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Ranil on the cross, JO searching for 113 nails to crucify him; and guess who’s giving them the hammer to drive the nails home? It’s there in the koha’s avurudhu caw, it’s there humming in the buzz of the bees, it’s there in the breeze, in the rustle of the leaves, and it’s found and [...]
Oh dear, her slipper was showing
This is no joke, believe me. It is true of course that today is “All fools day” or “April fool” or whatever other appellation is attached to April 1. Today is the day when the media tries to get away by pulling the legs of their readers with fake news made to look 24-carat genuine. [...]
You’re not sorry you cheated, you’re just sorry you got caught
My dear Steve Smith, David Warner, Darren Lehmann and the Australian cricket team, I thought I must write to you because the entire cricketing world is talking about you. That is after you were caught cheating, tampering with the cricket ball during a test match against South Africa. Steve and David, you have been suspended. [...]
Cabinet divided on school uniforms, fertiliser and glyphosate ban
Whether material or cash should be given to schoolchildren for uniforms has become a controversy among United National Party (UNP) Cabinet ministers. At the weekly ministerial meeting last Tuesday, Housing Minister Sajith Premadasa said the present practice of issuing cash coupons was not working and was riddled with corruption. He said President Maithripala Sirisena [...]
The underworld, Rajapaksa and ‘yahapalanaya’ power games
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, now busily wrapping the reformist garb of a changed political persona around him, has had the audacity to complain this week that the underworld is now more active than during his Presidency. Criminals and the Rajapaksa ‘project’ But the truth is that the underworld was ‘managed’ and ‘used’ at the time [...]
Economy at the crossroads as politics dictate priorities
The economic imperatives for stability and growth are well known and well recognised among those in charge of the economy and some in the political leadership. Even so, pursuing them are difficult for the government that requires regaining its lost popularity. Furthermore the lack of any consensus on economic policies makes it difficult to pursue [...]
No-faith motion: Game changer or end of the game?
President Maithripala Sirisena appears to have joined the fray in his own way as the countdown for the vote of no-confidence against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is just three days away. He has virtually stripped Wickremesinghe of some powers he enjoyed as both, Prime Minister and National Policies and Economic Affairs Minister preventing him, from [...]
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