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Internal divisions within certain political parties are coming out in the open during the campaign for the 2024 parliamentary elections. The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) is also facing such issues. These internal divisions came out into the open once more in an embarrassing fashion during a meeting organised in Pudaluoya on Friday evening. The [...]
Hoppers, koththu and roti
My dear Dilith, I am writing to you after seeing the tricks you and others in your party are getting up to these days to try and get into the next Parliament. Paradise being a democracy, you are allowed to do so. However, the people and tactics you are using suggest that you have doubts [...]
Issue of tourist visas should be revisited and streamlined to protect tourist industry
The Government of President Anura Kumara Dissanayake has the unenviable task of meeting an unexpected challenge having taken office at a time when the country is saddled with multiple problems albeit mostly of the country’s own making. One of the legacies left behind by the previous Government was the VFS Visa fiasco and the passport [...]
‘No Political Opposition’? Such Nonsense from the NPP
The rhetoric of the Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) Presidency in calling on the public to ‘fill’ the Sri Lanka Parliament with members of his National Peoples’ Power (NPP) party in the General Elections on 14th November 2024, has given rise to significant democratic discomfort. ‘Strong majorities’ and political chaos How can this not be so [...]
Early indications of President Dissanayake’s priorities, policies and performance
Indications of the policy thrusts and mode of governance in the first few days of Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s presidency have evoked great expectations and impatience with the pace of policy implementation. No magic It is worth recalling the President’s words in his inaugural address that he is not a magician. The undoing of years of [...]
Did Gamman go where angels fear to tread by exploding Easter bombshell
Even as Arugam Bay’s famed surfing waves receded this off season leaving the sleepy coastal town to slumber on, it was rudely awoken to find itself turned into a hotbed of international intrigue, and the target of an imminent terrorist attack, with its multi-religious residents held hostage to terror as a result of an insufferable [...]
The parties are over; farewell you dubious saviours of the nation
The parties are over; farewell you dubious saviours of the nation In the last few years the country’s political parties have been imploding and exploding scattering their worthless like in the battlefields of old. But not too many moons ago, the aged and ageing leaders took their battles to the countryside and so the discarded [...]
Plot to attack Israelis backed by a foreign power
Probe underway to determine degree of their involvement Muslim villages around Arugam Bay would have been vulnerable if the plot was executed Heavy Police and military security in areas frequented by Israeli tourists Minister Herath says foreign countries “are satisfied” with the measures adopted and warns “people trying to make political gain” By [...]
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