Sunday Times E-Paper

Editorial

Reactivate 17th Amendment before next elections

Pro-Government political analysts and pundits have hailed as outstanding the victory of the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) in last Saturday’s election to the Sabaragamuwa, Eastern and North Central provincial councils. But the government needs to look at the results not only in a magnanimous way but in a sober…

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Columns

• 5th Column

  The king and his tainted jesters

  

  My Dear Mahinda maama, I thought I must write to you again to congratulate you on yet another election victory in Sabaragamuwa, Rajarata and the East although I…

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• Political Column

  Much hangs in the balance over hung council in East

  

  The results of Last Saturday’s polls for three Provincial Councils were on a predictable note enabling the ruling United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) to capture the majority of…

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• The Economic Analysis

  Are we heading towards a balance of payments crisis?

  

  Last year’s massive trade deficit of US$ 9.8 billion led the country to a serious balance of payments crisis. Indications are that this year’s trade deficit would exceed…

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• Focus on Rights

  Readying the hangman’s noose

  It is a profound paradox of sorts that while Sri Lankans fight to save a hapless Sri Lankan housemaid from public execution in Saudi Arabia, this government itself…

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• Talk at the Cafe Spectator

  Why Mervyn did not go to the CPA dinner

  

  The weekly Cabinet meeting was advanced to 5 p.m. last Wednesday. This was because President Mahinda Rajapaksa was hosting a gala dinner for delegates of the 58th Commonwealth…

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• From the sidelines

  Sri Lankan legal experts say Nasheed resigned under duress

  

  A team of Sri Lankan lawyers has produced a scathing critique of the Report of the Maldivian Commission of National Inquiry (CoNI), which claimed that the ousting of…

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