It is becoming increasingly apparent that the people we thought were beyond reproach, in terms of moral character, and commonsense are in fact charlatans!Into this cacophony of voices, I must add the likes of Eran Wickremaratne, Harsha de Silva, Ajith Perera all Ministers in the present Government.http://www.dailymirror.lk/118414/UNP-says-prepared-to-amend-laws-to-recover-losses?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=facebookThe first law that must be amended is the life tenure of Government Servants ...
What address would you prefer to have? 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC or 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC?Well, 1600 is the White House, while 1100 is the Trump International Hotel in Washington DC which was conveniently opened last week at what was the OLD POST OFFICE BUILDING. https://www.trumphotels.com/washington-dc/Just check it out. It is far grander than the White ...
The General Public by and large were baying for the blood of the former Governor of the Central Bank, to be implicated by COPE for the Bond Scandal, and they appeared to have got what they asked for, but is that the whole story?The former Governor for his part has said that he will return from Singapore to clear his ...
While I said in this Blog on 12 January 2015 not to put Arjuna Mahendran in a compromising situation due to his son in law's investment in the largest Bond Trader in Sri Lanka, no one listened then. So he was appointed the Governor of CBSL. We know what happened, but do we?THE ONLY POOR JUDGMENT WAS THE CONFLICT OF ...
It is obvious that through out this whole saga of the "Bond Scandal" which should read the Central Bank Incompetency Scandal but does not sound as sexy, NO OTHER PRIMARY DEALERS HAVE EMERGED TO FILL THE VOID. NO Risk takers around, why be a risk taker and make profits, when there are so many envious people who hate people making ...
The ignorance of the General Public is so massive, that they seem to fail to understand that anything coming out of COPE is merely political, from politicians, bent on reinforcing a political agenda, and therefore CANNOT BE TRUSTED IN THE SRI LANKAN CONTEXTOnce the public have already made up their minds on a subject they know nothing about, but which ...
We were just informed that the Commercial Bank issue of Rs5B of listed debentures was oversubscribed 2 times, and so they will go up to Rs7B.While the cretins at the Central Bank have been able to craftily shift the blame of their incompetence to Perpetual Treasuries, if they did what Commercial Bank just did, NO ONE will be the loser ...
It is very sad that the first instincts subsequent to the killings was to cover it up. It shows how stupid some people in the Police Force are, and their inability to comprehend that this was NOT an option in 2016, as it is NOT MARA on top!Secondly, this cover-up and later intervention by the PRESIDENT to overturn the obvious ...
This is a highly politicized document, by POLITICIANS. An opinion that will NOT stand as evidence even in a Court of Law, but which the General Public have mistakenly taken as the final judgement! It is time that someone has the guts to explain this as NOT a fact but an opinion, and mention the names and the parties those ...
If this was the best the USA can do in 2016, should I say, may God help the USA or the WORLD! It was purely and simply a disgrace.Even Sri Lankan political arguments have more content and coverage. No problems really resolved, and as the Candidates positions on the 2nd Amendment (The Constitutional Right to Bear Arms) and on Abortion ...
I found these two reports equally funny, as to the stupidity of people but for different ways.They are very different, but they both make statements that are outrageous and there are people who actually believe them, and act upon that belief.The first was merely taking a currency note turning it upside down, and taking photo of it and then posting ...
19th October 2016I hope to watch this debate tomorrow morning Sri Lankan time, IF the rain does not play havoc with the TV signal on CNN!The reality is that the two worst candidates in US History are vying to be the next President of the United States, when there is overwhelming opinion, that if Michelle Obama had been the third ...
With the resignation of the Director General of the Bribery Commission, and the possible resignation of others of the Commission, the public are wondering what is going on.On top of this another arm, has arrested and bailed out Thirukumar Nadesan, a person who is highly connected to both the previous Rajapakse administration, not merely because he happens to be the ...
As if the Dilrukshi Dias Wickremasinghe saga is difficult to stomach and the media has already concluded upon the reasons, accurate or not, we must look into the insecurity, lack of certainty, pressures of office, lack of leadership, need for thorough investigation, lack of competent adequately compensated staff and resources, in prosecuting crimes, ON BEHALF THE PEOPLE OF SRI LANKA ...
“Aiyo Sirisena” – Oh Yeah O Yeah ! Let it be known that in the PARADISE land of the LOTUS EATERS now known (for how long we are now no longer sure) as SRI LANKA, when faced with embarrassing exposure, the newly elected King of this TEAR DROP ISLAND allowed tears to overflow, and gush once again. He decided to ...
I have been writing for years in this blog about ways we can really improve the performance of Sri Lanka.What I mean by that is ways and means where the people of Sri Lanka can improve their quality of life. Sadly there appears to be NO ONE interested in this, but who continue to maintain that is what they are ...
When you have a chance of cleaning up Rs5B profit and you don’t make it, then you are responsible for actually losing this on behalf of the people of Sri Lanka. Where is the Media coverage on this error? Not surprising considering the idiots called Journalists.Perpetual Treasuries gain of Rs5B is actually BOC's Loss of the same amount! They made ...
When there is freedom of expression, journalistic ethics determines that it is used responsibly for the sake of the society at large, and those taking undue advantage for a personal psychological shortcoming of theirs must be suppressed.Too many fools who think they are holier than thou, have been duped by WA and his pronouncements. Today, those who continue to give ...
Reports, can be true and then again maybe false, that President Sirisena is most upset with the FCID, PRECIFAC , CID and Bribery Commission over the arrest of Ghotabhaya Rajapakse and three former Navy Commanders over the Avant Garde case. Why I know not, due to their obvious involvement in conduct outside the law of the land, but then Sirisena ...
The Central Bank Supervision Departments have a standard checklist they use when on their field visits to check the compliance of their guidelines. All Primary dealers were subjected to the same rigorous standards. PERPETUAL’S was the best, so why haven’t the others been leaked? It was simply a case of an internal vendetta of sour grapes of disgruntled Govt. Servant ...