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That even Cabinet Ministers were taken by surprise by this newspaper’s front page lead story last week was not the best example of transparency and good governance — supposedly the trademark of this Government. The story; that the European Union (EU) and Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs have agreed on 58 conditions for Sri [...]
VIP security; what about citizens’ security?
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s security detail came into parliamentary debate this week, and rightly so, but with an unseemly spectacle. The ruckus over who was right and who was wrong saw one MP hospitalised for trying to intervene and two suspended for going at each other’s throat. The downgrading of the former President’s security from [...]
May Day hijacked by politicians
Workers of the world – or at least in Sri Lanka – ‘Divide’. The rallying call of the International Workers, from the barricades as they romantically say, for workers of the world to ‘Unite’ is now a thing of the past. The interests of the working class have been submerged by the interests of the [...]
Putting the houses in order
Our Political Editor deals on this page with the state of confusion within the National Government on the issue of the Value Added Tax (VAT) and like the VAT itself, the confusion has been passed on to the people. Such confusion has become the hallmark of the UNP-SLFP coalition Government. It also betrays the competitive [...]
The economic heat is on
The heat is indeed unbearable, but the suffering multitude will know that, at least by Vesak next month, the weather will be kinder. Whether the people will be able to look with similar anticipation on the economic front is doubtful. Many know, with the ending of the Avurudu season, hard times are ahead. The Finance [...]