Britain was given the opportunity to grasp an important point the other day. The United Nations Human Rights Council took advantage of a regular review of the situation there to urge the British government to call a referendum on the formulation of a written constitution and preferably a republican one that would confer sovereignty on the people instead of vesting it in the British monarchy.

The Government is fully committed and prepared to make sacrifices and be committed to protect all faiths and their associated sites of worship asserted President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday at a ceremony to donate financial aid to religious institutions held at the Presidential Secretariat.

The Government has appointed retired Supreme Court Judge Chandra Nihal Jayasinghe as the new Sri Lankan High Commissioner for the United Kingdom with effect from July 1 this year, sources of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed www.news.lk.

TERRORISM – those who practise it and those who support it – has no place in Canada.Ottawa officially placed the Tamil Tigers on its list of terrorist organizations two years ago. The LTTE – Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam – is the guerrilla group that’s used extortion, assassinations, suicide bombings and the forced recruitment of child soldiers in its bloody fight for an independent state within the island nation of Sri Lanka.