Sri Lankan cricketers’ abysmal performance during the past several tournaments and very serious allegations of corruption against Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) have brought about tensions among the three branches of government to all intents and purposes strange as it...
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...
Former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is in the news again. Having been sworn in as the UNP’s National List MP, heis now proffering unsolicited advice to the government on what needs to be done to contain the raging pandemic...
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...
The JVP has become the cynosure in political circles; it is scoring heavily by bashing the government mercilessly much to the glee of the irate public. A situation similar to that which existed in 2004 has apparently come about...
The JVP had been on cloud nine until recently, thinking that its efforts to reimage itself in a more positive light as a modern political entity had yielded the intended results, for there occurred an increase in its approval...
All Cabinet ministers are equal in rank, technically, but not all their portfolios are equally prestigious. Cabinet reshuffles, therefore, invariably lead to disgruntlement among those who lose their previously held plum portfolios and others who fail to secure them....
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 people of Matugama have taken protests against politicians to the next level, and set an example to their counterparts in other parts of the country, where power politics has taken precedence over everything else, and politicians are defied....
The Rajapaksa-Wickremesinghe government has changed its strategy in trying to postpone the Local Government (LG) polls indefinitely. Earlier, it placed itself on a collision course with the Election Commission (EC) by depriving the latter of funds needed for elections....
The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) celebrated its 70thanniversary on 02 September. There were some fiery speeches,and several orators waxed eloquent on what they called the achievements of the party, and made various promises. They, however, said nothing new....
Last week’s Supreme Court (SC) ruling that the SLMC’s decision to strip its MP and current Environment Minister Nazeer Ahamed of his party membership is valid and lawful has given a real scare to political turncoats, who have been...
