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SLFP ministers say MOU likely to be renewed from December, despite rumblings over various issues Heavy criticism over delays in probing high profile cases of corruption, killings and attacks on the media Deep concern over skyrocketing cost of living also, minister wants increase in price of LP gas SriLankan board continues to be under heavy [...]
A change in the order
My dear Angelo and the boys, I thought I should write to you, because most of the country is talking about you and describing your performance as a ‘national disaster’, especially after you gave the nation hope by beating favourites India, only to let a golden opportunity slip away by losing disastrously to Pakistan a [...]
Garbage ‘pekoe’ at two tea estates in Nuwara Eliya district
Small parts of what were once lush tea plantations in the Nuwara Eliya District — that earned a worldwide reputation for its high grown quality tea — may now become garbage dumps. Plantation Industries Minister Navin Dissanayake has proposed four hectares from tea estates managed by two private firms be taken over for use as [...]
A committed consistent and predictable economic programme imperative
Last Sunday’s column that discussed the economic consequences of the recent natural disasters underscored three crucial imperatives. These were: the need to prevent or mitigate these occurrences, developing a more robust economy that would be resilient to withstand such disasters and the adoption of a certain consistent and committed economic programme. Agreement on economic policy [...]
Constitutional reforms stagnating like garbage
It is a typical incongruity of these times that constitutional reforms promising protection of civil liberties are discussed in tight-lipped seriousness in Colombo even while the police seem unable to arrest the hate mongering leader of the Bodu Bala Sena, Galaboda Gnanasara despite two arrest warrants being issued by the courts. Business establishments of the [...]
Ravi moves to cleanse our diplomessy
If the news flowing along the grapevine is correct-and the ear-splitting silence from the Foreign Ministry seems to suggest it is – then the new Foreign Minister deserves much more than a pat on the back. In fact a few hallelujahs would certainly not be out of place for the cleansing process he envisages was [...]
Dayasiri’s head turns too big to fit his new sporting boots
Sports Minister blasts President for assigning lotteries to Foreign Minister Sports Minister Dayasiri Jayasekera can play with his marbles as much as he wants to in his own Ministry of Sports. But what right does he have to interfere and pass judgment upon the state of play in other ministries? Instead of concentrating and trying [...]