By Rohana R. Wasala Part I appeared yesterday During an interview conducted in Sinhala on a You Tube channel on October 27, 2021, Shiraz Yunus, who...
By Rohana R. Wasala The web portal reported Tuesday December 21, 2021: “Riyadh holds 4-day EDM carnival”. Commenting on the electronic dance music extravaganza, unprecedented in...
By Harim Peiris The New Year 2022 is upon us and with it also, late last year, the completion of two years of the first SLPP...
It is reported that a Cabinet reshuffle is in the offing and along with it some State ministries will also be given more responsibilities; the departments...
It is indeed amusing to read this debate published in The Island about an “economic roundtable towards a consensus”, presumably to help Sri Lanka’s politicians to...
Why hoard? Because agents in the market expect a scarcity of a commodity in future. If scarcity is predicted, then consumers hoard, retailers hoard, wholesalers hoard,...
Crackers did burst, and rockets did fly with blasts. As the old year folded up, the fireworks continued. Were some of the louder blasts from gas...
At the very beginning, prejudices should be shunned away. Based on scientific experiments, behavioural economists show that there are strong biases in the human mind. Due...
The report of the expert committee appointed to investigate on LP gas cylinders was handed over to President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on 20 December and both the...
Is it going to be another ‘New Year’ with only the usual change of calendars? Or, one marked by a more judicious change of cooking methods:...