Mahinda Rajapaksa and Ranil Wickremesinghe may be like chalk and cheese, in many respects, but they have a remarkable similarity; both of them are amazingly adept at bouncing back against tremendous odds. Whoever would have thought Mahinda would ever...
The Opposition, the media and civil society organizations let out howls of protests when the government moved to postpone the local government (LG) elections, early this year by preventing the Finance Ministry from allocating funds for the Election Commission....
All issues that crop up in Sri Lanka have one thing in common; they have a very short lifespan. But the Easter Sunday carnage has been different thanks to the tireless efforts of the Catholic Church, especially Archbishop of...
Following London-based Channel 4’s recent programme on the Easter Sunday terrorist bombings, which claimed more than 270 lives and left over 500 persons injured, on April 21, 2019, pressure has been mounting on the SLPP-UNP government to have an international investigation...
Sri Lanka’s current crisis is not of recent origin. It developed over a couple of decades and took a turn for the worse about one and a half years ago, culminating in the bankruptcy of the economy. The blame...
Politics is notoriously fickle and has much more to do with expediency than principle, for ambition takes precedence over everything else in one’s quest for power. Politicians have therefore earned notoriety for unpredictable and unbelievable policy shifts, about-turns, defections...
The Opposition’s motion of no confidence against Health Minister Keheliya Rambukwella over the sorry state of affairs in the public health sector is to be taken up for debate in the parliament shortly. It is scheduled to be put...
The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) celebrated its 72nd Anniversary on a grand scale, with Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena as the Chief Guest, at Monarch Imperial, Sri Jayewardenepura, on Sunday (03 Sept.). What does the future hold for the...
All issues in Sri Lanka have the same lifespan as mushrooms, and this has stood governments in good stead over the years. A few months ago, there was a furor over the postponement of the local government (LG) elections...
The SLPP-UNP government has catapulted to the centre stage of politics the 13th Amendment to the Constitution (13A), of all things, making its critics ask whether it has got its priorities mixed up, for its focus at this juncture...
Some Opposition MPs threw the parliament into turmoil on Wednesday. During the question time, they protested, claiming that their right to raise queries about matters of national importance had been violated. Some ministers’ refusal to field supplementary questions also...
JVP Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake, MP, has struck back at his erstwhile comrades in the Frontline Socialist Party (FSP), who have claimed that the JVP, together with a government minister, has invested a large amount of funds overseas. A...
