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When it comes to politics, even learned academics are no different from seasoned politicians. Academic turned politician and former Northern province Governor Suren Raghavan made a U-turn this week when he accepted the portfolio of State Minister of Education Services and Reforms. The appointment came just days after he put a post on his Facebook [...]
A house of cards
My dear new Cabinet of Ministers, I thought I must write to you this week. Firstly, I should congratulate you on your new appointments. However, I should also be absolutely honest with you and let you know that, seeing you take your oaths as ministers, I didn’t know whether I should laugh, cry or be [...]
The Government must read the writing on the wall
While the protestors at Galle Face continue with their protests preventing President Gotabaya Rajapaksa from working from his office, there seems to be some degree of consultation among Opposition groups opening up slight hopes of a resolution of the deadlock in governance paralysis that the country is witnessing. Opposition Leader Sajith Premadasa unveiled his party’s [...]
Long may civil and peaceful disobedience to an uncaring government last
From the young girl who handed out a red flower to a policeman at a barricade at Galle Face Green to the actor who walked with a cross on his back from Katuwapitiya, one of the sites of the infamous attacks by homegrown jihadists on Easter Sunday in 2019, to the protest site in Colombo, [...]
Political stability and IMF assistance vital to resolve economic crisis
Political stability and International monetary Fund (IMF) assistance are crucial for resolving the unprecedented severe economic crisis. The current widespread social unrest and political instability are severe obstacles to economic recovery. Political and social unrest How the prevailing social upheavals and political unrest will be resolved is uncertain. What is certain is that the widespread [...]
Way the cookie crumbles
If the President thought a new look cabinet would dim the din of the people asking him to go, he was wrong. Youthful faces cannot hide the same old Rajapaksa ideology they have been conditioned to bear in their narrow heads for political advancement. And it cut no ice with the masses. In his indirect [...]
Rambukkana shooting probe: Another farce in the making
Now where have we heard such soothing words before? Never mind. Just turn over the pages of our history and they will recur with such regularity that they have lost all sense and sensibility. It did not take long after the police shooting at Rambukkana that killed one protester and injured several others and some [...]
President, Premier differences widen
Gotabaya loyalists call for Premier’s removal, while Namal pushes for abolition of executive presidency PM boycotts ceremony to swear-in new Cabinet after his nominations were rejected by the President SJB focuses on the No-Confidence Motion and the proposed 21st amendment; price issues, queues and growing public protests continue Beleaguered President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, now living in [...]
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