President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s plans of appointing people to government posts on meritocracy hit a stumbling block, when the Rajapaksa super brats MP Namal Rajapaksa and Rohitha Rajapaksa had their respective Father-in-Law and Mother-in-Law appointed as Directors to the Airport and Aviation (Services) Sri Lanka Limited.
Rohitha Rajapaksa’s family and Mother-in Law Diedre De Livera
Unbeknownst to many, MP Namal Rajapaksa’s Father-In-Law Thilak Weerasinghe Chairman Lanka Sportreizen (LSR) and Rohitha Rajapaksa’s Mother-in Law Deirdre De Livera were appointed earlier as Directors of Airport and Aviation (Services) Sri Lanka Ltd.
Namal Rajapaksa and Father-In-Law Thilak Weerasinghe
The former beach boy Thilak Weerasinghe was a wind surfer who went on to win the National Wind Surfing Championships in Colombo before teaming up with a German tourist to start off his company now known as Lanka Sportsreizen (LSR).
Meanwhile according to Rohitha Rajapaksa’s (Chichi) Mother-in-Law Deirdre De Livera’s profile, it is stated that she is a Business Development Specialist at EXEL Holdings (Pvt) Ltd. She started off as an airline executive with Delmege Air Services (Pvt) Ltd.
To cap it all off the the post of Chairman Airport and Aviation (services) was accorded to the former Northern Province Governor Major General (Rtd.) G.A. Chandrasiri .
According to an article published in the Daily FT the appointed Chairman G.A. Chandrasiri openly confessed that he had no experience in his appointed role but was keen to learn on the job. (By Dasun Jayakody)
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Nimal Perera / January 10, 2020
Thilak Weerasinghe is a tourism industry veteran and has been involved with the trade for more than 20 years. He has the largest fleet of tourist vehicles and is the owner of many hotels in the country. He has hotels all over the country. He is also the franchise holder for the SRI Lanka marathon which has become an annual event in the local calendar sand attracts many overseas runners.
Very happy to see some one like Thilak getting involved with the Airport Authority since the BIA is a total mess now and an eye sore to every tourist coming to the country.
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Lankan / January 10, 2020
Ah, thats alright then…
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Sinhala_Man / January 10, 2020
Dear Lankan,
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No, it’s not all right. Even if he is a success, it is nepotism. There may well be others with equal abilities, and with equal or better qualifications. Certainly, the objections will lose force if he has all the experience that is listed by Nimal Perera.
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The problem is that our citizens seem always to look for excuses to do nothing. I exposed corruption in this article:
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https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/some-thomian-pharisees-are-adamant-on-the-need-to-cheat/
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One of my closest relatives was involved, and for years I had asked others to take it up. When I finally wrote it, you will find that the “Establishment” has not defended it, but many of my so-called friends didn’t comment, implying that it was “reverse nepotism”! There must be some hidden reason why I must have written it.
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Read it, and judge for yourself. Going by your arguments, with theirs added, nothing will ever be objected to by the cowards of Sri Lanka.
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I’m sorry that I’ve been rather harsh on you; I’m sure that you are a decent enough guy.
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Lankan / January 10, 2020
Looks like my sarcasm didn’t quite hit the spot!
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Sinhala_Man / January 11, 2020
Dear Lankan,
Not to worry, you’ve now corrected that.
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Provided you don’t bother about the red marks ina personal way, (i.e. your ego), all is well.
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You’re fortunate, in a sense. Jonathan Swift was beaten up on the streets of Dublin by some guys who didn’t see the sarcasm in this:
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b00h3650
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It’s to be found on the web in many different formats.
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R J Das / January 11, 2020
This is a start and wait for the real thing after elections
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Sinhala_Man / January 11, 2020
I know, dear R J Das.
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We can see it coming, but can do nothing to stop it happening.
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Predictable result. The SLPP will sweep the South. the “minority parties” may even be (unfairly) banned as being racist.
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That the two big “National Parties” have Sinhala-supremacist policies will never be acknowledged. Can any minority person ever lead one of them? No, not even a moderate Sinhalese.
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The closest we got to having “moderate Sinhalese leaders” in this country was with Dudley Senanayake, and CBK.
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bhumiputhra bandaara / January 11, 2020
donot disgrace DUDLEY BY EQUATING HIM TO BANDIT QUEEN
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Sinhala_Man / January 14, 2020
Dear bhumiputhra bandaara
You take pot shots at the living person, put the other on a pedestal.
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Yes, Dudley was good all round. CBK may have weaknesses, but she remains one of the few non-racist leaders we’ve had.
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I have already noted you, bumiputra, as being racist.
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Try to improve!
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Desperate Sinhalaya / January 14, 2020
Mr Sinhala Man,
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Rascals dominated srilanka would never respect real respectful people. That is made by Mafia Boss et all for the last 15 years. So it is no worth commenting on BUMI puthra or the like devils.
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Desperate Sinhalaya / January 14, 2020
Sinhala Man@
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Can you imagine? just leave your affinity to any part politicians. But we should have guts to call a spade a spade.
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Lately I heard that the WIHARAADHIPATHI being one another diehard Rajapkashe supporter, Fake Prof. Panditha thero as the chief incumbent monk at Kelaniya temple together with his supporters make every effort to attack Mr Ranil Wickramasinghe.
Wikramasinghe s family is believed to have built Kelaniya Wiharaya at that time. They had spent lots of funds to make the place that sacred.
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Likewise, Bandaranayaka sacrificed a whole lot of time and assets for the benefit of the nation. To that time, Mrs B was held as heorine world wide. In Europe yet today, they only know two terms about srilanka
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That are ” CEYLON” and the other is ” BANDARANAYAKA”.
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At the time TSUNAMI hit the nation killing over 40k people, donations flew to the country thanks to Mr Kadirgamar and Chandrika Bandaranayaka not because of BP Rascal Rajakshes
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Today, as my parents and relatives are affected, to the very same manner, dignified respectful people are being hurt by every means. CBK is hurt by press reporters but in the same time, very press reports behave that obesequeous and penissless before Rajapakshe thugs.
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And Rajakapakshe are known to the world:
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each time when foreigners questioning me about current day polics, I though reluctantly bite my nails as I am so embarraced.
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As rascals that destroyed the old democracies that maintained a decade long until they born killed grabed the power holding the vulnerble as human shieild.
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K A Sumanasekers / January 14, 2020
Sinhala Man,
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Did you hear how your UNP ex Minister Ranjan demolished CBK’s dear old Papa with that one liner?.
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And even called CBK’s dear son a Samanalaya.
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My Elders tell me CBK is Dr Rani,s Cousin,Was Dudley a cousin too?..
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Desperate Sinhalaya / January 14, 2020
KAS,
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why on earth to disgrace CBK s son, he is a well established VET in UK.
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Be he a butterfly or not is nothing to be worried. Even LGBT men and women can get married today in Europe.
-They are also human beings, and we dont care a person’s sex orientation so long the politics being delivered by them are within norms.
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My gosh, you guys talk about CBK s son, but nothing about murderous sons of Mahinda BP Rajakshes. Why is that ? Is calculated MURDERs allowed in SRILANKA ?
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K.A. Sumanasekera / January 15, 2020
Desperate Sinhalya,
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I agree 120%… Mate..
I like to go even further and say LGBT community is far better than the so called Heterosexuals , when it comes to Social Evils . like Criminal behavior , Corruption , Racism ,and even simple day to social etiquette.
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Sadly our LGBT Politicians in Lankawe are an exemption.
I am sure I do not need to digress..
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It was the darling of the UNP .the ex Minister who acted like a Yahapalana RASPUTIN to please the Elite Ladies in Colombo who insulted CBK and her Family..
And even recorded it for posterity.
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But I am sorry to say even you should take a leaf from the Book of Etiquette and stop calling Rajapaksas, Ballige Puthas in Lankawe.
