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They say a dog is a man’s best friend. Here is a story of how one from the canine breed has been enjoying special privileges like his boss, a top cop in the south. However, for the top cop’s subordinates, it has turned out to be a dog’s life. One of the staffers was asked [...]
Some advice for Green Man
My dear Green Man, I thought I must write to you even though you are in Singapore because everyone is talking about you, your job and how Maithri is treating you, especially after last Sunday’s ‘reshuffle’ that was supposed to put the country back on track but instead made most people lose the little hope [...]
All this for a few votes more
Who runs the British Government? Is it the prime minister and the elected representatives of the Conservative Party or nondescript groups of minority refugees and extremists with dubious and violent backgrounds whose highly raucous demonstrations have scared the British authorities to cave into their demands? But it is good to remember that what seems is [...]
What’s new pussycat after resurrection shuffle farce?
After last month’s local government election debacle if the government suffered the belief that appointing Harin Fernando as the new Minister of Foreign Employment or making Ministers Laksman Kiriella and Kabir Hashim exchange their respective portfolios like swingers at a wife-swapping party, formed the stuff of the dramatic change the Government had announced a week [...]
A desolate tale of impunity in two episodes
Even as farmers protesting the Rajanganaya Drinking Water Project in Thambuttegama were beaten mercilessly by the police and later arrested en masse this week, law enforcement agencies remained inactive in regard to instigators of communal violence in Ampara, happening uncannily enough in the same approximate time span. What occasions this difference? This is the tale [...]
Political compulsions and economic imperatives: Regaining popularity with right economic policies
The post local government election period of political confusion, uncertainty and partial reshuffling of the cabinet last Sunday has demonstrated that the country’s leadership has no firm resolve to address the country’s critical economic issues. Consequently, the economy could be heading for an economic crisis. The government must act quickly to implement economic policies that [...]
Ding-dong battle continues between the two coalition partners
When the brief but sombre private swearing-in ceremony ended last Sunday, President Maithripala Sirisena made sure those from his Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) proceeded to an upper floor at the Presidential Secretariat. There, a worried looking Sirisena said he bestowed the much-talked-of Law and Order portfolio on Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. The Premier, he [...]
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