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The United National Front (UNF) Government this week was left with egg on its face after suffering a stinging defeat to two key Ministries during the Committee Stage debate of Budget 2019 — not the first time during the past few months. The humiliating defeat of Expenditure Heads of the Ministry of Internal & Home [...]
UNHRC resolution: President blasts those who bypassed him
President Maithripala Sirisena dropped a bombshell when he addressed a public meeting on Wednesday after declaring open a new building for the Meegahatenna Police Station in the Kalutara District. He said that he did not recognise the Sri Lanka resolution adopted by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) last week in Geneva. He has publicly [...]
A most wanted man
My dear Arjuna, I thought I must write to you because you seem to be always in the news, even when you are not in the country and nowhere to be found. You have even caused a dispute between our Paradise and the country which once wanted to be like us, but is the country [...]
The people’s bafflement: How do you solve a problem like Sirisena?
If there is one tragic flaw in Maithripala Sirisena’s get up, it is his habitual tendency to absolve himself of all knowledge and thus responsibility to the nation when the first whiff of trouble blows in the air or the first whistle of controversy is blown at dusk to alert opposition hounds to bear their [...]
It’s this Buttler that done it again
The cricket world has erupted again. Not because Sri Lanka’s generally inexperienced cricket team was thrashed by South Africa in the later matches. The team returned to Colombo last week without fanfare and without the politicians who hang around waiting to be photographed with a victorious team. Had our team won, it would have been [...]
The unforeseen slowing down of the economy in 2018
Economic growth of only 3.2 percent in 2018 is much lower than was expected at the beginning of the year. The economy was expected to revive from the low economic growth of 3.1 percent in 2017 to about 4 percent. Last year’s economic growth was below the annual average growth of the post-independence years (1950-2017) [...]
‘Colombata kiri, apita kekiri’
As Sri Lanka suffers from extraordinary heat, the Government’s decision to impose nation-wide power cuts excepting Colombo city and other ‘privileged’ locations where parliamentarians reside, speaks not only to its witless actions in respect of a major crisis but also imputes a ‘selectiveness’ that has deadly import in an election year. A Government that cannot [...]
Final Budget vote -President summons SLFP MPs on Tuesday
President gets wide publicity for war on drugs and fresh initiatives on probing Central Bank bond scam AG’s Dept. to present new report to courton charges against former CB governor Mahendran to expedite extradition moves UNP quiet on its candidate for presidency, but speculation about Karu and Sajith With just six months to go for [...]
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