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The Meethotamulla Avurudu tragedy where a fire at the mountainous garbage dump snuffed out more than 30 lives and left several missing has laid bare some incredible stories. ne such instance was how a food importer had dumped a large stock of outdated sausages there. A group picked up the stocks, washed them, re-packed them [...]
Sri Lanka’s massive foreign debt generates a debt trap
Sri Lanka’s foreign debt has reached proportions when its servicing is a serious problem. It has to borrow to service the massive foreign debt of around US$47 billion that has accumulated mostly over the last decade. Undoubtedly the country is in a foreign debt trap as the government must borrow to meet annual debt repayments [...]
Priorities in tackling garbage and counter-terror
The law and the Constitution are of relevance not only in regard to sensational struggles between the citizen and the State when the security of the country is said to be at stake. Instead, when we refer to the breakdown of the Rule of Law, this is also reflected in the most mundane failures of [...]
President upbeat despite setbacks and continuing UNP-SLFP disputes
Preparations finalised for May Day show of force; Sirisena says he gave approval for JO rally at Galle Face EU’s GSP Plus concessions may not come this year; failure to meet deadlines and pressure from Tamil Diaspora SLFP ministers oppose PM’s proposed law to set up wide-powered energy supply committee By Our Political Editor President [...]
Stench of death
My dear residents of Meetotamulla, I am writing to you in shock and horror at a time when the entire country is talking about the disaster in your area and about how some of you had to pay with your lives because some people couldn’t get their act together and decide what to do with [...]
Avurudu avalanche reveals Lanka’s political graveyard
A NATION AT WAR OVER RUBBISH After Mount Garbage blew its top on Good Friday, blame game for a nation’s shame continues to pile up with no solution in sight Surrounded by an army contingent and a police task force to boot, Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wicremesinghe visits the scene of national carnage wearing a [...]
May does a Mahinda but without astrology
So it is May’s day. Prime Minister Theresa May who pledged that she will run her course as Prime Minister and dismissed the idea of an early election did a rather sudden u-turn. Those who remember the Margaret Thatcher era would recall her October 1980 conference speech when she told those waiting “with bated breath” [...]