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Canada’s delegation to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo will be led by Deepak Obhrai, Parliamentary Secretary (Deputy Minister) to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. He represents Calgary East for the Conservative Party of Canada. Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper last week reiterated he would not attend. The main reason he claims [...]
Wishing the north’s chief minister well
As he embarks on his official duties in this month of October 2013, Chief Minister of the Northern Provincial Council and former judge of Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court C.V. Wigneswaran must be left in no doubt of the hopes reposed in him by Tamil and Sinhala moderates despite extremists who revile him post-elections. Overheated election [...]
India and the emerging new North-South power balance
he oath-taking ceremony of the new Northern Provincial Council’s Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran at Temple Trees on Monday before President Mahinda Rajapaksa signalled what could possibly be a new chapter in the hitherto troubled relationship between North and South. That followed the equally historic event of the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) elections last month that [...]
Pouring advice on a duck’s back
When advice based on fundamental economic principles is flouted a county’s economy could drift into crises. Good economic advice repeatedly given by international agencies and economists is like pouring water on a duck’s back: it runs away as rapidly as given. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has once again given sound advice on the management [...]
TNA détente with MR; but cracks erupt within
MR has cordial meeting with Wigneswaran and Sampanthan, presents statue of Hindu god as token of cooperation Khurshid comes, concurs and conquers on important issues; sidelines poaching crisis President Mahinda Rajapaksa had a thoughtful gift for C.V. Wigneswaran after he swore him at three different times last Monday morning. The first was as an elected member of [...]
Big, bigger and the biggest: The Cabinet grows
My dear new deputy ministers, I thought I must write to congratulate you on your appointment as deputy ministers this week. I am sure Mahinda maama has very good reasons to appoint you to these posts and that you fill a long overdue need to make our country a true paradise! With your appointment, Sri [...]
Mangala tirade on Matara attack almost derails COPE Report debate
A two-day Parliamentary debate on the report of the Committee On Public Enterprises (COPE) which took place on Thursday and Friday became another routine debate with no concrete proposals for punitive action against those faulted with wrongdoing within the State sector. While the COPE debate continued much along partisan lines, the infighting within the United [...]
Wignes: Star of northern hopes
Heavens be praised! At long last the whole pantheon of Hindu gods have showered their manifold blessings on Lanka’s Tamils by manifesting in the form of former Supreme Court Judge Vishwalingam Wigneswaran a messiah to lead them to the promised land. What a contrast from the bloodthirsty demon who usurped the mantle of Tamil leadership [...]