Because I have heard someone say practice what you preach..
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Sinhala_Man / January 14, 2020
No, KAS, I don’t know, and I don’t particularly want to hear whatever sleaze you want to pass on to us.
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You are only tolerated here. Few want you.
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K.A. Sumanasekera / January 15, 2020
Sinhala Man,
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Thanks for that inside info on the Blue Tablets.
I will check with my chemist dude next to ARPICO in Wellala Gardens.
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Tell me something, Is the Hindian brand OK?..
Does even a Half give that terrible headache which last long after the happy ending…
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Wonder where Ranjan got his supply from?..
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Native Vedda / January 15, 2020
KASmaalam K A Sumanasekers
“My Elders tell me CBK is Dr Rani,s Cousin,Was Dudley a cousin too?..”
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Did you know Dudley Senanayake’s family forced him to meet a prospective bride. He went, saw her, and returned home determined to stay a bachelor forever. The bride was Sirima Ratwatte, later became the infamous weeping widow.
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I would say Dudley made the right decision.
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K.A. Sumanasekera / January 15, 2020
Dear Native,
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Just imagine if Dudley did not decide to practice celibacy?.
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We could have had Yahapalanay from 1956 .. Am I correct Native ?..
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Never mind..I was wondering who set the precedent for the UNP to have leaders who practice celibacy?..
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Native Vedda / January 16, 2020
KASmaalam K A Sumanasekers
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“Never mind..I was wondering who set the precedent for the UNP to have leaders who practice celibacy?..”
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I understand SWRD Pandara Nayakam was also an abstinent from practising naughty activities. Was he ever been a sāmaṇera before he went to Britain? He was a boarding school boy where I wonder the inmates practiced any form of “situational homosexuality”?
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sanjeewa jayawardana / January 11, 2020
Of cause wait and see friends
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Sinhala_Man / January 11, 2020
Two hours later, your sarcastic comment is getting green thumbs-up, possibly owing to your “explanation”. that makes interpretation of reader evaluation even more difficult!
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Lankan, we need more people like you! Why? You acknowldeged the backfiring of your strategy – very few do that. Also, you have learnt from your mistake.
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Finally, all my writing is in English. The most important messages must be in Sinhalese – different fora. Which reminds me that I must perform my “duty” of looking at the Sinhalese section of CT. Let’s face it. CT is doing a lot of good, but even Sinhalese articles on it will never be read by any except a handful of English-literate readers – like me!
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Tamil? My assessment is that most Tamil-reader comments are healthy. Don’t torment Tamil citizens any more; they have suffered enough.
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Justice and Fairplay / January 11, 2020
Sonhala Man, how does one access the sinhala version of CT please?
Thanks
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Sinhala_Man / January 11, 2020
When you scroll up, just a couple of spaces from where you currently are, you see “Colombo Telegraph” in Gothic letters below the browser task bar – top left in other words.
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You then have the “Menu” for CT: on it, you will find Tabs in this order:
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HOME NEWS OPINION WIKILEAKS VIDEO EDITOR’S CHOICE SINHALA
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So Sinhala in the right corner. Written in Sinhalese letters, for which my computers don’t have the capabilities – that is to say, that I haven’t installed the necessary software.
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All articles there are in Sinhalese, but comments can be either in English or in Sinhala.
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Poor “Justice and Fairplay” – you’re not a child, are you? It’s just like a new mobile phone. We get one, we spend hours learning how to use it. A five-year-old is uninhibited in his explorations, and so discovers all its secrets in a couple of hours.
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Your naive question suggests that there are lots of other things about this website (and others!) where you don’t know how to navigate. I hope you master it all. Good Luck!
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Justice and Fairplay / January 11, 2020
Dear Sinhala man,
Thank you very much indeed! Much obliged.
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Native Vedda / January 10, 2020
Sinhala_Man
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Since you are a man of literature you should listen to:
Aldous Huxley interviewed by Mike Wallace : 1958 (Full)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alasBxZsb40
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Tell us how relevant is his concern now?
Do we have to start worrying?
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Sinhala_Man / January 11, 2020
Dear Native Vedda,
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I’m doing what I can, but there are limits to what can be achieved before I finally kick the bucket. Yes, I’ve listened to the half hour that you’ve prescribed for me. However, let me confess that I haven’t read “Brave New World” and I’m unlikely to do so, because at this stage of my life, I find myself reading very few full-length books.
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I do know what the book is about, of course. I hadn’t even read Orwell’s novel, 1984. Then in that very year (1984), I found myself in Peradeniya as an undergraduate, with both novels in the reading list. So, I read the Orwell novel. It required greater effort than his delightful “Animal Farm”. I’m glad I read through both Orwell works.
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The following year we actually produced, full-length, Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”, which is where the title of the Huxley novel came from. Anyway, now playing in the background is this (half an hour already) more recent comparison of the two novels.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31CcclqEiZw
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What you gave me – amazingly relevant. Thanks.
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But may I ask, NV, why didn’t you comment at all on the task that I now have on my plate – and the article that I wrote? Now I have to write my “campaign letter” – not easy with little support.
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Panini Edirisinhe (aka “Sinhala_Man”)
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Native Vedda / January 13, 2020
Sinhala_Man
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“But may I ask, NV, why didn’t you comment at all on the task that I now have on my plate “
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I appreciate your hard work and relevant comment/article.
I do think if I agree with comments I must restrain myself from commenting on comment.
Thanks for your time and energy.
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D. P. / January 11, 2020
Native Vedda,
I’m not going to say much about this particular appointment b’cos enough is already written about potential nepotism under a MaRa/GoRa regime. The excuse behind the nepotism is the trustworthiness but in real world, the most likely outcome of nepotism is corruption. Therefore, no matter what Gora has in his mind, the final results won’t be any different from pre-2015! These kinds of appointments are the things to be expected; not surprises. Public should be ready to expect more of these as time goes.
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Aldous Huxley, the grandson of famous T H Huxley, could have develop a better explanation on the tendency for nepotism had he followed his grand fathers’s work on the Theory of Evolution which was developed by his friend Darwin (Even though Huxley defended the theory ferociously to earn the nick name Darwin’s Bull Dog, he didn’t agree with every aspect of Darwin’s version. For example, Huxley didn’t agree with strong version of Darwin’s gradualism. Unfortunately, Aldous’s brother Julian Huxley, who also became one of the contributing evo biologists to the Modern Synthesis version of Darwin’s theory via his epochal 1942 book, Evolution: The Modern Synthesis, failed to follow grandfather’s insight). In my comments to various columns, I did try to explain the tendency for corrupt behavior like nepotism in evolutionary terms.
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Bunjappu / January 14, 2020
Mr DP,
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yes, their ONLY execuse is “trustworthyness”, But what have the kind of candidates done to the country going by their previous regime ?-
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Jaliya Wickramasooriya is an another cousin with no proper educational background, but by having appointed him as the previous Embassador to the US, made SRILANKEN eternally laughter stock right ? Now the bugger is reported to be in a jail in the US for fund abuse charges.
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The very same is with MR cousin or someone wihtin his family circle – Udayanga WEERATHUNGA, an another criminal that the interpole police search for…. having abused funds in huge volumes.
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The very same DUO to go and appoint the kind of idiots have two good reasons
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: They are diehard Rajapakshe men that would do anything and everything to them – Rajakashes care or dont foresee anything so long this qualification is there.
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:And their corruption culture to be promoted
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This is the very style abusive african leaders have been holding on to yet today, with exception being progress in current day Ethiopia.
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Countries and nations go into all man made disasters, because the leaders of MR and GR nature, are not capable of taking country specific timely actions regarding a better future.
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Manel Fonseka / January 11, 2020
Dear Native Vedda
Great that you gave SM the website for the Huxley interview. And, lucky for me, it comes with subtitles. Though I’d quite like to hear Huxley speaking, so I will listen to the rest if it tomoro once I have hearing aids in.
