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The group of ten, as they like to call themselves, had a meeting with the Russian Ambassador Yuri Materiy. Their mission was to plead through him to the government in Moscow to supply much needed fuel, coal, and fertiliser to Sri Lanka. The envoy’s answer did give them a shock. He said that their government, [...]
Pleasant distractions amid the queues
My dear Dasun and the cricket team, I thought I should write to you because the whole country is talking about you these days following your historic series win this week over Australia after 30 long years. You made us forget, at least for the moment, the other historic events that are occurring in the [...]
With boycott move, opposition pours paint on premier’s gloomy pic of economy
By Sandun Jayawardana Amid a parliamentary boycott by the main Opposition parties, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday (22) defended his Government’s efforts to manage the country’s economic crisis, while also renewing his call for all to come together to rebuild the nation. Giving a detailed briefing on the state of the nation, the Premier [...]
Welfare of women should not be jeopardised in search for dollars
The immediate concern of the country at present is the accumulation of dollars to obtain the bare essentials necessary for the survival of the populace. The purchase of fuel, cooking gas, medicines and a host of other things are dependent on the availability of dollars. It is natural therefore for the Government to explore every [...]
Avoiding hunger and starvation in the coming months
The increasing scarcity of food owing to a shortfall in domestic food production, the incapacity to import food owing to a severe scarcity of foreign currency, high import costs and an international food shortage is threatening the country’s food security in the coming months. Most serious The most severe threat is the inability of large [...]
Constitutional hell or high water?
This week’s ruling handed down by the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka on the main Opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya’s (SJB) confoundingly optimistic 21st Amendment Bill seeking to wholesale consign the Executive Presidency to the dustbin was predictable, some would mutter even blindingly so. Monumentally unsurprising judicial thinking The SJB Bill sought to replace the ‘Executive [...]
World doesn’t owe us a living
Global demand and people’s cry for political change cannot be ignored anymore The top-level Indian delegation that arrived in Lanka on Thursday on a quickie three-hour mission to meet the President and the Prime Minister, and to assess the ground situation, flew back to New Delhi by sundown, with the former’s appeal for aid and [...]
So what’s new — bad news or worse news?
A long- time friend who has not lost his sense of humour despite the troubled times he lives in, tells me that the country’s starving and disgusted people have extended the Lord’s Prayer that is regularly recited by those of the Christian faith. If my friend’s name goes without mention it is at his request [...]
President makes last-minute changes to 21A, Cabinet approval likely tomorrow
Proposal aimed at broad-basing constitutional council; new high post committee recommended In a bid to obtain two-thirds majority and coax SLPP MPs to vote for it, Gotabaya delays appointment of state ministers As Lanka holds talks with IMF team, top world personality warns the lending agency of endemic corruption in Sri Lanka By Our Political [...]
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