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The government will open both the Bandaranaike International Airport (BIA) and the Mattala Rajapaksa International Airport (MRIA) to pick up non-Sri Lankan passengers and for crew rest, a group of envoys were assured on Thursday. The move follows a meeting by these diplomats with Special Envoy Basil Rajapaksa who heads the 44-member Presidential Task Force. [...]
General Elections amidst COVID Pandemic? You must be joking!
If all had been hunky dory and had events trotted to plan, the nation would have gone to the polls this coming Saturday morn to elect a new government. All the necessary constitutional steps to give birth to a new parliament had been effected. Even the three month labour period had been induced by a [...]
Elections are coming, it’s time to flog the dead
My dear citizens of Paradise, I thought I must write to you again after a few weeks because this week will mark the first anniversary of the deadly terrorist attacks on Easter Sunday last year that left hundreds of people dead and many others wondering what had become of our land after a decade of [...]
Minorities keep UK health service alive
Call it synchronicity, call it coincidence, call it simple happenstance, just call it what you will. But two recent stories that gelled tell of the key role that UK’s ethnic minorities play in battling the coronavirus pandemic and the sad news of the sacrifices they make for their adopted home. Last Sunday’s column dealt with [...]
Continuing concerns in food supply distribution and accessibility
Ensuring the availability of the minimum food requirements of the entire population is a formidable task as the Government has to achieve this while trying to contain the spread of COVID-19. It is made even more difficult as it has to be accomplished under an island-wide curfew. Success There has been success in both containing [...]
Sri Lanka’s spread of the ‘anti-democracy’ virus
The anti-democracy virus infecting law enforcement officials in Sri Lanka today appears to have proceeded belligerently to the point that an attorney-at-law was arrested this week in circumstances so outrageous that it has drawn the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) out of hibernation to express its ‘concern.’ A manifestly curious arrest Pointing out in [...]
President takes cautious route to restore normalcy
Curfew to be relaxed from tomorrow; but will continue in certain high risk areas; relief for no-risk GS divisions Constitutional crisis grows over parliamentary elections; polls chief to announce decision next week President Gotabaya Rajapaksa plans to end the 31-day-long round-the-clock curfew tomorrow in most areas, barring high risk zones in the districts of Colombo, Kalutara, [...]
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