After months of disagreements and weeks of speculation, Wimal Weerawansa and Udaya Gammanpila were unceremoniously sacked from the Cabinet by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa last week, at the behest of his brother and Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa.
Is this the beginning...
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...
In his petition to the Supreme, Court Shani Abeysekera details how his attempts to investigate the NTJ and Zahran were thwarted by several obstacles, many months before the Easter attacks. The details contained in the petition, now available...
While differences of opinion within political parties are common, discussions about any such disagreements are best held behind closed doors and not from a public platform.
Whether all these diverse forces will coalesce closer to an election -...
Within the coalition, there is a game of cat and mouse game going on, between the SLPP and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) headed by former President Maithripala Sirisena. The latter has been unequivocally critical of the former,...
An unusual story hit the headlines both in the mainstream media and social media last week, suggesting that a close aide of Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, Udith Lokubandara, had siphoned 35 million rupees from the Premier’s bank account over...
A few months ago, Sri Lankans were worried about the re-emergence of the corona virus pandemic. A few weeks ago, our citizens were warned of an imminent foreign exchange debacle. Now, we are being cautioned about impending power cuts...
Patriotism, to quote the cliché, is said to be the last refuge of the scoundrel. For the Rajapaksas, that is what they resort to first, to win elections.
A dozen years ago, in 2010, it was patriotism that won Mahinda...
Political circles were all agog last week with the sudden sacking of Susil Premajayantha from his position as State Minister of Education Reforms, Open Universities and Distance Learning Promotion by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.
Premajayantha was summarily sacked from his post...
This week, as the New Year dawned and the government grappled with an unstable economy and an increasingly restless public, we learnt the importance of being Basil.
Basil had already generated publicity in the media by flying away to the...
This tale of two secretaries, that of Secretary to the President Punchi Banda (or P.B.) Jayasundera and the former Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture Professor Udith K. Jayasinghe highlights the contradictions and complexities of this government- and raises...
Last week’s incidents at the convocation of the University of Colombo, where some graduands refused to receive their degree from the university’s recently appointed Vice-Chancellor, Buddhist monk and trade union leader Muruththetuwe Ananda thero, should be considered a landmark.
Many...
