When Ranil Wickremesinghe unexpectedly became President in July last year upon the sudden resignation of Gotabaya Rajapaksa, his solitary United National Party (UNP) National List seat in Parliament fell vacant. As party leader, Wickremesinghe could have nominated anyone to...
Sri Lanka’s cricket, once known for its dashing playing style and legendary stars, has made world headlines for the wrong reasons. One of its cricketers, Danushka Gunathilaka, who was touring with the national team for the recently concluded T20...
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...
Will he, or won’t he? That is the question that everyone in politics seems to be asking these days: will President Ranil Wickremesinghe conduct the next presidential election as constitutionally required, at least by October 2024?
In recent weeks there...
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...
Betrayal has been part and parcel of Sri Lankan politics for decades now and politicians crossing over for a mere Cabinet portfolio has become more of a norm than the exception and this should not elicit surprise. Even so,...
