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...
By Kassapa
Every now and then, political parties make miraculous comebacks. The resurrection of the United National Party (UNP) after its debacle at the hands of the newly formed, S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike led Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) in 1956 was...
The Sinhalese language, known for its pithy expressions, has an expression for the maladministration of justice- ‘naduth haamuduruwangey, baduth haamuduruwangey’- implying that sometimes, the culprits and the decision makers in a court of law are one and the same.
The...
• 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...
Alahapperuma’s job it is to put a positive spin on matters and sing for his supper, so he says that the humble admission of the President clearly manifests the democratic and down to earth attitude of President Rajapaksa and...
Make no mistake, it was not from a position of strength that Dudley Sirisena was speaking against a government that had an all-powerful Executive President by virtue of the 20th Amendment and a steamroller two-thirds majority in Parliament that...
for Two very different personalities, each powerful in their own way, succumbed to the deadly Covid-19 virus recently. Both of them, in departing this world at ages that you wouldn’t expect their deaths, left us wondering what is wrong...
• Yes, we are shocked at the alleged
incident because it is incorrigible, horrendous and indefensible but no, we are not surprised because this was, after all, Lohan Ratwattewhose previous foray into national headlines was twenty years ago when...
Already, even as a State Minister, Cabraalhas made statements which would make an Ordinary Level student of Economics cringe. For instance, he is on record saying recently that the excessive printing of money does not cause inflation. What peculiar...
The medical profession, once considered immune from political manipulation, is slowly but surely being coerced into agreeing to political decisions taken by the government.
Many in the profession are aghast at this blatant interference but some doctors have been brave...
Are we in lockdown or not? That is the question many are asking after the so-called ‘lockdown’ was extended by another week.
To begin with, the lockdown was hard to get to. The government, its economic advisors and political pundits-...
The demise of former Minister MangalaSamaraweera removes from Sri Lanka’s political stage an actor of many talents and an individual capable of single-handedly changing the nation’s destiny.
Samaraweera succumbed to complications of being infected with the corona virus earlier this...
