Thursday 4th November, 2021 Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa, in his speech, at a ceremony to mark the fifth anniversary of the SLPP, in Colombo, on Tuesday,...
Wednesday 3rd November, 2021 The government has reportedly claimed that the so-called one-country-one-law Presidential Task Force (PTF) will play only an advisory role. A member of...
Tuesday 2nd November, 2021 Electoral shocks are the political version of electroconvulsive therapy; they help knock some sense into politicians who get intoxicated with power and...
Monday 1st November, 2021 It has been reported that the Rajapaksa brothers saw red when one of the SLPP coalition leaders, at a recent meeting, expressed...
Unsurprisingly, the appointment of politician-monk, Ven. Galagodaaththe Gnanasara, as chairman of yet another Presidential Task Force (PTF), this one studying the implementation of the ‘One country,...
Saturday 30th October, 2021 A meeting between President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the leaders of the SLPP constituents ended inconclusively on Thursday. Among the participants were Prime Minister...
Friday 29th October, 2021 China has taken exception to the detection by Sri Lankan scientists of harmful bacteria in the samples of a consignment of Chinese...
Thursday 28th October, 2021 Power befogs governments, and makes them muddle along, impervious to reason. When intoxicated with power, politicians think they cannot be wrong and...
Wednesday 27th October, 2021 The government is behaving as if it had no problems to contend with. It is now talking about a proposal for the...
Tuesday 26th October, 2021 There is an uneasy truce between the government and the warring teacher-principal trade unions. What looks like a hug in the ring,...