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Home » ColumnsGovt. initiated debate on SriLankan fools nobody of its final destination
As the country this week was being inundated by heavy rains leading to flooding and landslides, Parliamentarians spent two days debating the future of the loss-making State-owned SriLankan Airlines (SLA). However, they did not wholly forget the people struck by the natural disaster. Led by Speaker Karu Jayasuriya, lawmakers condoled with the people affected by [...]
Secrets revealed: Why Uganda ignored present government and invited Rajapaksa
With a free Business and First Class return ticket from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa travelled to Uganda to receive a welcome afforded to heads of state and government, it has now transpired. He was afforded all the courtesies extended to other heads of state and government. The Business Class ticket [...]
Corruption cases: No major indictments; blame game continues
Four ministers on the war path demanding immediate action against corrupt VIPs, but President pre-empts move and promises confidential briefing Rajitha says mole or moles in the Cabinet leaking information to Rajapaksas, says they will be thrown out Crime rate rising as high as flood waters Four cabinet ministers set out on a campaign last [...]
Things that got washed away in the flood waters
My Dear Weather Gods, I thought of writing to you because you have caused havoc in Paradise leaving many dead, scores missing and the whole country plunged into despair with continuing rains and heavy floods which are yet to recede. People are trying hard to come to terms with what has happened over the past [...]
The heavens poured and atlas shrugged
Sri Lankan parliamentarians appear to have been moved to unseemly mirth regarding the floodwaters which devastated the country this week, causing more than sixty three officially reported deaths and thousands more missing, with even greater numbers rendered homeless and destitute. Warranting a serious response As sorrowful scenes were recorded across the island, the gravity of [...]
Latest population projection of 25 million poses serious challenges
The most recent population projections expect the Island’s population to reach 25 million by 2042 and 25.8 million by 2062. It is expected to stabilise around the mid 2060s at 25-26 million. This is a significant departure from earlier projections that expected population stability much earlier at around 23-24 million in the 2030s and to [...]
Come and share the peace of Vesak with us
Jealousy, anger, hatred or taking revenge will bring bad karma not only to the person who harbours that ill will, but to others also. Happiness is the greatest wealth. Without self-discipline, humility and well-considered thought, there cannot be happiness. For that happiness, good health must be the most valued asset. ‘Arogya Parama labha’ is what [...]
Who gave ‘official’ status to Mahinda’s Ugandan jaunt?
Politicians will be politicians: Either in office or out. Once the notion has set in and taken hold that public wealth is theirs to be enjoyed, public money theirs to be used, public coffers theirs to be squandered on paying for their every whim and vanity, it becomes almost impossible to dethrone the belief in [...]
Talking rubbish is part of our garbage problem
Plans to write about the recently concluded Anti-Corruption Summit that British Prime Minister David Cameron laid out at Lancaster House as his personal contribution to ridding the world of this “cancer” as he called it, went astray. If Mr. Cameron thought that in one day he and US Secretary of State John Kerry who had [...]