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The Commission of Inquiry that probed the country’s largest bond scam has recommended that “relevant criteria and a specified procedure” be adopted in the appointment of a Governor for the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL). The move follows the previous Governor Arjuna Mahendran’s involvement in the scam together with his son-in-law Arjun Aloysious, a [...]
Let’s talk about the elephant in the room
My dear Green Man, I thought I should write to you even though you must be very busy hosting the Prime Minister of Singapore and the President of Indonesia. That is because I want you to know that many people are confused about what is happening to the Greens, with an important election just a [...]
Seven decades of post independent economic under development
We complete seventy years of independence next week and enter the 71st year after regaining independence. The country has progressed, but not as much as her potential. Other countries in Asia that were at a much lesser economic level have progressed by leaps and bounds. Despite better economic and social infrastructure and an efficient bureaucracy [...]
A president’s fireworks and a country’s misery
These days, it seems that President Maithripala Sirisena lights matches with relish, igniting political fireworks that go off virtually every day of the week in a dazzling display of verbal pyrotechnics. Mostly aimed at the United National Party (UNP) his squirming coalition partner in Sri Lanka’s governing ‘unity’ alliance, these onslaughts send the media scurrying [...]
Disunited Unity Govt’s validity questioned in the House
As President Maithripala Sirisena steps into the third year of his presidency, that all is not well within the Government of National Unity, is becoming ever more apparent. While the rumblings from the President are being heard loud and clear from one political stage to another, some UNP lawmakers too, have been voicing antagonistic views [...]
All this and tall stories too
This is the month that was. The new year almost always begins with a bang. Actually many, many bangs as bursting firecrackers greet the dawn of another year. This year however was special. Above the din of the celebratory explosions was heard the cacophony of political debate as parties in contestation at next month’s local [...]
Bond Com made me Mr. Clean
Every man is entitled to be presumed innocent until he is proven guilty. But in the case of the ex Foreign Minister and former Finance Minster Ravi Karunayake such is his understandable impatience to prove his innocence that he has put forward his defense even before the prosecution has presented theirs, nay, even before any [...]
Local Council Polls : ‘Do or die’ battle for Sirisena
President uses Bond Commission findings as an artillery barrage against Rajapaksa’s SLPP and UNP; wins public support but will it translate into votes ? Sirisena declines to answer questions as to whether he will contest again and says he is unsure where the current situation will end Mahendran was the source from which Perpetual Treasuries [...]
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