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Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) Parliamentarian Duminda Dissanayake on Friday said President Gotabaya Rajapaksa achieved something in two and a half years that LTTE Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran had tried and failed to do in 30 years – ruin the country’s economy. “Velupillai wanted to bring this country’s economy to its knees. That is why he [...]
Stop the bickering, join forces, now!
My dear Sajith, Anura, Champika and the Field Marshall, I thought of writing to you this week because the entire country is slowly but surely coming to a standstill. No one seems to have any idea about what will happen next. We have seen insurgencies, terrorism, tsunamis, terror attacks and pandemics but we haven’t seen [...]
Fueling the economic crisis and stifling an economic recovery
The near shutdown of the economy owing to the unavailability of fuel has further weakened the capacity of the economy to resolve the balance of payments difficulties. It could worsen the foreign currency crisis, increase the economic difficulties faced by people and threaten livelihoods. No prospect At present, there is no prospect of obtaining fuel. [...]
On the ‘glorious uncertainties’ of asking the president to ‘go’ in Galle
Notwithstanding those ‘nava gilunath baan choon’ (lets make merry while the Titanic sinks) citizens obsessed with Sri Lanka being ‘thrashed’ by Australia in the Test series opener played in Galle, as the New Zealand Herald rather impolitely put it this Friday, there was a different and far more serious development happening alongside. A sinister state [...]
Lanka in total breakdown as India plays hardball
Economic beggary and crushed mentalities drive home Govt failures Fuel-less, power-less, gas-less, food-less, school-less, work-less, dollar-less and hopeless: that’s the gaunt face Lanka wears this Sunday morn as she glares at the progress report of the nation’s leaders, which starkly manifests on Lanka’s streets and needs no retelling why the landscape lies bleak, shrouded in [...]
Airborne ministers, messy diplomacy and abandoned citizens
When future historians come to write about the current period in Sri Lanka, they will understand why it came to be called a “country like no other.” For there is no country like Sri Lanka and it is doubtful there will be one like it in the next millennia. But if those torch bearers who [...]
Country paralysed without fuel as blunders continue
No fresh supplies until end of this month India sets conditions for bridge financing, Govt. has no options but to agree IMF assistance delayed for a few months, as uneasy peace remains between Gotabaya and Ranil Controversy and confusion over 22A; critics say it strengthens President’s hand instead of reducing his powers By Our [...]
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