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January 3 As 2016 dawned, the National Unity Government was still in conflict with major differences between the UNP and the SLFP and the split within the SLFP itself widening. But on the positive side, plans were being drawn up for a new agreement for the two major parties to work together at least till [...]
Now where can Santa be?
My dear Santa Claus, I thought I must write to you even though you must be busy these days doing your rounds, distributing gifts to everyone this Christmas season. I am sure you will have a difficult task on your hands over here in Paradise, deciding what to get for everyone which is why I [...]
Talk at the cafe
SLAF chief allowed to test India’s flying machines India accorded a red carpet welcome to Sri Lanka Air Force Commander Kapila Jayampathy and allowed him to fly its Advanced Light attack helicopter and sit at the controls of the Tejas fighter Jet. These pictures show Air Marshal Jayampathy taking off in the helicopter and sitting [...]
A vast criminal enterprise waiting to rule again
The assertion that Sri Lanka’s criminal justice system is so weak in capacity that justice is well nigh impossible is one of the most dangerously misleading misconceptions that we constantly hear. No simplistic reasons for failures in justice When acquittals are handed down as illustrated most recently in the jury trial relating to the killing [...]
Modest economic growth in 2016 after avoiding serious economic crisis
Christmas day is a day of glad tidings and of peace and joy. The good news this year is that the country averted a serious economic crisis and is moving towards macroeconomic stability and growth. May this Christmas usher in peace and social harmony that are vital for the country’s economic development. Economy in 2016 [...]
So why not join the blame game
Whenever I watch TV in Colombo especially those seemingly endless political debates that almost every station thinks it must programme to be seen as au fait, most participants come armed with reams of newspaper articles and clippings. They are put to such productive use, at times given the importance of some great religious texts, in [...]
Tale of the magical Christmas tree
In the beginning of December in the year of the Lord 2016, the new wise men of Phantom Island saw that darkness had swiftly spread across the face of the land and that it was not good. And so it came to pass that they held council and said unto each other, “when the multitude [...]