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Piyasena Gamage, the latest State Minister appointed by President Maithripala Sirisena, made news straightaway – only for the wrong reasons. He got rebuffed by the Police when he asked for crack STF commandos for his son, and then went on to face allegations that he berated a policeman in a rural station for apprehending one [...]
Sitting in office
My dear Maithri, I thought I should write to you to congratulate you because you are completing three years in the highest office in Paradise tomorrow. I suppose celebrations are in order but I know you are worried about what the next two years will bring, given recent developments in the Green and Blue camps. [...]
A shameful saga of monumental corruption
Auspicious times or not, Sri Lanka certainly rang in 2018 singularly inauspiciously as damning revelations of the monumental financial scam right in the bowels of the nation’s Central Bank were revealed to a badly shell-struck public even as the New Year had scarce been allowed to draw its breath. Fairy tales on battling corruption The [...]
Economic prospects: Political instability threat to economic growth in 2018 and beyond
Global economic conditions, political stability and effective implementation of pragmatic economic policies would determine the country’s economic performance this year. Of these three, political conditions would be the foremost determinant of the country’s economic growth, not only for this year, but for several years ahead. Economic outlook Despite the unstable political environment being a serious [...]
Bond scam Commission’s report starts year with a dynamite bang
Not all the fireworks that exploded on New Year’s Eve in the Lankan sky to herald the advent of 2018 AD could have matched the political bang the Presidential Commission report on the Central Bank bond scam made this week. But first, credit where credit is due. And it’s due to President Sirisena in great [...]
British envoy’s lesson about truth
In ancient Greece there was this fussy old philosopher who went around the market place in broad daylight with a lantern in hand looking for an honest man. Diogenes was either a cynic or just crazy. Who would ever go to the market place in search of an honest man! It is as loony as [...]
Early Parliament session to table Bond report
President did not show the report to the PM and did not meet him, but telephoned to brief him on theaddress to the nation Paradoxically, the SLFP and the UNP agree not to criticise each other during the ongoing campaign for the February 10 local polls Questions whether Sirisena disclosed the report to boost the [...]
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