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The Chief Government Whip’s Office had organised a meeting to brief government MPs on the proposed water tariff hikes but the July 7th event was cancelled abruptly. The briefing was due to be held in Parliament’s Committee Room No. 2. Given that July 7 was a sitting day, most MPs were attending Parliament. Several reminders [...]
Buddhism in paradise isle
Avasarai Nayaka hamuduruwaney, I thought I must write to you this week because Buddhism and issues around those who are supposed to follow it, both among the lay people and clergy, are very much in the news these days. Not a day seems to go by without one issue or the other related to Buddhism [...]
System change can result in qualitative improvement of Sri Lankan polity
The economic mismanagement of the post 2019 period raises fundamental questions of governance with regard to the country’s future. Was the country’s bankruptcy caused by poor leadership or as a result of the system of governance that prevailed or both. Answers to these questions will provide lessons for the future path the country takes to [...]
Tough task of implementing reforms for economic recovery
Now that the domestic debt restructuring (DDR) has been accomplished, the foreign debt restructuring (FDR) should be completed soon. Challenging The challenging task ahead is the implementation of the needed economic reforms. Political parties would protest against these unpopular reforms and disrupt the economy. Favourable Hopefully, there would be a significant reduction in foreign debt [...]
The president’s ‘trump card’ on the proposed trc and a history lesson
President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s assertion during a recent interview with the French media that the Government of Sri Lanka will invite foreign jurists to ‘observe’ the sittings of the proposed Truth and Reconciliation (TRC) Commission and that therefore, ‘no one can say that it is a cover-up,’ is political satire of the most rip-roaring kind. Circus [...]
How Ranil Wickremesinghe hit the Presidential jackpot
For Ranil Wickremesinghe the 21st of July last year must have been the day the political sweep, he had bought forty-six years back on his way to parliament, was finally drawn to win him the presidential lottery. If fortune had a hand to play in his sudden elevation, she certainly had used a sort of [...]
Wiping out the corrupt or just another hoax
A joke can be a serious thing as a standup comedienne learned a couple of months back while sitting down behind ‘bars’ and contemplating the concept of justice. Well, there surely must be other places where standup comedians—not to mention a couple of sit-down ones—could be seen or heard regaling the multitude with their kind [...]
Wimal says he will reveal more about the “international conspiracy”
Calls for the appointment of presidential commission of inquiry to probe allegations He and other parties reject PSC on bankruptcy, claiming it is loaded with Basil supporters; SJB to form opposition-led PSC By Our Political Editor Wimal Weerawansa, once a firebrand of the left and now the leader of the Uttara Lanka Sabhagaya, a political [...]
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