It seemed a bizarre mix. Cricket lovers and champions of human rights the world over were paying equal attention to Sri Lanka this week. At a virtually empty stadium in Trinidad in the Caribbean, Sri Lankans beat the babes of world cricket, Bermuda, in their first encounter.

My dear Green Man,
I thought I must write to you, especially as you are now holding party conventions and promising to carry out reforms while at the same time assuring everyone that the Greens - or what is left of it - will agitate against Mahinda maama and try to drive him out of office.

As the Security Forces and the Police Special Task Force (STF) step up their offensive against Tiger guerrillas in the East, the contours of the Government's "war on terror" seem to be changing. Contrary to reports of large-scale ground operations, small groups are continuing to hunt down guerrillas. The only exceptions have been limited search- and-destroy missions jointly by the Security Forces and the STF.

Inflation is uppermost in people’s minds. Economists, business people as well as ordinary citizens are quite disturbed by the high rate of inflation. The interests of ordinary citizens lie in the rising cost of living that erodes the buying power of their fixed incomes. The poorer sections of the community are finding the costs of living onerous.