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As the Government is determined to revive the COVID-19-hit tourism industry despite fresh Omicron variant challenges, there seem to be more challenges along the recovery period. This time — it is due to the mismanagement of the economy resulting in soaring inflation and forex shortage for imports. Issuing a revised Global Travel Advisory for Sri [...]
The Blue side of lonesome
My dear SWRD, I thought of writing to you this week though it has been many decades since you left us for the Land of Never Return. That is because your birth anniversary was commemorated last week – and you would be turning in your final resting place, the Horagolla Samadhi, if you knew what [...]
Confusion in governance continues unabated
It is difficult to figure out whether the crisis in governance in the country is the result of rank incompetence or simply unwise decisions taken without adequate thought. In the past, Sri Lankan governments have made errors in judgement when taking important decisions. In the future too, governments are likely to make mistakes as all [...]
Resolving the foreign reserves crisis and increasing production
The current focus is on resolving the crisis in foreign reserves. Resolving the inadequacy of external reserves to meet international debt repayment obligations and essential import needs is of utmost urgency. However, the way forward for the country is by increasing the production of goods and services for domestic consumption and exports. Increasing production This [...]
‘The wealth of a country is in the people’ – a sober warning by Lanka’s church
As Sri Lanka’s Catholic Church marks 1000 days of jihadist attacks on churches and hotels in 2019, the intensification of a grim tussle between the Church and law enforcement authorities over the discovery of a hand grenade at the All Saints Church in Borella this week is remarkable in more ways than one. The fight [...]
Lanka: All sail and no anchor
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa made an extraordinary appeal to the people on Wednesday, asking them to forget the past two years and hope for better times in the future. “The past has value only to the Opposition,” he declared at the Eastern Terminal Construction launch ceremony. “We must always embrace the future, not the past. [...]
Our politicians make no mistakes; others do
Over the years our politicians have taken a severe bashing mainly from the media and now, increasingly from the public. Not without cause. Just the other day, I read that a three-road junction I had known from my early school days as “Jubilee Kanuwa/Post Handiya” has been renamed. Not, mind you, by the local authority [...]
Power circus no amusement for Lankans battered by multiple crises
Minister says no power cuts, but unscheduled blackouts add to the woes of the people As long queues for cooking gas still a reality, Litro chief fired and rehired SLFP section resists grassroots pressure to quit the ruling coalition, amid bid to revive UPFA, PA Tamil parties to submit documentary petition to Modi; call for [...]
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