When this Coronavirus pandemic is eventually done and dusted and its history comes to be written, Sri Lanka will surely be the case study that is highlighted in the chapter on “How not to manage a pandemic’.
Now, the country...
The equanimity of the law is lopsided in reference to Gajendran Kumar Ponnamabalam and Lohan Ratwatte
By KASSAPA
Everyone, except perhaps the President of the country who has immunity from prosecution, is supposed to be equal before the law in Sri...
Often, the downfall of governments come from within and not from their opponents. Sri Lankan political history is littered with such examples.
In the ‘50s, S.W.R. D. Bandaranaike broke away from the United National Party (UNP) and formed the Sri...
Some of its high-profile politicians are hedging their bets and biding their time.
Many believe the Rajapaksa duos absence from the DDR debate is more a face-saving strategy than being in defiance of Wickremesinghe
The huge hullabaloo last week...
Even Premadasa, who is not averse to doling out official party positions by the dozen to keep his MPs happy
By Kassapa
Politics, as the old saying goes, is said to be the art of the possible. This is exactly why...
• CID cover up feared
• Cabraalnomics and economists who predict the worst is still to come
• Nagging foreign reserve crisis
• The immediate need for preemptive debt restructuring
The Committee for Protecting Rights of Prisoners (CPRP) will file a...
It is unthinkable that Cabraal was acting of his own accord. He must have been echoing His Master’s Voice because he was being asked to do so by the powers that be. Cabraal is no great economic savant- he...
The SLPP coalition is now in disarray, and the SLFP is readying itself for a situation where it may have to go it alone at future elections. SLFP leader and former President Maithripala Sirisena is busy reinventing himself as...
Wickremesinghe is no political novice. Having been in this game for almost five decades he knows the legalities and loopholes of the Constitution. So, he must surely know that as Executive President with unprecedented powers under the 20th...
By Kassapa
The talking point in political circles last week was whether President Ranil Wickremesinghe is trying one last-gasp trick to stay in power by abolishing the Executive Presidency.
This concept first came to light several months ago when it...
Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa speaking in Parliament, offered to repeal the 20th Amendment to the Constitution and re-introduce the 19th Amendment with necessary modifications.
The same Rajapaksa brought in the 18th Amendment to replace the 17th Amendment, which aimed...
By KASSAPA
Just where will the government led by the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and headed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa draw the line, when it comes to acting with impunity and callous disregard to the letter and spirit of...
