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Home » ColumnsMinister reveals evidence of alleged double game by Police, relating to narcotics
Addressing a media briefing on Thursday, Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe made an unusual revelation regarding some drug related arrests made by the Police. He revealed they had found that many samples of supposedly “dangerous drugs” sent by some Police stations to the Government Analyst’s Department for testing were not dangerous drugs. “When this happens to [...]
A botched act
My dear Premanath, I thought of writing to you because you seem to have become famous overnight. Two weeks ago, if asked about you, most people would have said, “Premanath who?” Now though, many people not only know your name, they are talking in great detail about what you said in the House by the [...]
Economic gains of inclusivity and nondiscrimination
Countries in distress brought upon by their own follies find to their cost that they need all the friends in the world to help them climb out of the pit they have dug for themselves. The extent of help extended is often determined by the image and respect the country enjoys in the international community. [...]
Strikes pose threat to economic recovery and growth
The prospect of an improvement in external finances led to an expectation of an economic revival and recovery this year. This could have been the take-off to economic growth and development in the fullness of time. However, if the general strike launched on Wednesday continues, and political protests and social upheavals are widespread and prolonged, [...]
This is just not cricket, Mr President
Undoubtedly there is a bizarre vibe in Sri Lanka’s air these days. The IMF’s magic key and our expectations Cheering ‘old boys’ gripped by nostalgia for the ‘good old days’ jostle each other at the capital’s once forlorn cricket-playing fields. Festive schoolboys overcome by ‘big match’ fever ‘invade’ girls’ schools to show their ‘colours’ in [...]
Sleepless, godless, restless night fearing ‘make or break’ IMF word
Lanka faces economic Armageddon if the unthinkable happens at Board meeting tomorrow If Ranil Wickremesinghe is of the nervous sort then tonight will be one sleepless, with many harrowing tosses and turns marking his half-wake-half-sleep nightmare, as he lies, in a cold sweat, fretting what the inscrutable fates have ordained for the morrow at the [...]
Promoting tourism as a country like no other
One of the problems with politicians, especially our very own scintillating lot, is that they forget to keep the mouth and feet at either end of their anatomy. It is not surprising, therefore, that all too frequently one ends up inside the other. So it happened the other day in Berlin – the beautiful, historic [...]
President ready for talks with striking unions, IMF deal likely tomorrow
Unions expect positive response from Govt., seek an interim solution IUSF leader Wasantha Muadlige holds talks with Jaffna University student leaders, who present demands similar to those of LTTE UNHRC oral update on Lanka in June; periodic review brings bouquets and brickbats By Our Political Editor Last Wednesday’s strike by some 47 member unions [...]
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