For some years in the 60s and 70s I lived very near the Huxley family’s house in Hampstead. Passed it almost every day. I think Julian was living there at that time. And in the 80s I met a SL woman who had worked for them in that very house, as a sort of companion.
Hampstead was a fascinating place to live, lots of interesting people, some of whom one met very easily, often in the pubs. Talking of literature, I met William Empson (of “Seven Types of Ambiguity” fame) in one where he used to play darts. And Peter O’Toole lived near the top of the hilly street on which the Huxley’s house was at the bottom. John Keats’ house was in another street close to mine. After I came to SL I learnt that Eric Hobsbawm, the Marxist historian, had moved into a house opposite the one I lived in.
Sorry, the Huxley interview set off a trail of irrelevant — to this CT article — memories.
Sorry, one more memory before I give way — my English landlord, Miles Tomalin, fought in the Spanish Civil War with the Republicans and a book I have of Civil War poetry has a poem by him. His son Nick, a journalist, wasnt so lucky. He was killed while reporting on the first US war against Iraq. But Miles was a lovely man and always came round with wine for us at New Year.
Ah, those were good times.
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Manel Fonseka / January 12, 2020
31, Pond Street, Hampstead, is the house that Julian (at least) Huxley lived in — for anyone who’s interested in going to see it.
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Native Vedda / January 13, 2020
Manel Fonseka
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Please listen
Aldous Huxley – on The Dancing Shiva
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1kmKpjk_8E
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Native Vedda / January 13, 2020
Manel Fonseka
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Thanks for sharing your fond memories of your younger days with us.
To tell you the truth we should work harder to make this island brilliant place for kids to grow up and thrive.
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As Elders and those who have seen the world and lived fruitful life I would urge Sinhala Man, Spring Koha, Old Codger, you ….. Uthungan, Agnos, ….. many other good hearted people to at least lay the foundation for a better country in the future.
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What is sad is younger generation sees corruption, murder, violence … stealing, as normal part of their life.
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I am not too keen on literature now.
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My favorite writers are Graham Greene and Charles Dickens, Graham for his keen eye for details and his support for Latin American countries, Charles for his vivid depiction of London during the mid 1850s.
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Please do share your memories with us.
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Sinhala_Man / January 13, 2020
Dear NV,
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Yes, although Manel says she sometimes suffers from depression and doesn’t want me to look her up, we do email each other, but cannot phone because she’s quite deaf. A woman with the highest ideals. She’s led a most interesting life, and has known so many people. They were some of the best people we ever had.
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That’s not a pseudonym that she uses but won’t let on to all of what she’s once been. If you google, you’ll find out. In a sense, she has the simplicity of a child. She’s also a committed socialist, and will be fighting chauvinism with her last breath. It’s worth paying attention to her.
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It is true that there is much that some of us could contribute, but we just can’t do much more than we now are. She didn’t want to comment on my article because her late husband and she just never like that “Old Boy” stuff and had never joined OBAs and OGAs. Like Prof. Kumar D., in that respect. Yes, I think that I can empathise with her on such matters. And yet that old school had so much to offer. They wanted me to take full charge of Mt Lavinia in 1990 (as Warden) but then one governor who now apologises to me, opposed it since I acknowledged that I did not have perfect Christian faith. Many things would have been very different had that happened.
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tbc
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Sinhala_Man / January 13, 2020
Now the problem is that I’m not happy with that tinge of snobbery that goes with all those Old Boy Clubs. There I could have made a real contribution at the level of sophistication that the State Schools do not offer. It’s difficult to fight relative personal poverty and work in that rarefied atmosphere at one and the same time. The guys in charge there have never been averse to imagining that the end justifies the means. I wonder if you are aware of how they came to appoint a good man without a bit of “required qualification, Read up about Eksith Fernando and the Supreme Court Cases involving the school. I just don’t know how to get these present fellows to understand how to preserve what is of value. What happens in a place like that does cause ripples which affect even the village.
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I don’t think that I can afford to stay up and write about all that. Sleepy now!
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Manel Fonseka / January 14, 2020
Dear S_M
I’m afraid you’re slightly confused re why I didnt comment on that article. It wasnt because I /we weren’t into OBA’s etc., but because I didnt quite understand the problem & consequently didnt have anything to say about it.
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‘Simplicity of a child’- wow, that’s a first! Not quite sure how to take that…but re the depression, S_M, that was really not for publicising.
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Manel Fonseka / January 14, 2020
But, in case I have left another wrong impression, you are correct in saying that we weren’t into OBA’s. In my case, perhaps because I only attended school in Ceylon for 4 years & that was spread over 3 schools. Not calculated to develop any patriotic fervour, even tho 1 year was at Trinity.
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Manel Fonseka / January 13, 2020
Native
Thank you for Huxley on Shiva Nataraja. How do you alight on such things?
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I scarcely think Uvindu intended CT to be a chat room, & I fear I strayed too far from the subject under discussion, recounting personal memories. Nevertheless, before CT cries ‘halt!’ I will endeavour to respond to your posts
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Have you any ideas yourself how we can “make this island brilliant place for kids to grow up and thrive”?
What can we do to “at least lay the foundation..”?
Whatever ideas you have, wouldnt we have to get together to exchange them, unless someone provides us with an online forum to do this — using the same names we use here.
Perhaps, some of us ancients dont really have the energy now to put our experiences into words.
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I wonder if all the negative & evil things the younger generation today sees are any more than we saw in our time. True, in the political sphere, we may remember some upright, able & qualified people in parliament who were a far cry from most of the types that represent us now.
But my ghastly memories of communal violence in this country go right back to my childhood when I first came to Ceylon & witnessed the 1958 riots. Incidentally, living on the Peradeniya campus then, I was also shocked by the ragging (which people are only now realising should be banned), the humiliation that even female undergrads subjected freshers to. I was laughed at by girls I knew in a hall we lived next door to, when I expressed horror at what they were doing.
cont..
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Manel Fonseka (Author) / January 14, 2020
“I am not too keen on literature now.” Strange from someone who has, it seems, been an avid reader at one time. I dont know what I wd do if books were denied me. But I share yr love of Dickens, ws buried in him from about the age of 5 after the war in London. I think he probably sowed the seeds of a social conscience in me. But it’s years now since I read him. And Greene, too, tho he came a bit later. Talking of his support for Latin Americans, I am just recovering a trilogy I lent a friend about 5 years ago: Memory of Fire by Eduardo Galeano. If you dont know it, look it up. If you lived nearby you cd borrow it. I shall say no more.
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Raritythoughts / January 14, 2020
Mam Fonseka@
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Sinhalayas have got that in their genetics.
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Yours brought me back to my stay at Hilda Obeysekara for a period of 1 year or so until I left the country for Europe.
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I was attacked by abusive seniors together batchas since I was very silent person. There were numerous times I was thrown on to a pond filled with waters. All these were happened to me while I was assleep. The level of ragging is still there in even brutal versions today.
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These ragging at local Unis and child monk molestation by so called senior buddhist monks are not discussed in public forums for some hidden reasons yet today. See there are a whole lot of U tube video makers today, none of them have guts to bring anti-ragging video clips.
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This is good old srilanka, filled with rascals and thugs. The situation of more like a STINKY garbage mountain but covered with sweety icing cake. Landscape wise srilanka is one of the beautifucal islands in this planet. But people would never respect morals. The culture and tradition has been like that for the last 5 decades.
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Manel Fonseka / January 14, 2020
Rarity
So u were at Hilda (women’s hostel). I wonder when. The ragging I was referring to took place there when we were living in the bungalow at the end of Hilda. How awful that you had to undergo such distress & humiliation. Things have got so bad since then that apparently each university now has a “torture chamber”.
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Leonard / January 11, 2020
Sinhala_Man
“There may well be others with equal abilities, and with equal or better qualifications.”
