Verité in the News

    The Cabinet decision to ban women from purchasing liquor is unconstitutional: Verite Research
    by |17 January 2018|Verité in the News
    “The Cabinet Decision to ban women from purchasing liquor is unconstitutional,” says Colombo-based interdisciplinary think-tank Verité Research. We publish below the note issued by Verité Research in full: Women are permitted to purchase liquor: On 10 January 2018, the Minister of...
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    Lankan activists continue agitation against archaic alcohol laws despite new setback
    by |17 January 2018|Verité in the News
    Petitioners of a case filed in Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court on Wednesday challenging a decision to revoke an order to allow women to be employed in places of the production and sale of alcohol, were scrambling together on Thursday to...
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    “Who’s the thief?”: The latest drama in politics
    by |11 January 2018|Verité in the News
    වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව බලයට පත් වී තෙවසරක් ගතව තිබේ. යහපාලනයක් ඇති කරන බවට ප්‍රතිඥා දෙමින් බලයට පත් වූ වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුවේ මැතිවරණ ව්‍යාපාරය තුළ විධායක ජනාධිපති ක්‍රමය අහෝසි කිරීම සහ පසුගිය රාජපක්ෂ පාලන සමයේ සිදු වූ බව කියන දූෂණ සහ අක්‍රමිකතා සඳහා...
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    The promises of the government of Sri Lanka remain in limbo three years later
    by |09 January 2018|Verité in the News
    Chathuri Dissanayake Colombo, 9 ene (EFE).- El actual presidente de Sri Lanka, Maithripala Sirisena, llegó al poder con el objetivo de plantar cara a la corrupción y cambiar la cultura política del anterior mandatario Mahinda Rajapaksa, pero, tres años después,...
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    The promises of the government of Sri Lanka remain in limbo three years later – W Radio
    by |09 January 2018|Verité in the News
    Chathuri Dissanayake Colombo, 9 ene (EFE).- El actual presidente de Sri Lanka, Maithripala Sirisena, llegó al poder con el objetivo de plantar cara a la corrupción y cambiar la cultura política del anterior mandatario Mahinda Rajapaksa, pero, tres años después,...
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    President of Sri Lanka celebrates 3 years in power amid doubts over his mandate
    by |08 January 2018|Verité in the News
    Colombo, 8 ene (EFE).- El presidente de Sri Lanka, Maithripala Sirisena, celebró hoy el tercer aniversario de su llegada al poder con una agenda repleta de actividades que incluyó la inauguración de varias infraestructuras, mientras algunas voces críticas le recriminaban...
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    Three years: Glass half full?
    by |08 January 2018|Verité in the News
    President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe On 8 January 2015, the Sri Lankan polity experienced an unexpected change. A President who planned to rule until he could hand over power to his son lost by half a million...
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    Is Sri Lanka on course for a lost decade?
    by |07 January 2018|Verité in the News
    May 19, 2019 will mark 10 years since the civil war in Sri Lanka ended with the complete annihilation of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Post-civil war Sri Lanka has been a story of missed opportunities. Former President Mahinda...
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    Trump’s global credibility is shot
    by |06 December 2017|Verité in the News
    (CNN)No, the entire world is not obsessed with Donald Trump, but you have to travel far to reach a place where people are not following closely -- and worrying deeply -- about what's happening in Washington. I traveled some 10,000...
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    On Balanced Growth at Rajarata University
    by |03 December 2017|Verité in the News
    Last Thursday, November 23rd, university economists and their invited guests gathered at the Rajarata University of Sri Lanka (outside Colombo) to hold the annual conference of the Sri Lanka Forum of University Economists (SLFUE). Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy, the Governor of...
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