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Since being set up almost one year ago, the Police Department’s Financial Crimes Investigation Division (FCID) has probed a multitude of cases, some high profile while others are of lesser importance. Senior DIG Ravi Waidyalankara, the man who directs those investigations, did not perhaps envisage that he would have to oversee a probe that concerned him. [...]
Lanka’s role in solving Maldivian crisis
Nasheed was in Colombo hotel from Sunday to Thursday meeting with top Western envoys, but picture of Sirisena meeting a fake Sirisena holds secret talks with Namal amid speculation of a deal to drop investigations in return for party control Constitution-making runs into stumbling block; debate on PM’s resolution put off; Rajapaksa and others may propose amendments [...]
When a law prof breaks his silence
My dear GL, I thought I must write to you because you are in the news once again, telling us what we should do and what we should not to do in making constitutions, just when we had heaved a sigh of relief thinking that we had seen the last of you, after you didn’t [...]
Reforms fundamental for accelerating higher education
Higher education has an important role in Sri Lanka’s economic and social development. The development of quality university and tertiary education that is at the pinnacle of the education pyramid is vital for the country to leap forward into a developed nation. The importance of education in the development process is widely recognized. It is [...]
Dispelling gathering storm clouds over Sri Lanka
As former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa emerged smiling into television cameras this week following summons issued by Sri Lanka’s Presidential Commission on Serious Fraud et al (PRECIFAC), his jibes were clear. ‘So there were rogues in our time’ he said, ‘…there were rogues in the past as well and rogues also, in the present.’ Disinclination [...]
Stop impunity of the khakied fraternity
Aficionados of Groucho Marx, that hilariously witty comedian, might recall that he once threatened to horsewhip somebody- if he had a horse, that is. President Sirisena is no jester, not even when he was in the court of Medamulana Mahinda. Moreover he is probably not as acquainted with horses as he is with asses having [...]
Govt opens Pandora’s Box and sets free Mahinda’s power broking hopes again
In ordinary times, local government elections elicit about as much excitement as a donkey race would rouse at Royal Ascot. This year’s scheduled polls would have been held and the elected declared councillors with the general public only taking a passing interest in its outcome as in years past. It is the lowest level of [...]