There is said to be no such thing as a free lunch. Financial aid, foreign or otherwise, always comes with strings attached to it, and the recipients hardly have any choice, beggars are no choosers. These strings could be...
SLFP leader Maithripala Sirisena must be ruing the day he became the President. His presidency was apparently jinxed and landed him in trouble. He is doubtlessly worried about the political fallout of the recent Supreme Court ruling that he...
The Black Protest Week campaign, launched by a newly-formed organization called the Professionals’ Trade Union Collective (PTUC), against high taxes, etc., is gaining momentum and inspiring agitations across the country. The PTUC consists of doctors, engineers, accountants, bankers, university...
The SLPP was the first to place cash deposits for the local government (LG) elections. No sooner had the Election Commission (EC) announced its decision to accept deposits than the SLPP politicians were seen rushing to the District Secretariats....
The Rajapaksa-Wickremesinghe government is making a determined bid to postpone the local government (LG) elections to be held soon. The Regulation of Election Expenditure (REE) Bill, widely viewed as part of the government’s strategy to delay the LG polls,...
It never rains but it pours. Perhaps, nothing exemplifies this popular saying more than what former President Maithripala Sirisena has experienced during the past several years. With the benefit of hindsight, he must be thinking that it was a...
The government has apparently been left with no alternative but to reconcile itself to the fact that the local government (LG) elections cannot be postponed further. But it is not likely to give up without a fight. Speculation is...
All political parties are girding up their loins for the local government (LG) polls, which are expected to be held soon. In what is described as a surprising move, President Ranil Wickremesinghe has declared that he will remain neutral...
W. R. D. Bandaranaike and his wife Sirimavo would turn in their graves if they knew the sorry state of affairs in their beloved party, whose MPs and office-bearers cannot unite at least to commemorate them.
On December 31,...
by Vishvanath
An earth-shatteringly eventful year is drawing to a close, and the chances are that we are about to ring in another year of political upheavals. Political parties and trade unions are threatening to take to the streets against...
The ongoing political war between the UNP and the SJB has got down and dirty amid speculation that the much-delayed local government elections will be held in a few weeks. The UNP is all out to engineer some more...
There has been a mixed reaction to what is known as the government’s war on ICE, which is the street name for highly addictive crystal methamphetamine. The much-publicized anti-narcotic operations that continue apace have won acclaim, but they are...
