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As D Day approaches for the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna to formally declare on August 11 its choice of presidential candidate as it had pledged it would on that day, will the lights go out one by one on Gotabaya’s presidential star; and render it dimmer by the fleeting hour? In the volatile week ahead [...]
Two-faced and in two minds
Aiyo Sirisena, I thought I should write to you when I heard your loyal lieutenant, Mahinda Amarey, say that the Blues will announce their candidate in September for the upcoming big election. Hearing that, I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry because we didn’t think you would even consider contesting. Amarey said that the [...]
President unlikely to allow jumbo cabinet
President Maithripala Sirisena will not swear in a larger Cabinet under a so-called National Government in terms of a resolution now before Parliament, his senior advisor Shiral Lakthilake said yesterday. “In terms of the Constitution, it is the President who has to decide on whether he is satisfied that there is a case for a [...]
The tale of two South Asian countries and their slow economic growth
Pakistan and Sri Lanka are the least performing economies in the highest growing region in the world. While the South Asian region is expected to grow by 7 percent this year, these two economies are expected to grow by less than half of this. Ironically, these two South Asian countries were best poised for growth [...]
Rajapaksa amnesia and ‘counter-terror’ perils of the present
Is former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his baying ‘podujana party’ team members suffering from selective amnesia when they flay the Government on the floor of Sri Lanka’s Parliament for having presented the Lands Bill to the House without first putting it before the Provincial Councils? Not all the masses are asses to forget Lest we [...]
UNP to transform to Democratic National Front as Sirisena now wants to contest presidential poll
Ranil has his way at Thursday’s stormy Working Committee meeting Prospects become dim for an SLFP-SLPP alliance SLPP launches house-to-house campaign countrywide His detractors, including those whom he later took within his own fold, ridiculed him as Mr Bean, the comedy character in movies, because of his close physical resemblance to Rowan Atkinson, the [...]
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