http://www.sundaytimes.lk Official website of the Sunday Times Newspaper in Sri Lanka Sun, 15 Dec 2019 15:06:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/191215/editorial/bribery-and-corruption-a-way-of-life-382989.html 14 December 2019 @ 9:46 pm Transparency International (TISL)’s local branch has done some work on bribery and corruption in this country and disclosed some of its not-so startling findings. It said that a quarter of the population accept bribery and corruption as facts of life. What is surprising is that the figure seems conservative. In recent election campaigns, both sides of the political divide hammered out the corru...