. Without witnesses, there can be no case, and crime will thrive. The prevailing criminal justice system, however, in effect, accords a witness to crime a degrading position in courts of law which spreads among the community too. Witness to crime has not [...]
Help save Bandula’s life
Journalist and former diplomat Bandula Jayasekara has been suffering from blood cancer for the past 14 months. He was planning to undergo bone marrow transplant in Singapore as it cannot be done in Sri Lanka. Well-wishers have been raising funds for his transplant. A donor was available. However, COVID-19 came in between and the transplant [...]
Air Force ex-servicemen AGM: Nominations before Sept. 28
The Air Force Ex-servicemen’s Association has called on its members to submit before September 28 nominations and proposals to be taken up at the next annual general meeting. The AGM will take place at the Eagle Lakeside Air Force reception hall in Attidiya at 10 a.m. on October 28. The nominations and proposals should be [...]
Aalul Mahfil Union elects Muzeena Ousmand as new President
The 88th Annual General Meeting of ‘Aalul Mahfil Union’ (AMU) was held on Sunday August 30 at the Padang Auditorium, Colombo Malay Cricket Club, Colombo 2. Muzeena Ousmand became only the second female to be elected President of AMU, the first being Shirley Amit, wife of Sagara Amit. Muzeena is the daughter of late Nazeem [...]
Segar holds 50th art exhibition
Well known artist Segar will hold his 50th solo exhibition at Rosmead Place by Thilanka next weekend- September 19 and 20. The exhibition is open from 9 a.m – 6 p.m. D. Rajasegar who signs his paintings as Segar started his career as a production clerk in a company, which produces soft drinks, frozen meats [...]
The revenge of the special relationship
NEW YORK – Seventy-five years ago, the prestige of the United States and the United Kingdom could not have been higher. They had defeated imperial Japan and Nazi Germany, and they did so in the name of freedom and democracy. True, their ally, Stalin’s Soviet Union, had different ideas about these fine ideals, and did [...]