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There is no longer a possibility of continuing foreign funded growth strategies or doing business as usual to achieve high economic growth. Fundamental flaws in the economy require to be addressed to benefit from the propitious global conditions that could enable Sri Lanka’s economic growth. The reduction of the fiscal deficit and appropriate monetary, fiscal [...]
Taking heed of clear warning signals
Certain aspects of the functioning of the Wickremesinghe-Sirisena government raise valid concerns as to whether anti-democratic Rajapaksa policies of the previous era are being continued but in a far craftier and skilful manner. This is a concern that ranges across the spectrum, from the accountability question to basic issues of good governance and the Rule [...]
Nat. Govt. to part ways for local polls next year
Sirisena’s decision to lead SLFP campaign turns election into a battle for vote of confidence If SLFP goes it alone, what happens to the UPFA and to Mahinda Rajapaksa UNP also confident, PM’s economic plan and November Budget likely to boost the party’s chances JVP, SLMC object to demarcation of wards and new requirements, adding [...]
Playing pandu with the port
My Dear Captain Cool, I thought I must write to you not because the West Indies team and your old friend Sir Gary Sobers are touring the country and our cricket team has somehow found a way to start winning again but because you are also in the news once more, although I am not [...]
Drunken DIG to be hauled before Police Commission
Speaker Karu Jayasuriya in his capacity as the Constitutional Council’s Chairman, on Thursday asked the newly set up Police Commission to inquire into the alleged misbehaviour of a Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG). The call was made at the first meeting the members of the Constitutional Council had with the Police Commission at the Parliament [...]
Mahinda’s temple sermon on Geneva conceals the cause, distorts the effect
Shunning Parliament where he was listed to speak on the Geneva report last Friday, where his ‘no show’ had wrapped him in a silence that far outweighed all the gold in King Solomon’s fabled mines, Mahinda Rajapaksa found comfort in seeking refuge at his political office in Narahenpita’s Abayaramaya Temple on Sunday, to give voice [...]
The case of passports lost and found
Alice thought things were curious. Well some things even curiouser. But the case of Wimal Weerawansa MP, known to one and all as the “rathu sahodaraya” sounds far more curious than anything Alice would have encountered in Wonderland. In fact it is so curious that it takes not only the banana but the kehel mala [...]