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An order by a local Magistrate asking Interpol to issue an international arrest warrant on the Editor of a London-based website reporting on Sri Lanka figured for a second week in succession at Tuesday’s weekly ministerial meeting. Raising issue was Telecommunications and Digital Infrastructure Minister Harin Fernando. He said it took the Financial Crimes Investigation [...]
Economy under threat by rekindled communalism
No single factor has retarded the country’s economic development more than communal violence. The current communal tensions in several parts of the country could create instability and uncertainty that would destabilise the economy beyond recovery and mark the death knell of the country’s efforts to resolve the current economic crisis. Orchestrated no doubt with intent [...]
Show your gratitude to the consumer
It is with kindness and compassion that I wish to tell the people that without gratitude there will be no progress. We need to learn that and practise it. Those who have heartfelt concern for our country need to cultivate this virtue. Today due to the lack of the spirit of gratitude, parents have lost [...]
That call to the IGP and the undermining of law
For close to ten years, Sri Lanka was ruled by a Presidency under which calls were openly given by politicians to heads of the judiciary, the police and hapless public servants ordering them to act or not to act as the case may be. This is not to say that such gross misrule started with [...]
Lawmakers a law unto themselves when helping themselves
Any talk of a pay or allowance hike for Members of Parliament (MPs) is a contentious one, particularly, given the high level of public scepticism concerning the conduct of lawmakers and the general perception that they are overpaid, overly pampered and don’t fully discharge their duties as elected representatives. So, when Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe [...]
Delays in high-profile probes: Questions about nexus between VIPs of rival parties
Detectives complain that interim reports sought by ruling politicos have ended up in the hands of the suspects and their lawyers IGP in deep trouble, reprimanded by President and possible probe by Constitutional Council, but PM defends police chief Sticky issues remain over China-backed Hambantota Port project; new controversy over China-backed irrigation projects also; how [...]
CEO Sri Lanka
My dear Maithri, I thought I must write to you, not because I have taken you off my Christmas card list but because most of us are quite confused about what has been going on in this Paradise in recent times and we thought we should ask you why, especially since you have now been [...]
THE DANGER: Will Lanka go off Trump America’s radar?
Sirisena sends a ‘Dear Donald ‘letter to Trump to dump war crimes probe To the victor, the spoils. Not only the scalp but the professed allegiance, too, of the fallen, however insincere it may sound; even as Hillary Clinton demonstrated – moments after it became clear she had lost key swing states – when she [...]
JR’s trenchant remark on the non-aligned movement
The death of Fidel Castro marked the last of the Mohicans, the last towering figure of 20th century revolutionaries. The sad but not unexpected news of the death late last month of the ailing Castro brought to mind a little known anecdote, little known because only three persons were privy to it. The other two [...]