• 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...
The political cold war between President Ranil Wickremesinghe and the governing Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) is hotting up- and it appears Wickremesinghe is the first to blink.
For several months, the dispute has been simmering and has been spoken...
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...
The silence of health authorities while all this is going on is deafening. The government’s favourite lap dog, the GMOA is not even barking, let alone daring to bite. Other medical bodies have taken a vow of silence, or...
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...
The collective opposition needs to think ‘out of the box’. The bare minimum they can do is to work together and try to formulate a cohesive strategy against the common enemy- the Rajapaksa regime- instead of bickering about who...
By Kassapa
As Sri Lanka awaits what might be a historic general election- in as much the last presidential election was- there is a great deal of speculation about the outcome of the poll. The discussion is not so much...
Never has the convention of a political party in Sri Lanka evoked so much interest as that of the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) did last Friday when its faithful gathered at the Sugathadasa Indoor Stadium in Colombo.
The...
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...
• What was tragic about all this is that Sri Lanka has one of the most robust immunisation schemes for young children not only in Asia but the entire world. The health systems were therefore already there, if only...
The ‘pohottuwa’ party or the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) may not be in full bloom, but it hasn’t withered away either. In fact, it is hibernating until the time is right to bloom again.
When the ‘aragalaya’ or...
