Overseas travel ban on Basil temporarily lifted

Vehicle permits to MPs suspended for a period of one year

The Government has decided to suspend the issuing of vehicle permits to Members of Parliament for a period of one year. The Finance Ministry said the decision was taken as part of the temporary measures put in place to ease the pressure on the Sri Lankan Rupee with effect from midnight today. The importation of vehicles for Government Ministries, Departments, Statutory Boards, State owned enterprises will also be suspended until further notice. Other steps taken to ease the pressure on the Ru

29 Sep, 2018

Three top international judges to visit Sri Lanka

Three judges, from three different legal traditions, will visit Sri Lanka and speak on the role that constitutional courts have played in their respective countries, at a forum on 4 October in Colombo. The three judges; Chief Justice Alejandro Linares-Cantillo, Justice Edwin Cameron, and Justice Ilwon Kang, come from three different legal traditions: the Latin American, the South African, and the East Asian, respectively. Each of their societies had to manage different socio-political and hist

29 Sep, 2018

Sooka says Sri Lanka must explain discovery of cluster remnants

As the new President of the Convention on Cluster Munitions, Sri Lanka must explain why de-miners have repeatedly found?cluster remnants in the 2009 war zone, given the ongoing denial, a former member of a?UN panel on Sri Lanka said. All?the evidence points to government forces using cluster munitions in 2009 against densely populated areas that they unilaterally declared?safe for hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians, the Executive Director of the International Truth and Justice Project,?Ya

29 Sep, 2018