admin-lithic – President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga

12 December 202213 February 2023Congratulations, Your Majesty!

Speech made at the banquet to honour H. M. Queen Elizabeth II & H. R. H. Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh on the occasion of the golden jubilee of their wedding Holyrood Castle, Edinburgh, Scotland at the Commonwealth Conference -...

Good Governance, Speeches

12 December 202212 December 2022Honesty is a Way of Life

A personal treatise on Governance and Transparency I had very clear thoughts on this subject. I passionately detested dishonesty and still do and always wanted to eliminate corruption wherever I worked. I have sometimes asked myself from where I acquired...

Uncategorized

06 December 202206 December 2022Biography

Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga Executive President of Sri Lanka [1994 – 2005] Former Executive President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga was born on June 29, 1945 into a family with a long history of public service. Her father, Solomon Bandaranaike, an oxford educated...

Economic Development, Reforms and Legislations

06 December 202206 December 2022Economic Development

Introduction The CBK vision for Economic Development included: An equitable and inclusive development of the Nation’s economy based on indigenous natural and human resources. To increase per capita income and GDP to reach mid country income levels, eliminating poverty...

Education, Reforms and Legislations

05 December 202205 December 2022Education

Education Policy 1994-2005 and the road ahead President Kumaratunga’s presidency implemented policies aimed at building upon Sri Lanka’s standing as the regional success story in education (with a 92.5% adult literacy rate and 95% primary school enrollment rate even in...

Peace, Reforms and Legislations

05 December 202205 December 2022The Peace Process

“A lasting solution to the ethnic issues and terrorism in Sri Lanka or anywhere else, can only be found through negotiations and dialogue” – President Kumaratunga In 1994, Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict was at a critical juncture. Sri Lankans sought...

Reforms and Legislations

05 December 202205 December 2022Good Governance

Introduction This was an essential part of the CBK vision for Government. Good Governance embodied three main aspects. 1. The guarantee of fundamental freedom; ● the freedom to believe, think and worship, ● to speak freely, freedom of association, ●...

News

05 December 202205 December 2022The Right Honourable Ram Baran Yadav

President - Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal APRIL 27, 2015 I was devastated to learn of the catastrophe caused by a massive earthquake in Nepal last Saturday. I together with the people of Sri Lanka am deeply distressed about this...

Education, Speeches

15 October 202015 October 2020Education and Morality

Celebration of United Nations Day St. Thomas College, Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka OCTOBER 15, 2020 The United Nations Organisation (UNO) is indeed one of the World’s noblest creations. After two terrible World Wars in the 20th Century, world leaders realized...

Peace, Speeches

18 June 201918 June 2019Masterclass: a conversation between women Presidents

Search for Common Ground programme held in London, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2l4z-y4BCM