If one reads the link which refers to all the means by which people try to circumvent the rules in Beijing to be able to drive there, you can be assured that the Sri Lankan driver or car owner will be just as if not more devious than that in finding ways to circumvent these rules. Even the congestion charge, ...
Isn't it ironic that the person universally commended as being the best possible person to hold the job as the Director of Wildlife Conservation resigned within MONTHS of his appointment due to interference from Politicians.In short, though it was through the personal intervention of the PM that he took this job, the PM did not have the balls to dress ...
There is a man full of bile prancing around as a journalist, who though US educated and who also educates his daughter at Ladies is nevertheless someone who despises anything American, Liberal or capitalist or for what matter Western, in his writings, though a closet capitalist, which he does not want to admit to in his desires, who would be ...
Navin Dissanayake, when he was the Minister of Sports in the 100 day Govt. (son if Gamini Dissanayake, the former head of SLC when we obtained Test Status) had a plan to clean up cricket. However he was NOT able to fully implement his plan ti improve the game and the administration, before the election, and we saw the appointment ...
It is a simple case of the pot calling the kettle black! Too pathetic for words.It was extremely childish, puerile is the word of the “sour grapes attitude” of the President of Sri Lanka Cricket to question the rights of person to act professionally. It must be because this man has never acted professionally and a BOOKIE is still wagering ...
The Prime Minister appears to be fed up with the state of our Media, especially because they have been prostitutes for so long, that when the YAHAPALANAYA Govt. came along and their gravy train stopped, they wanted a return to the Status Quo or a Rajapaksa Govt. where the Media “WERE TAKEN CARE OF” better than in any time in ...
The people of Sri Lanka clearly gave a mandate for the new Govt. to immediately establish GOOD GOVERNANCE in order to protect the Country from the Robber Barons in Business and Politics. NO QUESTION ABOUT IT!SO why is it so hard to do that? People’s power rules OK. We also know that the same Robber Barons are at work in ...
I don’t know if the YAHAPALANAYA Govt. is asleep at the wheel when obviously wrong, brazen and unforgivable acts of treason take place under their very noses.If we just take the case of NDB for this example, and it is just one of too many to recall just yet, but which will one by one be exposed for the knowledgeable ...
The recent failed coup, President Erdogan nearly lost his life, if the helicopters aimed at the right house, has proved to be a watershed of NUCLEAR proportions, the reality of which we have yet to face, and NO ONE wishes to contemplate.Already Erdogan has incarcerated 10,000 people and has suspended from duty, 20,000 people from Government Servants and Teachers, most ...
The attached link is so irrelevant as to almost make a joke of the man making it! It is meant to show by statistics that Muslims are by definition peace loving people, and saying that the past Nobel Peace Prize winners were 42% Muslim! How inherently misplaced is that?http://www.huffingtonpost.com/omar-alnatour/muslims-are-not-terrorist_b_8718000.htmlLittle Malala (my hero who I regularly use in lectures, as one ...
ANIMALS AND ENVIRONMENT LOSES – COUNTRY LOSESIt is simply NOT in the interests of a Geriatric Minister, to immediately sort out the problem of the Department which is crucial for the sustainability of Sri Lanka. It is time the PM fires this OLD FOSSIL of a Minister who is not even ashamed of himself, as he is past his sell ...
I must confess the events of the past few weeks from June 23rd onwards has left be breathless, as each day I return home and put on the international TV channels, I am fed with new developments, though unlikely the previous day. Surely we can only take so much, so in some quarters people must be in a serious ...
Wherever I go, businessmen complain that they don’t know how to cope with an ever changing taxation environment, that from last November’s budget, changes seem to occur on a regular basis, that makes planning for the future extremely difficult. Worse with backdated taxes, no one knows where they stand, Govt. policy is viewed as being schizophrenic at best.In light of ...
Wijewardena, by his own article has been able to show himself to be one who just does not understand monetary policy and practice by his own vociferous defence of private placements, which have basically ruined the small saver, and reduced the returns of the EPF being forced to buy low yield securities and encouraged Govt. profligacy due to their artificially ...
The link shows that Sri Lanka just raised US$500M of 5 ½ yr bonds with yields of 5.75% and raised US$1Billion of 10yr bonds with yields of 6.825% where orders hit US$6.6B. Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and SCG were the bankers/ book-runners for the issue.http://www.economynext.com/Sri_Lanka_sells_US$1.5bn_in_5_and_10_year_sovereign_bonds-3-5551-3.htmlIt is important to read that German interest rates are negative! So my contention is that ...
I have been bowled over by the hits my blog has received from the USA as a result of this trilogy of using the words, US Embassy as the caption. I don’t know if other non-interested parties opened this site, as I am sure the State Department and Intelligence Agencies that logged on do so anonymously, and don’t get recorded ...
Ask yourself, is Sri Lanka the ONLY country on the face of the Earth that has permitted the US to build their Embassy right in front of our seat of the Executive?Answer YESSSSSSSSSS!What is wrong with you guys the politicians? Don’t you smell a rat? No you are too preoccupied with importing your duty free car, and by doing so ...
In today’s Sunday Observer, I was perturbed to read that plans are afoot for a US$150M, complex, when completed in 3 years will amount to Rs30B in the exchange rate prevailing then.http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2016/07/10/new12.asp I remember when I met Ambassador Sisson many years ago, she mentioned that they had bought the UK High Commission land that was up for sale, and in ...
There is NO parliamentarian who really understands what the Auditor General’s voluminous 1200 page report of figures, none of which has been properly understood by those who compiled it, and none of those compilers know how bond trading actually works in practice.It is due to this very reason, that it is open to misinterpretation, due to ignorance of the true ...
Why is it that everybody in Sri Lanka is playing politics for their own self preservation, and NOT interested what happens to the Country? Do the people really understand this state of play even today?The last 7 blog entries have been about just that, and we are on a self destruct mode, to finish off people we don’t like, not ...