Our front page headline story last Sunday warned of the impending balance of payments crisis that the country is heading to. The Central Bank of Sri Lanka has issued a communiqué stating that the country is not facing such a crisis and there was no need to devalue the Rupee.
Ever since President Mahinda Rajapaksa charged that the recent attacks on the media was part of an international conspiracy to tarnish the image of the country, several others-MPs among them, are using conspiracy theories to counter political rivals claims on various issues.
In a letter that is known only to a select few, Justice Mark Fernando who passed away this week, (writing to Presidents' Counsel Nehru Goonetilleke on October 21, 2003), explained precisely as to why he was prematurely retiring from judicial office at that time.
When Barack Hussein Obama (does he have another hidden middle name, Muhammad, buried somewhere?) was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States last week, his accession to the presidency was not only a political milestone but also the harbinger of a new era in US foreign policy.
