This is being written before the budget was presented on Friday due to technical demands of printing the Sunday Island on Friday night. Hence our commentary...
Saturday 13th November, 2021 President Gotabaya Rajapaksa made a gem of a statement, while speaking at an event to mark the World Science Day, at Temple...
Friday 12th November, 2021 The government is acting as if it had solved all the burning problems the country is beset with; it has undertaken to...
Thursday 11th November, 2021 Politics usually has on the reputations of eminent scholars the same effect as a smidgen of cow dung on a pot of...
Wednesday 10th November, 2021 A beggar woman has been arrested for going on a shopping spree by using a credit card that a kind-hearted lady happened...
Tuesday 9th November, 2021 Afghanistan is experiencing a severe food shortage, and the situation is expected to take a turn for the worse during the current...
Monday 8th November, 2021 Health experts are making gloomy predictions about the spread of Covid-19 here. Director General of Health Services Dr. Asela Gunawaradena has warned...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa returned home to Sri Lanka on Thursday to a plateful of problems, many of his own making. The farmers protests over the import...
Saturday 6th November, 2021 Tragic as Sri Lanka’s situation is, conspiracy theories that politicians come out with all too often remind us of Shakespeare’s comedy, A...
Friday 5th November, 2021 India, yesterday, deployed its Air Force cargo planes to transport consignments of nano nitrogen liquid fertiliser here. The emergency airlift of fertiliser...