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The man in charge of America’s foreign affairs, US Secretary of State John Kerry was on Tuesday slipped an invite to visit Lanka by Foreign Minister G. L. Peiris when he happened to meet him at an informal meeting on the sidelines of the 21st ASEAN Regional Forum in Myanmar. “I invited him to visit [...]
Namal’s pro-poor mega project comes before Parliament
Hambantota District Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa will present a Bill to incorporate The Parents Foundation. The objectives of the Foundation are seven fold. They are: To assist relevant authorities with the approval of such authorities to formulate and implement suitable projects for the advancement of women and children in Sri Lanka in social, economic and cultural [...]
Critical constraints to achieving higher economic growth
Macroeconomic imbalances of fiscal and trade deficits, foreign debt, an anti-export bias, uncertainty in economic policies and educational inadequacies are critical constraints hampering a higher rate of economic growth, according to Dr. Indrajit Coomaraswamy who gave the recent South Asian Policy Research Institute (SAPRI) lecture on “Prospects for Middle Income Sri Lanka: Challenges & Opportunities”. [...]
Will Uva reflect people’s growing frustration with mainstream politics?
The Uva provincial council election set to take place next month is the last of the nine provincial elections the UPFA coalition holds in its second term. There is much interest in relation to this election, the final one before presidential and general elections expected early next year. It’s being regarded by analysts almost as [...]
Indifference to the plight of the desperate
When a country or a people are starved of basic compassion, profit alone cannot ensure stability. Equally, toleration of savagery in one form can only breed greater savagery in many other guises. This is the abiding lesson surely that all great religions teach us. Greater scrutiny required of deportation policies Even during the grim conflict [...]
Central Bank usurps Cabinet powers in bid to change US policy
The UPFA Government’s saga of hiring more PR agencies in the United States to lobby and win over President Barrack Obama’s administration continues. Paradoxically, this is whilst being engaged domestically in a bitter war of words with the US. Just this week, the External Affairs Ministry (EAM) issued a strange news release with the heading [...]
Mahela: Cricketer and Gentleman
My Dear Mahela, I thought I must write to you when I learnt that you had announced your retirement from Test cricket and that you are playing your last Test match this week. The announcement came as a surprise because you could have played for another year or two, but coming from you, it is [...]