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My dear IGP Pujith, I thought I must write to you because your behaviour and the conduct of the entire Police force has become the focus of attention in recent times. All of you are becoming a bit like our cricket team- just when we think you can’t descend any lower, you seem to find [...]
Defence Attaché recalled from Moscow after Dayan’s protest
Air Force Group Captain Channa Dissanayake, Sri Lanka’s Defence Attache in Moscow, has been re-called to Colombo.Instructions went out last week after an official complaint by Sri Lanka new Ambassador in Moscow Dayan Jayetilleke. The ambassador has said the Air Force officer had allegedly “partitioned” the Embassy premises calling it the “Defence Section” leaving other [...]
Who killed Cock Robin?
Even before Prabhakaran’s dead body had turned cold, the race was on to claim the spurs of victory. The spoils of war. First off the mark was the then President Rajapaksa. Returning from Jordan, two days later after the Tiger Supremo’s swift death had been announced, his first act after climbing down the plane’s ramp [...]
The unnerving madness of Sri Lanka’s political establishment
Sri Lanka’s political landscape is distinguished by an oddity not evidenced to that unnerving extent elsewhere in this region, even with all its considerable turbulence. How the jaundiced citizen sees it This oddity is that despite an increasingly uncertain economic future as the rupee free falls to unfathomable depths and law and order falters with [...]
Economic growth revised down amid increased uncertainty
Adverse international developments and inhospitable conditions in the country have led to a downward revision of the economic growth to less than 4 percent this year. The expectation at the beginning of the year of a significant economic revival this year from the poor performance of GDP growth of 3.1 percent last year is fading. [...]
A political act for next election
Whenever two or more Sri Lankans gather there are two subjects that hog any conversation. The exchange of habitual pleasantries over, the talk inevitably turns to politics and cricket. Which topic takes pride of place depends on who has most recently been playing pandu with the public purse and how much has been pilfered by [...]
Maithri–Mahinda talk of forming caretaker grand coalition
Mahinda could be Prime Minister replacing Ranil Wickremesinghe Basil Rajapaksa joins the talks Meeting at the residence of S.B. Dissanayake in Battaramulla More talks on the way President Maithripala Sirisena and his predecessor Mahinda Rajapaksa met last Wednesday to discuss a potential caretaker grand coalition which the two leaders agreed was necessary to pull the [...]
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