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Mystery over PB — What’s his afterlife as President’s Secretary The secrecy surrounding the “resignation” of Presidential Secretary P. B. Jayasundera, has reached ridiculous heights with even the President’s Media Unit claiming it cannot confirm or deny anything–not the date of resignation, the reason for it nor whether or not it is happening. They would [...]
Economic assassin strikes again
My dear PB, I thought I must write to you as my first task for the New Year. That is because everyone seems to be talking about what would happen to you in the coming days. No one appears to be quite certain whether you will be in office as the highest-ranking public servant in [...]
National crisis—three options for the Government
Senior citizens who have lived through the major part of the post Independence era confirm that they have never witnesssed dysfunctional governance of the current type. They claim that the citizenry have never had to face the consequences of what would best be described as a failed government. Inevitably when such a situation arises it [...]
2022: Survival of the Richest
IF YOU THOUGHT 2021 WAS BAD ENOUGH, THINK AGAIN: WORSE IS TO FOLLOW What horrors await masses in new ‘no news is good news’ year? Like a farmyard hen cackling in a barn after laying a single egg, Central Bank Governor Nivard Cabraal was over the moon on Wednesday, flapping his wings and squawking frantically [...]
If you want to marry me darling…
In an earlier time in the history of our cherished country when politics was clean and fresh as the morning dew and so were politicians, there was a ditty that was invariably sung whenever the somewhat inebriated gathered round a piano and the more inebriated round the bottles. Unlike today when one law is for [...]
Another year of economic deprivations or one of economic recovery?
At the dawn of the New Year, the question uppermost in our minds is whether the deprivations experienced of essentials last year will be aggravated or whether there is a prospect of their alleviation. Is there a prospect of economic recovery in the New Year? Food shortages Food shortages that was a feature of last [...]
A military nod for marriages to ‘foreigners’ and other associated Sri Lankan idiocies
On the very day that the powerfully resonant voice of South Africa’s anti-apartheid advocate and priest Desmond Tutu was stilled (December 26th 2021), Sri Lanka announced a preposterous rule potentially requiring citizens who marry ‘foreigners’ to obtain security clearance from the Ministry of Defence. Parameters that defined the apartheid State There is an awful coincidence [...]
Wishing for queue-free New Year: A wishful thinking?
Food crisis looms; gas companies continue to hold people to ransom, while a hapless Government looks on More expected from main opposition SJB over burning issues Public confidence in the administration fast eroding; CB Governor and Treasury Secretary to attend crucial Cabinet meeting tomorrow A new year where people do not have to stand in [...]
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