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“Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa,” says Foreign Minister Ali Sabry–that the former Cabinet in which he was a different avatar as Justice Minister and Finance Minister, lived in a world of its own, not knowing how bad the state of the economy was until it went bust. Speaking at a book launch he [...]
Economic crisis and the management of collateral damage
While the economic crisis taxes the governance skills of the Government to the optimum, no less challenging is the collateral damage caused to the economy in multiple fields. The diverse strategies adopted by the Government to resolve different strands of the economic crisis will necessarily have to take into account the need to sustain the [...]
Uncertainties and impediments for obtaining international assistance
President Ranil Wickremesinghe has made a valiant effort to obtain international assistance so vital for the survival of the country and revival of the economy. He has assured the country that foreign assistance is near at hand. Special message In a special message to Parliament on October 6, President Wickremesinghe outlined the measures he had [...]
Sri Lanka’s children as ‘human shields’ and the president’s paradoxes
When President Ranil Wickremesinghe uses gut wrenching imagery to equate Sinhalese mothers and fathers taking their children to protest sites with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) using Tamil children as human shields against state forces, it is deliberate and premeditated. Two unsettling sides of the same coin The President’s well aimed play is [...]
Rising from the mud
My dear Mahinda maama, I thought I must write to you because you were in the news recently, after a long time. All these months the focus has been on Gota maama’s goings and comings, and Basil maama’s visit to his motherland, but last week, you were in the limelight at a time when both [...]
Rajapaksa and son launch bold comeback bid to gain lost power
Namal in charge of Sri Lanka’s national policy while Mahinda takes SLPP reins Barely five months after fleeing Temple Trees to stay secretly holed up in a Trinco naval base for several days, Mahinda Rajapaksa and son Namal last Friday launched a bold comeback bid to regain lost political power. It was a far cry [...]
Postscript Geneva: Positive responses or more bluff to come
Between politics and Mohamed Ali Sabry, there is an unfortunate disconnect. Each time Sabry is elevated to the cabinet, be it as Justice Minister, Finance Minister or Foreign Minister, trouble appears to follow him. Remember the public ha-ho in early November 2021 when President Gotabaya Rajapaksa appointment of that highly controversial monk Galagodaatte Gnanasara Thera [...]
The return of Mahinda Rajapaksa to revive ruling SLPP
Stand up in unity theme of rallies; the second to be held in Kandy today Former President Gotabaya misled by his Viyath Maga colleagues; Pavithra alleges conspiracy to undermine the party Lawyer Romesh De Silva hands over his draft constitution; provisions contain radical changes, Wijeyadasa calls for formation of select committee to formulate a new [...]
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