Thankfully, there is at least one Cabinet minister who has the guts to stand up to President Ranil Wickremesinghe and do what he thinks is right. That is the Minister of Sports, Roshan Ranasinghe, currently at the centre of...
At least in theory, the next presidential elections are not due for a year. That is because the Constitution decrees that when an incumbent President is replaced by a ‘caretaker’ President for whatever reason, the latter must serve out...
The ‘man of the moment’ last week was no politician but a preacher, Pastor Jerome Fernando. Fernando states in a sermon of his that the Buddha was ‘looking for Jesus’ because the Buddha sought enlightenment and Jesus had described...
If you are one of those who subscribe only to mainstream media and were observing what was going on in Sri Lanka, you would be excused if you were under the impression that the Corona virus pandemic, while still...
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...
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 only face-saving measures Wickremesinghe has adopted are sticking to a programme of economic reform that has alleviated the acute hardships of essential goods and services such as gas, fuel, and electricity, which were prevalent around this time...
For those who have lived long enough to remember events of nearly fifty years ago April 1974 was when the government of then Prime Minister Sirima Bandaranaike sealed Independent Newspapers Limited, popularly known as the ‘Davasa’ group. It was...
Just when you thought matters couldn’t get any worse, it did.
It is bad enough that the local government elections scheduled for March 09 have been postponed indefinitely. Now, President Ranil Wickremesinghe tells us that there was no election anyway.
Last...
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...
In Sri Lanka, currently, 12.3% of the population is 60 and above, the highest proportion of older adults in the South Asian region.
Interestingly, but not surprisingly, the Western province has the highest percentage of the country’s elderly at 31.7%,...
From a government perspective, the protests should serve as the final warning. If they didn’t know it already, the public are not merely unhappy, they are livid. After Tuesday, the government should realisethat the next election will not be...
