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Moves seem to be afoot in the opposition United National Party (UNP) to thaw fractured relations between party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe and his two erstwhile deputies Sajith Premadasa and Karu Jayasuriya. President Mahinda Rajapaksa may have been instrumental in the exercise, because the UNP leaders need to get together in view of the upcoming provincial elections [...]
Five make-or-break months for Rajapaksa regime
National Collective gets support from Mahanayakes for abolition of PCs but world pressure forces Govt. to go ahead with polls Cracks within UPFA widen while UNP patches up splits; SLMC defies President to go it alone Ahead of a summit of Commonwealth leaders later this year, two different campaigns gained momentum with equal vigour this [...]
Bringing in Justice
My Dear Wigneswaran, I thought I should write to you when I heard that you would be contesting for the Chief Ministerial post in the North in the upcoming elections. I suppose you wouldn’t mind being called ‘Wigneswaran’ instead of being addressed as ‘Your Lordship’, now that you are a fully-fledged politician! You are making [...]
Wigneswaran ups the ante in Chief Minister stakes
With the electoral race launched in three provinces, two developments within minority political formations during the past week point to significant undercurrents. Firstly, there were ripples caused by the naming of a respected retired Supreme Court judge, C V Wigneswaran, as the chief ministerial candidate of the Tamil National Alliance, for the first ever Northern [...]
Not this good earth
Four years after the war in the North and East ended, Sri Lankans are very quickly losing rights not only relating to personal life and liberty but also basic entitlements to the very land on which they live. Disregarding the law It is now a matter of practice for land owners to be informed that [...]
External finances and fiscal consolidation: What’s the real position?
The divergent assessments of the current economic situation are confusing. The Central Bank’s assessment of the current state of the economy, especially two key economic indicators, the level of foreign reserves and fiscal consolidation, contrasts with that of Moody’s. Are the external finances in a strong position as the Central Bank claims? Have we made [...]