Transparency and corruption in public service

What Caused the Human-Elephant Conflict in Hambantota?

Admin November 24, 2020

Sachini D. Perera Massive human-elephant conflicts are currently developing in a number of areas due to the encroachment of elephants that lost their habitats due to large-scale illegal development activities carried out near dense forests. One of the highly exposed areas suffering from

Transparency and corruption in public service

Be self-sufficient and support the COVID-19 food crisis!

Admin November 19, 2020

Sachini D. Perera Our country has been severely affected  by the Covid-19 virus as we  now face the second wave of the pandemic. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) stated that Sri Lanka is experiencing a continuous fall in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) from 3.5% to 0.5%, after events such as  the 2018 constitutional crisis, […]

Transparency and corruption in public service

Keeping the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons An introduction to concepts on corruption

Admin November 17, 2020

Ananda Dharmapriya Jayasekara “The time to guard against corruption and tyranny, is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.” This is a famous quote of the third President of […]

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The 20th Amendment and Freedom of Press and Media

Admin November 17, 2020

Dhanushka Silva The 20th constitution amendment has won two thirds of majority vote and now it has become the law in the country. The purpose of this article is to discuss the impact of certain provisions in the amendment towards the freedom of press and media and how these impacts were controlled with the final […]

Freedom of expression and fundamental rights Transparency and corruption in public service

THE FUTURE OF SRI LANKA’S INFORMATION ACT

Admin October 29, 2020

Sunimal Hettiarachchi Four years have passed since the Right to Information Act No. 05 of 2016 was passed by parliament in Sri Lanka. Regulations and gazettes were also enacted to set up the mechanism and methodology for the application of the Act in order to make it operational. On the 28th of September this year, […]