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Home » ColumnsUNP crisis continues into New Year: Internal battle between Ranil and Sajith
The United National Party (UNP) crisis will flow into the New Year despite efforts by different groups to work out “a settlement.” UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe left for the seasonal holiday to Ootacamund (Ooty) in the Nilgiris hills of southern India. His rival Sajith Premadasa is now going around addressing ‘pocket meetings’ of party activists. [...]
One month down, Mr President has done quite well
My dear Gota maamey, I thought I must write to you since you have been in office in the top job for one month now, after having won the big race by a convincing margin. Although your victory was not surprising, the margin of your win came as a surprise to many and people expect [...]
Aung San Suu Kyi’s dramatic U turn over Rohingiya ‘genocide’ claim
Aung San Suu Kyi was once the icon of democracy in the East the West worshipped with adoration, love and hope. Like the Crimean War had seen Florence Nightingale shine her lamp on the sick and dying to show their wretched suffering, she had lit the candle’s flame in the gusty winds that blew and [...]
Racist Johnson now well settled
As the British election earlier this month was coming to a head, the incumbent Prime Minister Boris Johnson did what he does best — break into his racist and discriminatory lingo and muddy the political waters. This is nothing new for a man who has been doing this for years, from way back when he [...]
Sound macroeconomic fundamentals essential for economic stability and growth
The economy cannot be revived without healthy macroeconomic fundamentals that include, a moderate fiscal deficit, low inflation, a small trade deficit, a balance of payments surplus and adequate foreign reserves. The country’s domestic and foreign debt and foreign debt servicing obligations too should be within acceptable levels. Macroeconomic stability The inability to grow at a [...]
The attorney general is not superior to Lanka’s judicial officers
The ridiculous claim being parroted by bespectacled and grinning supporters (apparently also lawyers) of the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Party (SLPP or the “Pohuttuwa’), that the action of the Attorney General is somehow ‘superior’ to the writ of a Magistrate in the making of arrests of persons in this land, is contrary to the weight [...]
Govt. goes ahead despite Swiss ultimatum
Swiss wanted all issues to be concluded on December 16 Ambassador Hanspatrick Mock goes to Bern for consultations EU envoys back Swiss appeals Accusations of bias against local media The soaring Swiss Embassy saga, now almost a month old, has locked Bern and Colombo in a serious deadlock. The Bern government, the Sunday Times [...]
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