Yes yes I remember the name of Arajuna Mahendran.
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Uthungan / January 11, 2020
Leonard
Actually Arjuna Mahendran was only a cat’s paw for the others with far better qualifications.
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Desperate Sinhalaya / January 13, 2020
And LEONARD you dont remember the following list?
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Jaliya ballige putha balasooriya – MR s nephew or a cousin – better known to be a tea taster by job, who knows nothing but became srilanken ambassador to the US -now is said to be in jail in the US- is now caught in the act having stolen collosal amounts of state funds from both sides. He proved it to the world Rajapakshe blood is only related to high crimes of various nature.
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Udayanga Weerathunga – an another close relative, a cousin or nephew from the very same Rajapakshe circles, is reported to have grabed over 7.4 million of US dollars along from that MIG flight purchase for which Lasantha Wickramatunga was murdered by Gotler then.
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Current Prez Secretary -Dr Jayasundara.
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The man with Padikkam mouth – most known Wimal Buruwanse, then loudly made PUBLIC statements Jaysundara to be a number Parasite and his abusive culture was instrumental in loosing so much of funds from then ministry of finance remember ?
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I can add lot more to this – when returning from LONDON tomorrow, if my time would permit .. okay…
I have no doubt, Mr SM will come with a CONSTRUCITVE response to you in next few hours.
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S. C. Pasqual / January 11, 2020
Mr. Mrs. Sinhala_man,
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So what…?
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He will appoint whoever he seems fit for whatever posts necessary…
That’s why we make him president.
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Whoever doesn’t agree with appointments can go to courts if it is illegal.
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If not let him do his job and stop muttering bullshit.
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Sinhala_Man / January 11, 2020
So, this represents the sense of humour of a jack-ass!
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Knowing that a guy is a man, and also knowing his name, but referring to him as Mr. Mrs.
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In future, please label this as a “joke”.
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It’s not worth knowing animals as asinine as that!
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desperateasnother / January 13, 2020
My dear Mr SM,
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it is no worth wasting time for Pascal. .He is much more related to that Champawathi.
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Dont even read his comment. Actually CT should ban the kind of men not allowing access to this valuable forum.
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Sinhala_Man / January 14, 2020
Agree about Pasqual, not about Champa for reasons that I have already posted. I don’t know whether they are visible yet.
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Thanks fro your consistency, and the high ideals that you try to uphold.
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One problem that I now have is that you expect too much from me! I’m doing my best, but may well collapse one of these days.
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S. C. Pasqual / January 14, 2020
Mr. PANINI EDIRISINHE,
Mr. desperateasnother,
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Funny…..
I have seen you all calling our president “Bal…. Pu…”.
Have seen people making baseless allegations.
Have seen people making false claims.
And….
You wants to ban me….
Funny indeed…..
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And it was a pleasure meeting you Mr. Panini Edirisinhe.
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desperateasnother / January 14, 2020
S.C Pasqual
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Your IQ should be lower to that of Rajaakshes all together.
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You please dont attack Mr Pannin Amarasinghe for the terms we had used in our texts. Mr Panini A. has never used such terms in his comments to be honest.
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My cry is to improved your awareness.
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People should not be made utral fools by bad practices being used to political surivival.
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Yesterday I bought two kgs of Onions just for 1.20 Euro in Germany. Meaning 240 rupees or so. That means a kg would not cost 120 rps.
But bp led srilanka you guys pay over 700 rps.
So what happened to the alerts being sent to rabblerouse the nation ?
Are you all sealed off ?
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desperateasnother / January 11, 2020
My dear Mr SM–
Please take good care of you, sleep enough and drink enough water. I have the feeling you tirelessly work on your comments almost everyday. That is really good to us CT readers, but you also need to think about your health as early heptagenarian.
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To tell you, this is an another heated weekend for me, just after reading about the unethical appointments being again given their men within their circles,, I question why on earth people nevertheless support them ? Shameless “once upon high criminals that are now held as pepole’s heroes” would do anything, their supporters do nothing but behave as dogs barking while caravan moves forwad. That is typcial to lanken culture. They the people dont care about anything today. They dont even raise the question why the daily needs and their price hikes , but be busy about the TAPEs of Ranjan Ramanayaka leaked to the Social media ?
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Who to be blamed if not to the very same stupid people in masses.
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People incl. my relatives in the fools# paradise to whom I may have gifted SMART phones lately, too, have become Rajapakshe supporters. I became so furious, but it is the trend within the country. Even criminals are used to say, ” Buduarnayi” while they continue their criminal activities in an routine manner. I can explain them loads of truths with provable figures, but changing their way thinking attitude is effortless. They the average down there would not respect truths but mostly “hearsays” and what two abusive TV channels (Derana TV and Hiru TV) spread within the country.
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Like cadave is selfishly and forcefully grabed by king of the jungle- lions and other predators, not allowing any other creatures to even close to it, lanken politics is being controlled by muscle (rascals and thugs ) not by brain today than any time in the past.
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desperateasnother / January 11, 2020
to be ctd,
Who to be blamed if not to the very same stupid people in masses.
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People incl. my relatives in the fools# paradise to whom I may have gifted SMART phones lately, too, have become Rajapakshe supporters. I became so furious, but it is the trend within the country. Even criminals are used to say, ” Buduarnayi” while they continue their criminal activities in an routine manner. I can explain them loads of truths with provable figures, but changing their way thinking attitude is effortless. They the average down there would not respect truths but mostly “hearsays” and what two abusive TV channels (Derana TV and Hiru TV) spread within the country.
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Like cadave is selfishly and forcefully grabed by king of the jungle- lions and other predators, not allowing any other creatures to even close to it, lanken politics is being controlled by muscle (rascals and thugs ) not by brain today than any time in the past.
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Yes now the CADAVE is mainly controlled by Rajapakshe looters again.
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Day before yesterday, I was very much angered by watching some Rajakashe criminal supporters not having invited former President CBK in the commemoration ceremony held in colombo but CBK had herself arrived in there with her elder sister and knelt down before the statue as usual and added her sad thoughts to the press about not being invited to the ceremony.
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They SLFPrs take good advantages of Bandaranayakes but not respecting his family and offsprings. How come SLFP to fall that grotesque, in the country today ?
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Sinhala_Man / January 13, 2020
As you say, dear Dr desperateasnother,
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I’d better not spend too much time on these comments. It’s very hot and dry here now and there is a possibility of dehydration. the sort of advice that you give me makes me feel that you, too, must be a medical doctor like the author of this:
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https://www.colombotelegraph.com/index.php/buddhism-sex-education/
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A most interesting man, don’t you think? You don’t seem to have discovered him yet. Thanks for your concern. As you say, people like CBK and family have a genuine sense of honour and decency.
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desperateasnother / January 14, 2020
Take good care of you sir. If you have no heart problems, it is fine with drinking of 1.5l water a day. At least evenings you may go for a walk. But never forget the danger before you. They barbarians already know who you are. Your pen reveals untold stories of ramphant corruption in this country. As we know it well from prior to 2015, they shoot the messenger as usual.
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Btw, we are freezining in Europe even if weather fluctuations make it very difficult these days. It was an another break night, since the wind patterns were unusual over here. That has lot to do with the prevailing temperature fluctuations.
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Sinhala_Man / January 14, 2020
The Western Province is awfully hot during the day, but I have the luxury of my cottage in Uva.
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I will reply form there.
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hancho pancha / January 11, 2020
Mr. President has taken leaves from pages of Ranil and MS who had his “butterflies” and the family members, respectively placed in top Government jobs to help themselves to public coffers. The people appointed in this instance have their own proven track records.
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Sam Fernando / January 11, 2020
An another Zimbabwian styleMUGABE govt Episode 2 is in making. Get ready to face it. Trade sactions to the style to Iran can come on us in the days to come. No EU and US would ever support Rajakashe rascal politics
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Wake up people, at least 60 lacks that stood against the rascals should work hard even more by improving the awareness of the average.
