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Home » Columns‘Coronavirus’ pandemic postponed; but infodemic still rages unchecked
The bubble burst on the Great Chinese Dream in this new dawned Chinese zodiacal Year of the Rat when a snake or bat borne virus showed its deadly presence amongst humans and revealed the truism of how the best laid plans of rats and men can be swiftly disposed by gods and fate. The microbe [...]
SriLankan corruption case: CID was grounded for five years
Five long years ago, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) was asked by then President Maithripala Sirisena to probe the SriLankan Airlines deal for four Airbus A 350-900 aircraft. This probe identified those involved in concluding the deal together with six other narrow-bodied aircraft just after the conclusion of the Paris Air Show in June 2013. [...]
External shocks could destabilise economy
External shocks have been serious setbacks to the Sri Lankan Economy since independence. Once again the Sri Lankan economy is facing severe external Shocks. Slow growth of the international economy will reduce the country’s exports. The dip in world tourism will cripple the country’s attempt to revive tourism. There is a likely hood of a [...]
The abduction of children and Sri Lanka’s crisis of justice
One of the stranger if not outlandish manifestations of the upending of Sri Lanka’s legal order is the ongoing tussle between the Attorney General and the Presidential Commission inquiring into alleged incidents of political victimisation of public servants during the previous Sirisena-Wickremesinghe Government. A truly extraordinary directive The source of this dispute is truly extraordinary. [...]
Actions speak louder than the best speeches
My dear Gota maamey, I thought I must write to you because many issues have arisen since I wrote to you last, although it is not even three months yet since you took over the top job. We don’t see you and hear you in public as much as we saw your predecessors- though I [...]
Power struggle gives public a shock
That was a shock. It was a shock indeed. The day before the country celebrated its 72nd Independence Day some parts of this fair isle were plunged into darkness or so one immediately thought. Reading the news from afar, it was not quite clear whether it happened in the night or the darkness was at [...]
SLPP and allies may contest sans SLFP
Plans for parliamentary elections go into high gear Premadasa and loyalists pick a new political party Basil Rajapaksa explains how state body heads were named Ranil will remain UNP leader Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on Wednesday sounded out government parliamentarians on when the President should call for parliamentary elections. This is to determine whether [...]
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