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...
Wanniarachchi was also guilty of pathetically pandering to the whims and fancies of the Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA), a trade union which has become a law unto itself during this regime and runs a mafia-style operation, shamelessly manipulating...
The carnage continues and the nation is on the brink. What awaits is a disaster of humungous proportions, with hundreds of people dying every day.
That trend has already begun. Earlier this week, the official daily death toll from the...
The No Confidence Motion (NCM) against Energy Minister Udaya Gammanpila is now history but it has raised more questions than answers- ironically, not for Gammanpila but for the main opposition party, the Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) and its leader,...
Deliberately or inadvertently, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has let the cat out of the bag.
At a discussion with heads of media institutions this week, he is reported to have said that he has not just three but eight years to...
Basil Rajapaksa’s philosophy as the Minister of Economic Development was to borrow as much as he can and spend as much as he can on infrastructure projects, so he that his government could make political gains. Ironically, he has...
Just when you thought it cannot get any worse, it did.
That is the general public’s perception about the special presidential pardon accorded to R. Duminda Silva, former parliamentarian and convicted murderer.
The act of pardoning Silva is disgusting but not...
Politics, particularly in this part of the world are all about branding. The Senanayakes and Bandaranaikes were brand names that had good market value. Nowadays, the Rajapaksas are the brand to beat, no matter what their failings are. Wickremesinghe...
We have never been great fans of Gammanpila for he brings to mind the saying that patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel and his public posturing has had racism written all over it, but this claim from...
