Editorial

Illegal migration: Two sides

People smuggling and asylum seekers have been competing for space in the media for some time now, and succeeding in grabbing the headlines. The focus at the moment is on the boatloads of Sri Lankans, as the headline in our report on the subject last week had it “risking blue…

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Columns

• 5th Column

  Leaving political stones unturned

  

  My Dear Rishad, I never thought I would be writing to you, but I think I must do so now, especially as you are in the news for…

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• Political Column

  President moves to rebuild Govt’s image; cracks within UNP widens

  

  In the light of mounting public discontent over a number of recent issues, President Mahinda Rajapaksa cracked the whip on his cabinet ministers this week. It came when…

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• The Economic Analysis

  Euphoria of borrowing insensitive to debt burden

  

  For several decades since independence there was euphoria about the country receiving more and more foreign aid. The hankering for aid was perhaps an understandable post-colonial syndrome. It…

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• Focus on Rights

  Presidential regret is certainly not the core question

  Protesting Muslims who thronged Colombo’s streets demanding public attention in regard to the plight of their community in Mannar are as much a part of the democratic process…

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• Talk at the Cafe Spectator

  Rajapaksa bombshell: More UNPers will cross over, but Jayasekera mystery continues

  

  President Mahinda Rajapaksa dropped a political bombshell at last Thursday’s meeting of the National Executive Committee of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP).  He said a group of…

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• From the sidelines

  Ethnic polarisation and the Eastern Provincial Council election

  With the closing of nominations for Provincial Council elections to be held in September for the North Central, Sabaragamuwa and Eastern Provinces, it is already apparent that the…

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