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The ongoing tussle between the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka (PUCSL) and the Ministry of Power and Energy starting from electricity tariff hikes to occasional pushbacks to the Ministry’s attempts to restructure the energy sector is well known and very public. Its current Chairman Janaka Rathnayake turned out to be a lone voice against [...]
Sensational claims
My dear Wije, I thought of writing to you because everyone is talking about you these days. That is after you made those sensational claims about compensation for the X-press Pearl ship which sank off our coast two years ago. That has got everyone talking. The spotlight is on you which is probably what you [...]
Was the Aragalaya a conspiracy or a spontaneous uprising?
Was the Aragalaya a conspiracy or was it a spontaneous uprising of a people facing a multitude of problems as a result of incompetent governance and a long line of wrong decisions? The debate (if it can be called that) raged in and out of Parliament last week on various aspects of the Aragalaya but [...]
Improvement in external finances despite fall in exports
The external finances of the country have improved and are likely to improve further this year. This is in spite of the trade deficit widening owing to decreased exports. The improvement in foreign finances is owing to increased earnings from tourism, higher remittances from abroad and international assistance. Nevertheless, the country’s foreign debt remains large. [...]
Pakistan and Lanka; an ‘aragalaya’ in several unholy acts
There is a stark difference between Sri Lanka’s multifaceted ‘aragalaya’ (the peoples’ struggle) of 2022 and the current unrest in Pakistan, with the deploying of the army throughout the land. A different trajectory of similar struggles To be blunt, that difference is the role of the Opposition in both countries. Common to Pakistan and Sri [...]
X-Press Pearl surfaces in Bahamas with billionaire passenger aboard
Another round of startling allegations by Justice Minister in the House The ongoing X-Press Pearl parliamentary saga took a new twist this week with the burnt ship surfacing in the Bahamas with a new crew and a billionaire passenger aboard. The Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa had made a sensational claim in last month’s episode that [...]
Justice Minister right man in the wrong job
The more I read of or listen to, excerpts of Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe’s parliamentary interventions shrouded in mystery the more I am tempted to empathise with those who say that he is in the wrong vocation. Just last week I read Justice Minister Rajapakshe’s tale to parliament of a secret plan to burn 100 [...]
With presidential election looming, SJB intensifies moves to form common platform
JVP-led NPP and SLFP distance themselves from any such coalition, but Weerawansa-Gammanpila alliance supports talks with SJB Namal says Aragalaya parties will reveal foreign forces that supported them TNA’s Sumanthiran says Aragalaya was hijacked by government leaders, asks why no action taken against them Britain takes up Sri Lanka’s issues, promises continuous support to recover [...]
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