The first tough test of strength for the fledgling almost two year-old Mahinda Rajapaksa regime will come in Parliament in the coming weeks.
The opposition National Congress is to move a vote of no-confidence based on a number of critical issues.
"Hello, Hello, Satellite," said the Green Man as he visited the lady at her home "I was wondering when you would call..."
"You know me," Satellite said, "I'm always late..."
The Central Bank has forecast a continued economic growth of 7 percent for this year. Although the growth rates for the first two quarters of the year are still not available, many statistics of economic performance in the first six months that are available indicate growth in several key areas.
It is comforting when one's views on matters of people and politics get a nod from readers. It is even more gratifying when such endorsement comes from persons not only knowledgeable in areas of our concern but have also been, in a manner of speaking, in the frontline as policies were made and played out on the international stage.
This week's press notification that the Bribery and Corruption Commission had been successful in its prosecution of a police sergeant who had solicited and accepted a bribe of Rs 6,000 from a bootlegger in exchange for promising not to haul him up before the law, awakens no particular joy in our hearts.
NEW YORK - When Jesse Helms, the rigidly conservative rightwing Republican Senator from North Carolina, criticised US aid to developing nations, he famously said that American tax payer money should not be "going down foreign rat holes to countries that constantly oppose us at the United Nations."
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By J.S. Tissainayagam
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2007 Wijeya
Newspapers Ltd.Colombo. Sri Lanka.
The first tough test of strength for the fledgling almost two year-old Mahinda Rajapaksa regime will come in Parliament in the coming weeks.
The opposition National Congress is to move a vote of no-confidence based on a number of critical issues.
NEW YORK - When Jesse Helms, the rigidly conservative rightwing Republican Senator from North Carolina, criticised US aid to developing nations, he famously said that American tax payer money should not be "going down foreign rat holes to countries that constantly oppose us at the United Nations."