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My dear Green Man, Sajith and Karu, I thought of writing to you because your names are being suggested as possible candidates for the next big election. Everyone is talking about which one amongst you would be the best candidate for the Greens. Different people in your party are proposing different candidates and that is [...]
Amid political storm over SOFA, Rodney presents credentials to Donald
Sri Lanka eventually has got a proper ambassador in one of the world’s most important capitals — Washington DC. This week, senior career diplomat Eluppiti Mudiyanselage Rodney Manoranjan Perera presented his credentials to US President Donald Trump who looked at his papers and seeing the full name of our envoy said, “You have a long [...]
Further reflections on the prerequisites for economic development
Non-economic conditions have been the determining factors in Sri Lanka’s below-potential post-Independence economic development. The preconditions for rapid economic development have been missing and successive governments have been unable to pursue and implement pragmatic economic policies. Consequently, high sustained economic growth has eluded the country and only an annual average economic growth of 3.5 percent [...]
Hello there, your slips are showing
What is going on in good old Sri Lanka — that paradise isle in which the loquacious Trump is trying to plant his military boot print? More and more the country’s politics, not to mention its governance, is beginning to look like a pot of over-boiled noodles mixed with equally sticky string hoppers. Anybody who [...]
Sri Lanka is at an exceedingly dangerous juncture
There is a tragic disconnect between what Sri Lanka’s leaders say to the public and the patent disbelief with which these words are received. This will eventually have dangerous repercussions beyond the electoral defeat of those men, impacting on the nation as a whole as it is pushed in a perilous direction with raw bitterness [...]
Why President Sirisena cannot have an extended term
Supreme Court determination in 2018 debars it Still room for Provincial Council elections Polls tempo rises among political parties Speaker says he will pay Kariyawasam from Parliament funds Efforts to remain in office after the end of his current five-year term, legal experts have now warned President Maithripala Sirisena, would be an impossible task. [...]
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