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My dear Mahinda maama, It was only three weeks ago that I wrote to you last, but I feel I must write to you again, especially as much has happened since then, and because of those events, you are likely to go down in history, in the midst of all your other achievements, as the [...]
Recovering from the crisis and rebuilding the economy
It is easy to destroy, difficult to rebuild. This incontrovertible truism is particularly applicable to the current economic situation. Whenever and however this crisis is resolved, restoring political and economic stability and international confidence is enormously a challenging task. Three prerequisites Rejuvenating and rebuilding the economy after the economic consequences of the political crisis is [...]
A court that stood tall above the political frenzy
As former President Mahinda Rajapaksa ignominiously retreated following the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal delivering a richly deserved lesson on constitutional propriety to President Maithripala Sirisena, the nation faces sobering questions close to the dawn of a new year. Betrayal of the electoral compact Euphoria in preventing the President from tossing the [...]
21 SLFP MPs want to join UNP-led Govt.
A ding-dong debate is under way at the highest levels of the United National Party (UNP) on whether the party should accept all 21 Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) MPs who want to support the UNP-led government. Some say they should pick and choose and have given the names, too. Others, however, contend that the [...]
Damocles Sword of Judgment falls on the Presidential head
The Supreme Court’s Damocles Sword of Judgment, which had stood dangling for a month over President Sirisena’s head ever since their Lordships issued a stay order on his gazette fiat dissolving Parliament in November, finally snapped from its lofty mooring and fell crashing on the presidential pate this Thursday when Seven Supreme Sentinels of the [...]
Judiciary stamps on presidential excesses
Environment experts said recently that Sri Lanka is the second most vulnerable country to global climate change. In another 50 to 100 years Sri Lanka will probably be uninhabitable chiefly because of man’s own follies. Why wait fifty years or more to see this land like no other being destroyed when the country’s own politicians [...]
An anatomy of a political tsunami
A new UNP-SLMC “national government” to be formed A Vote on Account to presented before yearend Mahinda Rajapaksa may be Leader of the Opposition Motion in Parliament on December 18 to expand Cabinet President Sirisena to swear in Ranil Wickremesinghe as Premier today Many are the untold stories during the days when President Maithripala [...]
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