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Most dont care about the facts about Rajakashes. They just see otherway around when truths being spread on them. According to them for no reasons Rajakshes were called for court investigations.
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Even if PRIMA FACIE evidence revealed and reported in media regarding the state FUND abuses made by Gotabaya in the build of MONUMENT to commemorate their deseased parents- whole lot of VOTERs from southern areas, never took it to heart.
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People s awareness is being abused by Rajakshes on and on. They are very concerned about the NEWs items, any BLANT lies in favour of them would be put to air through their biased TV channels on and on.
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I question, why NO YET prevailing laws CONTROL these two channels. If they dont have appropriate provisions in prevailing laws to control them, why law makers in Opoosition then and today stay further silent ?
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I dont think if any TV channel in UK would abuse their media freedom regarding late Princess Diana’s Harry not respecting Queen elibsabath family traditionAs is the case in CURRENT day srilanka, LEGAL authorities to let any TV channels to spread blatant lies but in favour of vicious politics – no means possible in Germany for example. Why our oppostion leaders dont make effort to bring reforms to control lanken media channels, within internationally held norms ?
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Native Vedda / January 11, 2020
Lankan
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Did Gota say he was going to emulate Singapore?
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Gumption / January 10, 2020
Yeah…we all know how he got there and the trail of destruction. Not unlike some people who got rich through cut throat and share market scams.
Sri Lanka- the land where thieves have the gumption to congratulate each other on ripping off the innocent.
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babalawathie mudunkotuwa / January 11, 2020
This is what we predicted – family cooperation will ruin the country again –
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Leaving and making the poor of the poor even further poor.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy5qbqggbiQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=he04VOCKjZU
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My gosh, what a stupid nation, not to have noticed these corruption, even if they looted it to the core until 2015.
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Tara / January 11, 2020
People who voted for this disgusting lot were too stupid to not realize that all they had to do was look at their past history, the corruption, nepotism, homes and property seized, off shore bank accounts hidden from the country, money laundering, unsolved murders, white vans, journalists killed and threatened, stealing from the museum, misuse of Sri Lankan planes, and much, much more….fool me once, shame on you , fool me twice shame on me.
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Sinhala_Man / January 11, 2020
Dear babalawathie mudunkotuwa
I’ve made comments on both videos (with my name, that being the only way I know how, when responding to Youtubes), saying that all this do-gooding is superficial.
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Those people in Wellawaya and Buttala seem to live in yet unspoilt areas. Why isn’t that being stressed? What effort is being made to ensure that they are able to earn themselves a better living?
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babalawathie mudunkotuwa / January 11, 2020
Dear SM,
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Thank you and I really admire your comments.
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I truly believe that most of them are an another network that abuse pvt funds being offered to them by expatriate srilankaens. I also donate regularly to some schools, but I will check them closely next time on.
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So call TV channels mushroom in the country today. I know not only at Wellawaya and Buttala, but there are whole lot of people in Anuradhapura and southern areas live under poverty. Most of them are not accessed to any means of income. I wonder what the govts did to them sofar. Why not these people are kept away from SAMURDHI ?
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I myself cant add my thoughts to them now, because GOOGLE has blocked my account for some reasons. I believe that Iraj weeraratne, an another key asskisser of Rajakashe clan, may have complained to GOOGLE:
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As you know the donators in general cant know all the bits about the Channels because they just make their transfers being out of the country.
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Amarasiri / January 11, 2020
Colombo Telegraph,
RE: Namal’s Father-In-Law And Chichi’s Mother-In-Law Appointed Directors At Airport & Aviation (Services) Ltd.
That is how tribalism works. The tribal head appoints those who are in the tribe or associated with the tribe, are appointed to the tribal councils. Those in the competing tribes , and those associated with the competing tribes are generally not appointed.
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S. C. Pasqual / January 11, 2020
Mr. Amarasiri aka mean IQ 12,
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That’s how we do it you idiot.
Go to hell if you don’t like it.
Who cares..
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Amused / January 11, 2020
My, my, so eloquent and excelling in the art of civilized, intellectual dialogue!!
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Lankan / January 11, 2020
Er, that’s so juvenile! Can’t you discuss differences in opinion like a mature adult?
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babalawathie mudunkotuwa / January 11, 2020
SC Pasqual,
you write in English but your IQ should be really lower that of JARAWA or the like tribes in India and africa.
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You guys what you have done and been doing to this nation is even far dangerous Hitler led groups made to Germany.
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Rajapakshe balige puthas should be raw burnt if they are getting ready to abuse the vulernable in this country again. ‘
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May the commeners be blessed with WISDOM when voting to their men in upcoming elections.
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Amarasiri / January 12, 2020
S S Pascal,
You are suffering from too many prostrations to the imbecile monks, and by induction and your brain being lower than your ass, the functioning of the neurons in your brain have been impacted negatively.
Just stop prostrations to the imbeciles monks and the Rajaoaksa Tribe, and you may become “normal”.
It is called the Prostration Effect. Many millions are affected by it, the cause, the attachment to the monks and the Rajapaksa Tribe.
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Raritythoughts / January 14, 2020
That is just this partcular Pascal should have been sitting on his little brain.
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He or she or the eunach does not seem to know the basics about the monks. The kind of stupid men or women let any wrapped around man or men to be regarded as BUDDHIST monk in today s context.
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As I read somewhere, stray dogs would treat you with non-stop of waging her tail if you would please concentrate on them rather than bringing free food to MODERN day GAY crminals.
I am not against innocient LGBT community but Hamuduruwos showing something and doing other way around hurt me that much.
I ll bett you if you interview 100 child monks, they would reaveal what harrasements that they should go through at nights in SRILANKEN temples across the country. If Saudi arabian style SHARIA law would have been implemented, many of the senior monks would have to be subjected to castration on the spot. If they cant control over their hormones why to continue as pingutharayas further ?
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Eagle Eye / January 11, 2020
Amarasiri,
Native Sinhalayo and Vedda Eththo will decide what is good for the country. Sinhalayo will not allow ‘Para’ Malabar Wellala politicians and ‘Para’ Muslim politicians to play hell in the Land of Sinhalayo and Vedda Eththo.
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Amarasiri / January 12, 2020
Eagle Confused Eye,
The Native Veddah Aethho belong to the Native Veddah Aethho Tribe, and the later arrivals, the Paras, the Para-Sinhala, Para-Tamils etc. belong to the Para/ Tribes, confirmed by mitochondrial DNA Haplo group genetics.
Remember, the Paras now have 46 chromosomes, down from 48 when they lost their tails by evolution.
Present the data to the Indian/ Bharat Prime Minister, Hon. Modi, and ask if a new State in Southern- Eastern India be created to accommodate the home coming of the long-lost Para cousins.
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Roshan / January 11, 2020
Referring to Thilak Weerasinghe as a beach boy smacks of class envy. Here s a man who has worked his way up, by working hard and honestly. Please have some decency
This is not the first director position he has held, The Tour Operations Assn nominated him to SL Tourism as their representative in during last regime. He may not bring Aviation to the board but he will represent a the inbound tourism industry who are stakeholders of all airports
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Leelagemalli / January 14, 2020
I have added my comments to that of Thilak WEERASINGHE, who is believed to be a great great ass kisser of Rajaakshe family. If they would be given the chance, they would not leave any droppings of the family, I have no idea why people fall that obsequeous to the rascals ?
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These men may have some good experiences collected over the years as is the case with our so called SELF PROCLAIMED political scientists aka analyst -Dr Dayana Jayathilaka. But none of these men obvisouly know nothing but their pocket filling tactics. However, DJ has a very unique nature which only fits to him. He waited last over 3 years until he got finally posted to Russia. How many times he had gone after SORISENA for that was reported then. Now the bugger is between UNP and SLPP, because his favourite SP is the opposition leader in current parliament.
