The segment of the population who are over forty years of age still recall with clarity the atrocities committed by the JVP in 1971 and in 1989. Even for those who are younger, the JVP’s policies resemble unadulterated socialism...
In the current political context, the SLPP needs Ranil Wickremesinghe more than Wickremesinghe needs them. That explains why they continue to support him in Parliament, knowing very well that he is attempting to undermine the foundations of their party.
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As evident from his comments to an overseas news agency, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is now in no mood to resign, nor is he amenable to a peaceful transfer of his presidential powers through a robust 21st Amendment and Wickremesinghe...
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...
Last Saturday, he walked into the convention of the United National Party (UNP) he leads and declared that presidential elections will be held on schedule in 2024. Not stopping at that, he declared that general elections will also be...
Maithripala Sirisena, it appears, has the opposite of the Midas touch: whatever he touches, turns to dust, the latest victim being the United Peoples’ Freedom Alliance (UPFA).
The sixth Executive President of Sri Lanka made a mockery of the Presidency...
President Ranil Wickremesinghe, who just returned from a European tour that included visits to Britain and France has an urgent task to perform: appoint an Inspector General of Police (IGP).
Incumbent IGP Chandana Wickramaratne’s original term of office ended in...
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...
Pardoning Ramanayake is the greatest political hoax of recent times
Harin Fernando promised to wear a black ‘saatakaya’ or shawl in Parliament as a mark of protest, until Ramanayake was released. He also pledged to resign from his...
Diferences of opinion among the opposition ranks was evident even before the protests began when the JVP withdrew support. They said that the protest was only a political stunt aimed at raising the profile of the parties involved and...
It is not for nothing that Ranil Wickremesinghe is J.R. Jayewardene’s nephew.
J.R., the ‘Old Fox’ in Sri Lankan politics stayed the course for long enough and outlived and outsmarted his contemporaries for almost four decades before he reached the...
Sri Lanka is a nation that has hurtled from crisis to crisis: two insurrections in the South, the assassination of two of its leaders and similar attempts on others, terrorism in the North which then spread to the South...
