The IMF is the lesser evil among the two options available; it is far better than selling the nation’s sovereignty to China.
To give credit where it is due, even if it is to Wickremesinghe, yes, he does. He...
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%,...
The Supreme Court could, for instance, hold that while the President enjoys immunity on actions he undertakes in an official or personal capacity that does not make him immune from any actions he undertakes in a ministerial capacity....
Here we go again on the merry go round of local government elections, thanks to President Ranil Wickremesinghe, the government and the Elections Commission (EC).
The ninth of March, the date originally fixed for the poll has come and gone...
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...
Where to from here? That was the question on many a lip this week after it became official that local government elections will not be held as scheduled on March 09.
President Ranil Wickremesinghe, the nephew of former President J.R....
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...
The people had their say, President Ranil Wickremesinghe had his way. The stubborn personality that Wickremesinghe is, he ‘celebrated’ Sri Lanka’s 75th anniversary of independence, but it came at a price.
When it was first announced that this year’s Independence...
We must be grateful that there still remains in our judiciary, judicial officers who still value principles, the rule of law and the proper dispensation of justice above pandering to politicians to enhance their career prospects
The release of...
The offer of a Cabinet post to a political novice such as Jeevan Thondaman with hardly any impressive credentials is nothing but political.
Worse still is the appointment of Pavithra Wanniarachchi. This lady is an avowed Rajapaksa loyalist...
It is the season of alliances. With local government elections pending, forming an alliance seems to be the trend- but these alliances only reflect the pathetic plight of the participating parties and their desperate struggle for political survival.
Leading the...
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...
