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Both major parties finalising plans for local polls, but different views on when they will be held Anti-Corruption Committee Secretariat closed down, but PM’s office sets up PR unit with similar tasks New Ports Minister Samarasinghe works out compromise on Hambantota, signing likely within weeks By Our Political Editor President Maithripala Sirisena hurriedly interrupted the [...]
40 years a politician
My dear Green Man, I thought I must write to you to congratulate you on completing forty years of uninterrupted service as a Member of Parliament – a distinction that, if memory serves me right, no one else in the present Parliament can claim, not even Mahinda maama, even though he entered Parliament before you. [...]
Rs. 600 million to take GPO back to old address
The Government is to embark on a Rs. 600 million project to renovate the General Post Office (GPO), a historic landmark located opposite the Janadipathi Mandirya. Thereafter, the GPO will function from this location as it did for over a century. At present it functions at Bristol Street in Fort. Behind the new project is [...]
Current political uncertainty serious setback to economic development
Political stability is a precondition for economic development. Doubts of the coalition of the two main parties continuing in office after the end of this year is a serious setback to the economy. The breakup of the unity government at the end of this year would result in considerable political instability that would be a [...]
The United Nations’ ‘bad parenting’ record
United Nations Special Rapporteur Ben Emmerson QC’s warning to the Sri Lankan Government following last week’s mission visit to the country was certainly the most irascible that we have seen from a UN mandate holder in a while. After more than two years of the United Nations’ uncritically accepting sunshiny rhetoric from an administration that [...]
Moratu Uni VC gives dogs and cats the third degree
Anyone with an ounce of human compassion and respect for all life on earth would not have failed to be shocked, horrified and distressed when on Tuesday evening television news cameras showed scenes of dogs and cats in the throes of death at the Moratuwa University grounds after being darted with a deadly chemical by [...]
That, Mr Speaker, is not the whole story
It is one thing to say that some politicians are making their children ashamed of them. It is more meaningful to tell the public why this is so. What makes children react to parental actions in a manner that causes the children to virtually turn their backs on politician fathers? That surely is the crucial [...]