In Sri Lanka's murky world of politics, contradictions or conflicts of interests are galore. They amply bear out the axiom that the left hand does not know what the right is doing.
Among the many events that highlight this ever-increasing ambiguity is this week's visit to Sri Lanka by Liam Fox.
“Thaaththa,” Bindu Udagedara asked, “what is all this fuss about elections?”
“I think everyone is excited about the elections in the east…” Bindu’s father Percy said.
With just two weeks to go for the National New Year, what portends in the battlefields of the Wanni engaged the attention of both political and military leaders this week.
It was not merely a task of assessing performance on the ground.
It was just the other day that I laid my hands on the text of a talk that International Trade Minister GL Peiris gave at the Royal Commonwealth Society in London a couple of weeks ago.
Tea and Rubber prices peaked to record levels last year. Consequently export earnings from these two commodities increased significantly and gave immense support to the balance of payments. In 2007 agricultural export earnings were a record US Dollars 1507 million owing to the increased export earnings from these two crops.
If EEC Abeysekera, that quietly unflagging champion of the broadbasing of Lake House was alive today, he would surely have rejoiced at the (somewhat peculiar) fact of the Lake House Employees' Union (LHEU) invoking the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court this week asking for the implementation of the 'Lake House Provisions Act.
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In Sri Lanka's murky world of politics, contradictions or conflicts of interests are galore. They amply bear out the axiom that the left hand does not know what the right is doing.
Among the many events that highlight this ever-increasing ambiguity is this week's visit to Sri Lanka by Liam Fox.
With just two weeks to go for the National New Year, what portends in the battlefields of the Wanni engaged the attention of both political and military leaders this week.
It was not merely a task of assessing performance on the ground.
It was just the other day that I laid my hands on the text of a talk that International Trade Minister GL Peiris gave at the Royal Commonwealth Society in London a couple of weeks ago.
Tea and Rubber prices peaked to record levels last year. Consequently export earnings from these two commodities increased significantly and gave immense support to the balance of payments. In 2007 agricultural export earnings were a record US Dollars 1507 million owing to the increased export earnings from these two crops.