Friday 14th May, 2021 The incumbent government always finds itself up the creek, so to speak, by trying to delay the inevitable and defend the indefensible....
Thursday 13th May, 2021 The government has bowed to the inevitable at last. Countrywide travel restrictions are now in force. Belated as this measure may be,...
Wednesday 12th May, 2021 There is a lot of brouhaha over the government’s claim that it influenced the World Health Organization (WHO) decision to approve the...
Tuesday 11th May, 2021 The Covid-19 morbidity and mortality rates have been on the rise steadily since the conclusion of the recent avurudu celebrations. What we...
Monday 10th May, 2021 The global pandemic situation is far worse than it looks. The University of Washington estimates reveal that Covid-19 has snuffed out 6.9...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, it appears, is a firm believer in big, bold strokes in taking far-reaching policy decisions. The recent decision to immediately ban the import...
Saturday 8th May, 2021 The police are busy, these days, arresting, as they do, scores of ordinary people daily for violating the Covid-19 protocol. They are...
Friday 7th May, 2021 Most government politicians are in the news, always for the wrong reasons. Minister Gamini Lokuge has not only endangered the lives of...
Thursday 6th May, 2021 The SLFP, which fears that legal action will be taken against its leader and former President Maithripala Sirisena, over the Easter Sunday...
Wednesday 5th May, 2021 April is apparently the cruellest month in this country, as we said in a previous comment, with apologies to T. S. Eliot....