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The towering sixes and wickets flying above the ground were not the only thrills and spills for cricket lovers during last week’s ICC 20-20 cricket series. There were other events too. As revealed exclusively on the front-page of the Sunday Times last week, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) in the Ministerial Security Division (MSD) [...]
Battle between Govt. and Judiciary volatile and sensitive
To follow a person from inside a High Security Zone (HSZ), wait for him to park his car and assault him mercilessly requires close surveillance for some time. Those words came from former Commander of the Army and onetime General Sarath Fonseka, credited with leading ground troops for the military defeat of Tiger guerrillas more [...]
Catching crises and dropping blame
My Dear Mahinda Maama, I thought I must write to you again because these days, everyone seems to be blaming you for everything and maybe you need to be aware of that-because those close to you may not be telling you the whole truth. Why, Mahinda maama, they even blamed you for Sri Lanka losing [...]
Speaker stands firm against SC while LG poll’s law sails thro’
A landmark ruling by Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa and Parliament’s approval of significant changes to the Local Authority election law in the country, dominated Parliamentary sittings this week. The lengthy statement by the Speaker, lasting nearly an hour, on Tuesday, came in the wake of the ruling by the Supreme Court, when preliminary objections were raised [...]
Assault on the judiciary: Pick your conspiracy – any conspiracy
The Sri Lankan public has seen its fair share of bizarre political developments over the past few years, but never has the drama taken on dimensions of high farce as in the ongoing standoff between the executive and the judiciary. In a turn of events that unfold like the ‘theatre of the absurd,’ the country’s [...]
Paradox of high reserves and continued foreign borrowing
The state of external finances of the country could be confusing. We are repeatedly told by the Central Bank, the custodian of our reserves, that the foreign reserves position is healthy. On the other hand, we are made to understand that the government is seeking a credit facility of US$ 500 million from the IMF, [...]
The President and Sri Lanka’s judiciary
The attack on the Secretary of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) last Sunday, which some have read justifiably as an attempted abduction, is certainly quite unprecedented in the history of this country. We may have had tensions between the judiciary and the executive before. But the level of impunity with which this attack was carried [...]