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Kabalgooratna / January 11, 2020
Aviation and beachboys don’t mix Nimalo.
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sarath / January 11, 2020
Feel sorry about Prez Gota’s real effort to appoint the correct people. MR the real Mr Nepotism is above Gota it seems.
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daya weerasinghe / January 11, 2020
Nepotism thrives in the banana republic. Disgusting.
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Anonymous / January 11, 2020
What bloody 2/3 majority for these criminals already destroying our country. vote them out Sajith will topple them with his new political party…
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Kamal Agunaratna / January 14, 2020
Shameless Rajapakshe would never change their attitudes even if the people would sufferby the actions they eventually take in current day srilanka.Shameless Rajapakshe would never change their attitudes even if the people would sufferby the actions they eventually take in current day srilanka.
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See how this BASIL’s Rajakashes diehard supporter, beetle eating Wimalaweera is fallen by now….
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Interesting.. please check it out
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAJQE_0qyGE
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JD / January 10, 2020
The Problem is why every President (OR PM) appoints friends to the airport and to the air lines. The second question is are there not any other unemployed VIYATHUN suitable for the job. It looks again Mahinda Rajapakse is in the Saddle. Who Published thus. UNP working committee ?
Ranjan Affair Proved that all 225 in the Parliament are disgusting in their actions. Ranajan is just one. Others should be the same.
It is simple, Frauds, corruption in short, Revenge hatred filled place, But the Bill always go to the poor voter.
Now UNP says do as fast as possible what you said. Govt is still blaming the Previous govt but they are getting into Cesspits but it looks they are unaware about that they are also Naked Kings.
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Lanka / January 11, 2020
They all appoint friends to AA to facilitate the inflow of their ill-gotten money kept hidden in overseas bank specially Singapore.
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K.L Pathirana / January 10, 2020
These positions cannot be filled by the average individual or anyone who is a businessman/woman. They require aviation regulatory knowledge, aviation laws and serious managerial skills. We cannot expect either any of these 3 individuals to complete a satisfactory job. Again, we have made the same mistakes as voters repeatedly.
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Maharage, / January 10, 2020
Nearly 7 million Sinhala Buddhists are screwed. !!!!
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A slim portent …. that the final blow to whatever we had so far in this depleted land is just in close range. …………
In less than 2 months since the ascendance of a moron Gas Station Assistant to throne….
Thieves, murderers swindlers, rapists, Kassippu kings, bootleggers, uneducated morons are in line … awaiting the call …. .. won’t be too long.
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Amarasiri / January 11, 2020
Maharage,
“Nearly 7 million Sinhala Buddhists are screwed. !!!!”
From the time the Paras accepted Para-“Buddhism” ‘ with the Triple Gem and Monk Hegemony, they were screwed. (The first 6 kings escaped this) . The Sinhala Buddhists are prostrating to the monks, for monk hegemony, and they still do not know that the have been screwed, by the illusion of Nibbana and Nirvana.
Their current mean IQ, estimated from measured data is 78. There is a hypothesis floating around that prostration to monks decreases critical thinking and reasoning abilities, leading to decreasing IQ’s.
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Eagle Eye / January 11, 2020
Amarasiri,
Has Mangalam and Gonja given you a contract to support what they have been telling before the Presidential election about Buddhist monks, Sinhala Buddhists and the Triple Gems?
They probably thought Sinhala Buddhist voters will buy their humbug but that backfired because Sinhala Buddhists are not imbeciles. Sinhala Buddhists who are a smart lot gave the right reply to these vermin politicians of Unpatriotic National Party. NGO suckers are upset about that.
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vithura / January 10, 2020
Nepotism has been a curse in Sri Lanka for a while now and was rife especially during MR’s time in office; now with SLPP back in the saddle after a brief interlude, it will not go away anytime sooner. This whole thing of appointing only those qualified to run State owned enterprises, was aimed at those dumb SLPP voter base to make them believe that things will be different this time round. Going by these appointments so early in GR-MR tenure, Sri Lanka could possibly be revisiting the pre 2015 period all over again! Let’s hope that the days ahead do not transpire that way, but optimism in this paradise isle is something that is a hard to come by!!
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Tara / January 11, 2020
Nepotism has never been so rampant as when the Rajapaksa’s were reigning the last time. Unqualified uncles and aunts given lucrative posts, ripping off tax payers, enjoying the perks, taking planeloads of other relatives to shop and feast, and acting entitled. Every remember the crook uncle Jaliya, an unqualified, inexperienced clown, who represented us in the US, and was caught with his hand in the cookie jar? More of that in store for jolly old Sri Lanka.
But don’t worry folks, the streets will be clean.
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Rajiv / January 11, 2020
What difference do these make? Ranil and ‘Aiyo” got together and scammed the C.B., then this lot shelved the Special Commission’s findings and now we are all going t the carnival. Hooray!! Its just starting!!
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K.A. Sumanasekera / January 11, 2020
What a Scandal…..This !!.
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I thought Dr Rani conspiring on Gonja APP to kill Mahindananda would be the one.Never mind.
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just listened to the latest release where the UNP Minister Mr Ranajan Ramanayaka asking a Lady in Colombo to come over for a Quickie.
And she says ” Give me 40 Minutes , I have to have a Wash” .
Them the Minster says something which I can;t mention .
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Anyway General Chandrasiri is a top bloke who protected Jaffa against all odds.
I am sure he will do the same to for Srilankan.
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All appointments to public jobs are now vetted by the Viyathmaga Selection Committee.
I am sure they are all good people like the General Goonaratana.
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BTW , the UNP Senior , Minister Kiriella had not just 2 but 40 of his immediate Family on the Staff just in his Ministry jobs.
Those included even his Daughters and Sons in Law.
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But it was all good with our Yahapalana supporters.
Wonder what made this so irritable?..
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ranjith / January 11, 2020
WAKE UP IT IS COUNTRY BEING RUIN BY THESE ASSHOLES
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Sam Fernando / January 11, 2020
We salute you to have realized it let alone today. Else, I thought, you are an another bum kisser of Rajapakshe rascals.
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Purple Rain / January 11, 2020
Whatever said and done “make family great again” I coin a phrase the other way round “Easier done than Said” Enjoy.
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R. Manawadu / January 11, 2020
CT is being selective in giving these appoitments a lot of attention!
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The ‘suddawanthayas’ complaining about these appointments must have short memories.
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Remember under the UNP since its beginning, DS, Dudley, R.G., Robert, Rukman and other Senanayakas. Then JR Thambi Mudali (he was not a Jayawardena) had his mates Choksi, Gnanam and other Indian Farsi, Borah and Thambi mates. Chandrika introduced her BIL’s friend Eric Solheim to manage the war. Where does one end?
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Stop being hypocritical.
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Sam Fernando / January 11, 2020
Manawadu @You dont need to have stuudied rocket science to get it, ballige putha Rajakashes are the most mlechcha men in politics in our country.
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Not long ago, just 5 years ago, SRILANKEN airlines was made flat to floor by their nepotistic appointments. But very same idiots being placed above the society, lanken punnaku eaters dominated srilanka is moving backward today. EIther this nation be punished by god or karama sooner than later.
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kolla / January 11, 2020
These people , if they are respectable and established people, also have a duty to not accept such appointments.
I suppose for the new rich social climbers ,government appointments, as these are perks without responsibility, are difficult to resist. They get vehicles, drivers , phones and bribes from private sector wanting favours.
When things go wrong or they don’t deliver these political appointees simply go back to their original jobs and the tax payers have spend to repair the damage.
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Mallaiyuran / January 11, 2020
It is not one;
It is not two;
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It is not hundred;
It is not thousand;
You need to fix 7 million fools. Or, as Amare is asking, deport all of them to Hindustan!
Is that an ordinary task;?it didn’t work out for 72 years. Will it work now? If so when?
