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A pilot project to have staggered working hours for state sector employees in Battaramulla and adjoining areas is to be tried out for three months. The move is prompted by heavy traffic congestion – the result of many Government institutions drawing even greater traffic there. Last May, the Cabinet of Ministers granted approval to a [...]
Tomorrow’s Cabinet reshuffle more extensive than expected
Ministers, deputies and state ministers summoned to Presidential Secretariat; plum positions for some Malik signs agreements giving a wide role for China in Lanka’s economy; President off to Australia on Tuesday By Our Political Editor President Maithripala Sirisena, gave mixed signals, not unusually, when he vetoed his own demarche not to chair Cabinet meetings until [...]
Reflecting on your record with both parties
My dear Maithri, I thought I must write to you because you seem to be having a difficult time carrying out your work while juggling the challenges posed by Modi, Mahinda maama and the May Day – and even provincial councils are daring to defy you. All about you seem to be losing their heads [...]
GSP plus: Renewed opportunities and policy imperatives
The European Union’s decision last week to restore the GSP plus concession allows Sri Lankan exports tariff free entry to its 28 countries. This could be a turning point in the country’s trade as the EU is a foremost market for the country’s exports. This opportunity must be seized to increase exports to the EU [...]
The draft CTA is of concern to all Sri Lankans, without exception
The perception that Sri Lanka’s proposed Counter-Terror Act (CTA) will affect only those of one community or another engaging in ‘terrorist’ activities and is therefore, of incidental concern to the citizenry at large is a misapprehension that is most unfortunate. CTA poses dangers beyond the PTA and the PSO Let us be clear. Vaguely drafted [...]
Trump trumped by media he threatened
During his presidential election campaign last year the ever-loquacious and unpredictable Donald Trump threatened to change Washington which he called a swamp. Not even four months after occupying the Oval Office Trump is sinking in the swamp he said he would clean up. Caught up in a labyrinth of charges of misconduct and worse, several [...]
The Second Coming of Modi with the Indian Gospel of Salvation
But China’s Jinping reveals why all roads will start from Beijing Hallelujah! It was Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Second Advent to Sri Lanka. And even as he stepped foot on the newly made tarmac at Katunayake’s Bandaranaike International Airport last Thursday evening, he would have whiffed in the hot breeze that blew from abroad, [...]