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Sri Lanka is in the middle of a raging controversy at the UN over the world body’s suspension of the media credentials of a US journalist, Matthew Lee of Inner City Press (ICP). He has been advocating the rights of the Tamils in his daily blog. V. Rudrakumar, described as the prime minister of the [...]
Power failures deal blackout blow to Govt.
Special ministerial committee grills CEB; evidence emerges that little or no maintenance work carried out Sirisena furious, as President’s House loses power, walks out complaining of embarrassment if foreign dignitary was present Rajapaksa romps back, roars at Hyde Park saying ‘if you can’t rule, give it to me’; conflict over 38 dissident MPs It was [...]
Caught on the leg side
My Dear Arjuna, Thilanga, Lasith and Angelo, I thought I should be writing to you this week because it was twenty years ago this week – on the day that we played Afghanistan, to be precise – that we won the World Cup. Much has happened since then and I think it would be worthwhile [...]
Can we improve our external finances this year?
Everyone knows that the external finances of the country are in dire straits. The depletion of foreign reserves has been owing to the large trade deficits coupled with lesser worker remittances. Capital outflows compounded the problem. The all important question is whether this year’s trade performance, earnings from tourism and ICT services and remittances would [...]
A run-away government and the president’s ‘Pirivena’ mandate
There is more than a trace of Grimm’s Fairy Tales in the lofty disdain with which the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe coalition leadership lectures to Sri Lankans on its inherited economic woes. One tale succeeds another, all equally stupendous and some patently deserving of ridicule. Achieving monumental confusion First we were told that recovering the Rajapaksa hidden loot [...]
Kidney problem: The solution is in the salt
Much research has been done on Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) by world bodies, yet the cause or causes remain unknown, leading to the term CKDU, “U” being for unknown. In the process, simple facts of physiology and pathology have been overlooked. I aim to throw a great deal of light on the matter and provide [...]