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Elated, no doubt, by winning the popular vote at last month’s local government polls, the joint opposition’s new move this month was to take its battle to the UNP heartland and make a bid to end its leader Ranil Wickremesinghe’s long stay atop Sri Kotha’s pinnacle. The strategy deployed was to bring a no-confidence motion [...]
So does anybody tell the president
These last couple of weeks in Sri Lanka have been exciting, comic and sad. Mob rule in the guise of ethno-religious differences and confrontation has brought shame and disgrace to a country trying to keep western rottweilers from chewing up Sri Lanka’s misled and misleading politicians who were made to believe that a pat on [...]
For the first time, Buddhist prelate in state delegation
Sri Lanka’s foreign policy initiatives have gone one notch higher with the inclusion of a member of the Buddhist clergy in a delegation for top level talks between President Maithripala Sirisena and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. This is the first time in seven decades that a cleric has been included in an official delegation [...]
Slightly older
My dear Green Man, I didn’t think I will be writing to you again so soon but now I am because Mahinda maama’s chaps have submitted a motion of no-confidence against you. If they get that through Parliament you can lose the job you wanted so much after languishing for more than decade as the [...]
Silver linings in the economy: Increased agricultural and industrial production and export growth
Despite the recent gloom cast by the communal violence that threatened several key sectors of the economy, there are some bright spots emerging in the economy. Improved paddy harvests, prospects of increased tea production, increased industrial production and a further growth in exports are favourable developments that should result in higher economic growth this year. [...]
Picking out the racist beam in our own eyes
There is a cheery though dangerously complacent view articulated by senior Muslim politicians, (andechoed by others),that the recent communal violence in Ampara and Kandy was perpetrated through organised attacks by ‘outsiders’ on Muslim residents of those areas. Only part of the truth As is often the case, this explanation is only part of the truth. [...]
It’s anybody’s guess yet facts speak for themselves
These are trying times for Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe. While there are growing calls for meaningful reforms within the United National Party (UNP), which he has led since 1994, his political opponents are eager to see the back of him, and are counting on winning a ‘No-Confidence’ motion against him, which would force him out [...]
Numbers game intensifies as no-confidence motion is presented
Obathumaatath mekeng sweep ekak vedenna puluwang or you also can win a sweep ticket through this, remarked ‘Joint Opposition’ parliamentarian Wimal Weerawansa as Dinesh Gunawardena handed a copy of the No-Confidence Motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, to Speaker Karu Jayasuriya. Jayasuriya was not too pleased with the remark that hinted that he could become [...]
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