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Ahead of President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s visit to the North this week, United National Party senior leader Ravi Karunanayake was in Jaffna earlier in the week to monitor the preparations and engage in reviving the party work in the province. Addressing a UNP meeting at a city hotel on Thursday, the former Finance Minister announced that [...]
Speaker survives; three day debate goes beyond issues in no-confidence motion
The three-day debate on the no-confidence motion against Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, the fifth in the history of Sri Lanka’s parliament, ended on Thursday evening with exhaustive arguments put forth on not only matters raised in the motion but also a range of other topics related to his conduct. The motion presented by the opposition [...]
A more equitable and pragmatic system needed to reduce Lanka’s fiscal deficit
The widespread discontent and dissatisfaction with the recent increases in personal income taxes and the imposition of the Value Added Tax (VAT) on a number of consumer items have evoked considerable opposition. The reduction of taxes will undoubtedly be a promise opposition parties will give at the upcoming elections. Protests Protests and strikes have been [...]
Washing dirty linen in public
My dear ‘other’ Mahinda, I am writing to congratulate you on surviving the motion of no confidence against you moved by some in the opposition. It was a comfortable ‘victory’ too because some 117 MPs voted to support you, a creditable achievement because the ‘pohottuwa’ party is divided into so many camps now. Is it [...]
A daughter’s heartfelt cry for slain Thaththi: A father’s voiceless wail for murdered family
19 YEAR OLD BOY’S SENSELESS MASSACRE THAT SHOCKED THE WORLD Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau leads the nation’s sympathies as Ottawa’s massacred Lankans are finally laid to rest in moving funeral It’s the worst massacre that Canada has ever known. The worst tragedy that ever befell a Lankan migrant family abroad: A family of five and [...]
Hail Sri Lanka’s parliamentary democracy: Hail its parliamentarians
History tells us that in ancient times Emperor Nero fiddled while Rome burnt. History sometimes could be misleading. My understanding is that there were no fiddles in Nero’s time. He was playing a lyre and not a fiddle. It is a word; Sri Lankans are less interested in the musical instrument than changing its spelling [...]
More and more conspiracy theories emerge
What caused the country to experience an economic crash of such a magnitude that forced the Government to declare bankruptcy for the first time in the 75 years of independence, has been analysed ad nauseum by economists and political analysts. The general consensus that has emerged is that the cause was bad governance and economic [...]
President, Basil meet for second time on elections
SLPP strategist keen on holding parliamentary polls first, but Wickremesinghe still for holding presidential poll first Anura Kumara outlines youth-focused polls campaign in major policy speech in Matara Main parties prepare for big May Day rallies as a show of strength By Our Political Editor President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Basil Rajapaksa, founder, and strategist [...]
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