http://www.sundaytimes.lk Official website of the Sunday Times Newspaper in Sri Lanka Sat, 18 Jun 2022 19:21:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220619/columns/potentially-serious-sky-drama-and-on-the-ball-piloting-by-ul-crew-486386.html 18 June 2022 @ 10:26 pm lt;img class= quot;alignright size-full wp-image-486390 quot; title= quot;cafe-spectator quot; src= quot;http://sundaytimes.lk/220619/uploads/2022/06/cafe-spectator2.jpg quot; alt= quot; quot; width= quot;260 quot; height= quot;116 quot; / gt;The debt-ridden national carrier, Sri Lankan Airlines (UL), was in the news this week not on the usual focus of how many billions of rupees it is losing eve... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220619/columns/govt-must-take-steps-to-avert-a-humanitarian-crisis-in-the-health-sector-486322.html 18 June 2022 @ 9:04 pm At the risk of stating the obvious, it is the poor and vulnerable who are hardest hit by the economic crisis brought about by rank incompetence and mismanagement of the economy. The never ending queues and protests across the country bear ample testimony to this stark truth. While the Constitution proclaims that the people are sovereign, these same people are treated with utter contempt and ind... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220619/columns/strong-doubts-over-passage-of-21-a-486306.html 18 June 2022 @ 8:49 pm lt;ul gt; lt;li gt; lt;em gt; lt;strong gt;Why the Cabinet discussion did not take place last Monday lt;/strong gt; lt;/em gt; lt;/li gt; lt;li gt; lt;em gt; lt;strong gt;President may approve a fresh term for CB Governor despite no recommendation from Finance Minister lt;/strong gt; lt;/em gt; lt;/li gt; lt;li gt; lt;em gt; lt;strong gt;GL turns up in Geneva to make fresh overtures to ... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220619/columns/a-suspended-sentence-for-the-kappam-man-486302.html 18 June 2022 @ 8:32 pm My dear (A)Prasanna, I thought of writing to you because you are making history, being a cabinet minister while at the same time being a person convicted in a court of law. Of course, we have had ministers being convicted of offences, but I cannot remember someone who was convicted and still continued to remain a minister! Making history is not something new to your family. Your brother Arju... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220619/columns/economic-reforms-imperative-for-economic-stability-and-growth-486293.html 18 June 2022 @ 8:26 pm lt;img class= quot;alignright size-full wp-image-486294 quot; title= quot;nimal quot; src= quot;http://sundaytimes.lk/220619/uploads/2022/06/nimal1.jpg quot; alt= quot; quot; width= quot;300 quot; height= quot;81 quot; / gt;The main preoccupation of the Government and the concern of the people are the severe shortages of their basic requirements. These require immediate foreign assistance to reso... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220619/columns/throttling-a-nation-lankas-deadly-king-politicians-486290.html 18 June 2022 @ 8:23 pm lt;img class= quot;alignright size-full wp-image-486291 quot; title= quot;kishali quot; src= quot;http://sundaytimes.lk/220619/uploads/2022/06/kishali2.jpg quot; alt= quot; quot; width= quot;300 quot; height= quot;78 quot; / gt;From Mullaitivu to Kurunegala to Athurigiriya, fury erupts among snaking lines of Sri Lankans hopelessly waiting for days on end for fuel. Finally, unity binds the Sinhale... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220619/columns/trying-to-take-the-world-for-a-ride-486228.html 18 June 2022 @ 5:44 pm Foreign Minister GL Peiris must surely find his right hand terribly sore. Turn over the pages of local newspapers and even some news sites and there he is shaking hands with numerous foreign politicians and diplomats that he must need a good rub down at the end of the day. More recently he was seen greeting the new Australian deputy prime minister in Singapore where Foreign Minister Peiris had ... http://www.sundaytimes.lk/220619/columns/a-convict-in-the-cabinet-can-prasanna-sit-without-qualm-in-the-house-486223.html 18 June 2022 @ 5:43 pm Cabinet Minister Prasanna Ranatunge sits comfortably in the House when, had it not been for a judge rsquo;s leniency, he should be doing hard labour at another Government institution: the Welikada Prison. He sits not merely unfazed in Parliament as Government Chief Whip but occupies, unperturbed, a seat in the Cabinet as Sri Lanka rsquo;s Minister of Urban Development and Housing. lt;img class=...