Forget about that! Tamils have to go alone and IC & UN has to recognize that. No other way!
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Eagle Eye / January 11, 2020
Mallaiyuran,
We will deport ‘Para’ Demalu who voted to ‘Pad Man’ to their ‘Traditional Homeland’ across the Palk Strait on the instructions of ‘Para’ Wellala politicians who thought that if ‘Pad Man’ comes to power they will be able to make him dance according to their whims and fancies and get a new constitution with Federal System. These ‘Para’ Demalu are not welcomed in Sinhale.
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jayt / January 15, 2020
If call Tamil ” Para’ Demalu ” It directly hurt .Rajapackses. First Rajapakses are multi racial and religious family. They have Tamil brothers in laws. Rajapkses ‘ original family root is Chinese Mongolians brought to Sri lanka. by Portuguese or Dutch and later supported by British. And look at other leaders in Sri lanka, they all have Tamil relatives behind them and they are related to Malays who brought to Sri lanka by British to kill Sinhalese Buddhists.
I admire your patriotism, but if you are true patriot, get rid of these foreigners who took Sinhalese names during colonial period. Srilanka has nearly or over 18 million Sinhalese Buddhists to chooses from and establish a genuine Sinhalese Buddhists government. Why you have to up with fake pride.
Tamil Tigers in the Western countries are laughing at Sinhalese because they are know to the World as Modayas. For example, Sinhalese don’t know in a few years Tamil automatically can increase hair population and can get control over Sri lanka by coming behind families like Rajapackses.
Tamil Tigers’ goal is destroying Sinhalese Buddhists identity. It is discussed all over Europe and North America by Tigers’ Western supporters . So, Rajapakses are foundation for that.
It is also, backed by Sinhalese spies who have been secretly promoting Rajapackses and now openly switched from RW to Rajapackses. Before election, They were playing trick on Sinhalese Modayas and speared as strong anti Rajapakses. It was huge trick they played to bribe Sinhalese Mondays to be sympathetic to Rajapackses and make them win
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Lanka / January 11, 2020
Next in line are Naki Manamalaya, U. Weeratunga and Tea taster cousin.
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Tara / January 11, 2020
It is like a bad, bad habit….nepotism raising it’s head slowing but surely, and after the next elections, we will see plenty of unqualified family members given lucrative jobs, enriching the families, and having a jolly time like last time. Stupid people in this country who voted for this lot, thought the Goat man was going to be different.
Wake up people, they are all the same, and in another year you will see that.
The madness has begun.
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Fred / January 11, 2020
Can somebody please tell me what’s going on? I thought the tradition was for the bride’s parents to provide the dowry, not for the bridegroom to reward his parents-in-law. Now, I am beginning to wonder if my son-in-law took me for a ride. Also, at the wedding reception the bride’s parents often say how ‘we have not lost a daughter but have gained a son ‘. In these instances did they add ‘and a directorship as well’ ?
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nalmen / January 11, 2020
a pukka subterfuge by mahinda
as family members are prohibited why not appoint their relatives
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shankar / January 11, 2020
this isn’t news.It would be news only if no nepotism takes place.Then CT can have screaming headlines stating one year of the new government and no nepotism so far and people will be bewildered and wonder whether they are still living in the same sri lanka.Now they will yawn for such news that CT puts out that so and so and so and so have been appointed as so and so etc.
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ROHAN JOHNPILLAI / January 11, 2020
in the 70’s when Air Lanka began to serenade the skies the advertising pitch was Sri Lanka a taste of paradise.
RJ@1. now in 2020 at the November 16th election many an enticing promise was made to the shitty sorry Srl Lankan aryia Sinhala godai Buddhists who were aided by the blindly licking the boots of the rajapuka clan the so-called catholic cardinal who overtly enjoys doing a dhathay of an intimate cha step or two in the ample bosom of the wide-bodied ample bosom carrying shiranthi rajapuka, he’s nothing but a total calamity a living disgrace to the largest religious faith on this planet the Roman Catholics of which I am a born proud follower till death do me part.
RJ@2. the hoodwinker of an American citizen better termed as the kallathoni petty Ku Klux clan membership carrying SOB medal proudly carrying jackass of an ignorant coolie president is now proudly appointing his clan’s kith and kin who have entered the ranks of the petty-minded racist family. as directors of various statutory bodies and government bodies..
RJ@3. their only qualification to these glorified positions is that their offsprings by hook or crook have now become the sexual concubines of the rajapuka family.
RJ@4. as a businessman with over 40 years of experience in various trades and traits this being so is the end of the deepening and sinking of the cesspit in the bog.
RJ@5. may all the wayward lawless Sinhalese Buddhists and their blindly loyal Catholics who are very adept at licking the ? of the infidel of a disgrace to humanity and total liability to the worlds largest religious following faith better known to one and as the roman catholic family. in disgust in sadness, I am referring to shiranthi rajapuka’s toyboy the cardinal whose a total liability to the animals and humans who abode on this happy wonderful planet.
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chiv / January 11, 2020
Though I am a physician, I use to day trade in international stock markets for years. Can some one please recommend me for Chairman, CSE / Colombo stock exchange. Today MR,s girl friend and confidante , ex SC judge EVA ( or is it Eve ???)was promoted to High Commissioner. Appointments are being made fast and furious with the coming elections in mind. The only qualification needed is complete servility to the Family.
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ajith / January 11, 2020
chiv,
During 2005 and 2015 period all family members took control of 75% of the national wealth and another 25% was shared between almost 100 ministers who were ready to raise their hands whatever the family did. From 2012, the nations economy started to fall and people became poor and still the country could not come back but every one associated with Mahinda family became the richest. Sinhalese people have forgotten those period with mesmerised propaganda against western countries and anti Tamil, anti Muslim propaganda. What can we expect now?
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nalmen / January 11, 2020
eva is not evita
dont cry for me srilanka
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punchinilame / January 11, 2020
MR did it earlier, as below and this WILL HAVE to be repeated – to govern Sri Lanka for ever:
“Among the political appointees Mr. Dissanayaka revealed in Parliament are: Sarath Kongahage – Ambassador, Germany – Former Chairman of SLRC Nawalage Bannet Cooray – Ambassador, Italy – Former SLFP organizer for Kolonnawa Gamini Rajapaksa – Ambassador, Jordan – Former Deputy Minister of the UNP government H.R. Piyasiri – Ambassador Myanmar – Former Parliamentarian of the UNP Buddhi Athawuda – Ambassador, Netherlands – Minister Athauda Senevirtna’s son Udayanga Weeratunga – Amabssador, Russia – Presidents brother in law Jaliya Wickremesooriya – Ambassador, USA – President’s brother in law Dikson Daala – High Commissioner Maldives – father of Pradeep Nilanga Daala, Diyawadana Nilame of the Temple of the Tooth, a close friend of the President. ASP Liyanage- Ambassador Nigeria – a property trader and a close friend of the President Oshadhi Alahapperuma– Ambassador Sweden, Younger brother of Minister Dulles Alahapperuma Yasara Abeynayake – Consular in Sydney – Gamini Fonseka’s daughter Bharathy Wijeratna – Ambassador, Turkey – Former Minister Mano Wijeratne’s wife Dr. Yvonne Amarasinghe – Ambassador, Vietnam – President’s close friend Srimal Wickremesinghe – Deputy Head, Vienna – Brother of Ms. Shiranthi Rajapaksa, wife of the President Waruna Epasinghe – Embassy in Washington – A son of a government adviser Karaunaratna Pranavithana – Consul General, Canada – former Chairman of SLRC, a defeated candidate at an election WKS Dissanayaka – first Secretary , Abu Dhabi – a relative of the President Lalith U. Gamage – Indonesian Embassy – a SLFP politician from Galle HNB Ratnayaka – Second Secretary, Russia – Minister C,B, Ratnayaka’s son Lionel Premasiri – Deputy Secretary General, Canada – Former organizer of the SLFP in Galle Harshana Herath – Second Secretary, Singapore – Chief Minister of Sabaragamuwa PC Mahipala Herath’s son Chamithri Rambukwelela – Second Secretary, New York – Minister Keheliya Rambukwella’s daughter Muthu Padmakumara – Second Secretary, London – the daughter of Chairman of Lake House Bandula Padmakumara Methsiri Cooray – Ambassador, Netherlands – President’s close friend Dr. Crtin Waidyarathna, High Commissioner in London – wife of Dr. Ajith Ratnayaka Umayangana Randeniya – Second Secretary, Singapore –
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Asoka gunasekar / January 11, 2020
Just wait till the election is over in march
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Buddhist / January 11, 2020
Family bandism in action.
