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Rajitha says he has documentary evidence of former VVIP’s secret accounts in Dubai, but scepticism on what could or would be done Presidential Task Force appointed more than two years ago to probe corruption, but little or nothing has happened Donor conference called to seek funds for rehabilitation, but SriLankan gets billions more to stay [...]
Rude politics
My dear Dayasiri, I thought I should write to you because you seem to be always in the news these days for a variety of reasons- whether it is running after Susanthika to prevent her from selling her silver medal, arguing against private medical schools or even commenting on the girth and worth of our [...]
Sirisena in bid to salvage Nuwara Eliya President’s House
A British mansion, once known as Queen’s Cottage (and also as The Lodge), was the home of colonial governors responsible for Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. Located at Bambarakele in Nuwara Eliya, also known then as ‘Little England’, the mansion, a protected monument under the Antiquities Ordinance, may go into rack and ruin if not repaired [...]
Dangers of unseemly ministerial outbursts to free speech
However much they may genuflect to the concept of free speech, Sri Lanka’s politicians are quite unable to shake off a constitutional dislike of that theory in abrasive practice. Remarkably clever traits of politicians ‘Yahapalanaya’ Ministers appear not to be different to their predecessors in office in that sense, excepting of course the Mahinda Rajapaksa [...]
Despite massive trade deficit in first quarter increased exports in March lend hope of an export recovery
The trade deficit reached a massive US$2.5 billion in the first three months of the year. If the trade performance continues in this way, this year’s trade deficit could exceed US$10 billion. However there are expectations that the trade deficit could be brought down owing to an expected increase in exports and reduction in some [...]
Nationalise SAITM, demands GMOA: But can Govt do it even if it wants to?
Not for the first time the intransigent GMOA has once again made a demand that no Government can fulfil without bringing in fresh legislation. And the question must arise whether the GMOA, knowing full well the limitations of a government’s summary power to rush new legislation through Parliament, has a hidden political agenda to create [...]
These days of low and odour
Well what do you know! Our mettlesome minister in charge of the country’s law and order Sagala Ratnayaka made a foray into the Cinnamon Gardens Police Station last week and discovered multiple horrors we are told in news reports. To enumerate them all in some detail would take more editorial space than the editor would [...]