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Mohan Meegolle / January 11, 2020
It’s very unfortunate that this article is trying to show Thilak in a poor light. I have absolutely no doubdt that Thilak’s appointment to the board of AASL is the most appropriate. LSR is the third-largest inbound travel company in Sri Lanka, but also the undisputed No 1 travel company specializing in adventure sports. He has been instrumental in putting Sri Lanka in the sports tourism map by bringing international events in Surfing, Cycling, Running (Colombo Marathon) and white water rafting. LSR is also the Srilankan Airlines appointed agent to handle all the transit passengers since year 2004, and was appointed when Emirates was managing Srilankan Airlines and has handled this ever since. There is no doubt that Bandaranaike International Airport needs a major overhaul and capacity enhancement to handle future growth in tourism. There is no better person than Thilak who has a better knowledge of both these areas to have been appointed to the Board of AASL.
I have worked with Thilak closely for over 18 years on tourism promotions and know him as a humble, accommodating yet visionary and determined person who loves Sri Lanka and worked tirelessly to uplift the tourism industry in Sri Lanka during the darkest years of our country. I wish to congratulate Thilak on his appointment and I have no doubt that he will show his mettle in helping transform the Colombo Airport to what it should be, in the near future.
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Bandula / January 12, 2020
Wow Mohan so nice to see you making a noise in this regard.
If Thilak has all these credentials he should be in the Ministry of Tourism instead of AASL.
A classic case of a square peg in a round hole.
Whilst your at it would you also please tell us how you ended up being posted to Singapore as the Sri Lankan Airlines Country Manager ?
Perhaps we may have to seek that answer from the former Chairman Nishantha Wickrememasinghe if you are reluctant to say so.
As for Diedre de Livera’s appointment, have you got anything to say about that or are you happy that she and her family can also enjoy all the perks that come with the post. Absolutely no credentials to hold any post as a Director AASL?
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Sampath / January 11, 2020
Experience
Business Development Specialist
EXEL Holdings (Pvt) Ltd
May 2019 – Present9 months
Colombo, Srilanka
Director Of Sales Marketing
AUGUST WATER (PVT) LTD
Sep 2016 – Present3 years 5 months
Colombo, Sr Lanka
Founder & Designer
AGANAA Jewellery
Aug 2015 – Present4 years 6 months
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Director
Exel Holdings Ltd.
2001 – 2006 years
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Managing Director
The Travel Gallery (Pvt) Ltd
1991 – 200110 years
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Manager
Jetwing Air (Pvt) Ltd
1997 – 19992 years
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Represented the following Airlines as Country Manager
Sales Manager
Jetwing Travels
1997 – 19992 years
Sales Executive
Thai Airways International
1992 – 19975 years
Executive
Delmege Air Services (Pvt) Ltd – GSA for Japan AirLines
1986 – 19915 years
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thushan / January 11, 2020
Wowowow! Chairman of Airport and Aviation (services) Mr. G.A. Chandrasiri is keen to learn on the job??
*Sigh* at this rate the general public will have to put up with truck loads of trials and errors from these so called “L – board CEOs and Chairmans”.. so i suppose “Learning things on the job” was the system change that Gota was referring to on he’s campaign trail..
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Lion / January 11, 2020
Thushan, Never knew that there are employers who are willing to appoint heads out of trades and pay big bucks and benefits just to make them learn the skills for how long?
Not only that Chandrasiri is double dipping to treasurry funds as he must be already receiving a fat pension as a Maj. Gen.
Gota has stopped all State OTs. Hope he also prevents Chandrasiri receiving Pay &Pension.
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Yoda / January 11, 2020
The slave mentality of frogs stuck in a deep well is predictable. They do the same thing over and over but expect a different result.
Once again, it is a great opportunity for a known bunch of thieves to not only quietly rob the country, but also to ensure that the frogs stay firmly stuck in the well, forever.
Dear frogs, don’t even think of coming into politics, unless you have a few billions in your bank account.
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Don / January 11, 2020
Cichchis grandma also will be appointed as caretaker.
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Thilakg / January 11, 2020
I was quite surprised to see the unfair accusation leveled against a respected lady and a gentleman, based on their relationship to Rajapaksha’s. from the outset what these hate articles suggest “if you are friends or relatives of Rajapaksha’s; Wickramasinghe’s or any other politician they should not hold any public office ???” its not only absurd but creates a wrong perception of our country whereas even in the USA (Trump or Bush) it’s the close friends and family that holds vital positions of a regime and it’s their ability to perform in that job role that matters nothing else. His knowledge on the workings of inside ‘mafia’ of the airport and aviation would have made few people nervous, and I hope he will step in to correct those.
Thilak whom I know personally, hence this long article. He established his organization in 1982 after having qualified as a certified trainer in Switzerland and Austria. He is not a beachboy but he gave wind surfing lessons on the beach ! Lanka Sports Rizen is the only water sports specialized tour operator in this country. Not only that he sponsored almost all annual international events, Colombo Marathon for 18 years, Surfing events in Hikkaduwa and in Arugambay from 2001, International Mountain Biking Events from 2016 – he initiated these at the time of separatist war, Tsunami etc; just to put Sri Lanka in the International map and promote tourism. For him who was in power didn’t matter the intention was to commit his own resources and to promote the country. I can tell you he is the only person who did so at that scale. LSR also has many PADI certified diving schools from the east to the south.
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Jude Fernando / January 11, 2020
It is shameful how people justify nepotism and political patronage. These people are the main obstacle to the success of GOTA. None of the qualifications stated above are good enough for the job. It is also funny the US is used as a standard to justify the appointments in Sri Lanka. Please do not try to food those with sound knowledge about the relations between these appointees and the government. What is happening to viathmaga.
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Douglas / January 11, 2020
Remember the words enshrined and said from the “Thrown”: – ” Although I don’t wear the “Kurahan Satakaya”, what it represents is in me”. Doesn’t it convey what is “IN WAITING”? Just be ready to receive what you , perhaps didn’t ask for.
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roshan goonesekera / January 11, 2020
The idiot who wrote this artical Dasun Jayakody does not know what Tilak has done for Sri Lanken Tourisum. He referes to Tilak as a Beach Boy , in an insulting way. so why not? Tilak never hid his begginings from anybody. Wenn you imagine that the majority of our MP don´t even have OLevels and are runing the country.
Well done Tilak. wish you all the best.
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Leelawathie Jayasinghe / January 14, 2020
Roshan G,
Please reveal the facts about Thilak Weerasinghe. Besides, educational back grounds donot do that much
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We know how they keep OXFORD educated GLP under them as house arrest. These men though got their qualifications at prestigious unis, would never have guts to work free. That has lot do with srilanken abusive mentality.
If the neighbour would lick the balls of an idiot, no doubt, without hesitations, you too join the line to go for it. Not long ago, 2 months ago, Kelaniya Temple Chief monk made a public statement misleading all the buddhist worshippers about ” RELICS”. How many of you guys, went after him and paid respect to ” that forged relics”?
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If even dog shit would be introduced to you as FRUIT cake, you would spice them withhout doubt, that is the nature of STUPID sinhalaya.
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