As each day passes and more mistakes and errors of judgment are made by Sajith I find that he is unfit for high office, and has damaged any future chance he may have of leading the UNP. The latest was his complete and unabashed support for Sirasa TV for their personal attack on RW, Sajith's party leader. It is ...
In my opinion, Ranil Wickremasinghe’s perspicacious analysis of the above two rising stars of the UNP has undoubtedly led him to believe that in NO uncertain terms will he allow either to be the party leader at the present moment despite the perilous state of the party. I will recommend both Sajith and Dayasiri, who I admire to read ...
The hens are finally coming home to roost. Following an unprecedented hike in fuel prices, from which the bus fares rose 20% and other items such as flour, cigarettes and alcohol we had a great Vesak present of a huge hike in the cooking gas prices, along with Milk Powder as being the hikes with the most impact, and then ...
Whether or not Sarath Fonseka will be released seems to be the talk of the day. However as I have noted in both my previous blog entries, the on again off again saga of this episode is mater minded by the President who holds all the cards. As I have also said before he is playing a game, with all ...
The level to which people were forced to attend the Government May Day rally was not made clear to me until I heard this from one who was forced to attend.The government recently gave temporary positions for unemployed graduates in local government offices, known as District Secretariats. About 10,000 were placed there with a monthly stipend of Rs10,000, on a ...
It was interesting to note that Mr AJM Muzammil was sworn as the Mayor of the CMC in front of the Leader of the Opposition. I was not privy to the oath of swearing in, but I presume this is not a required formality, and just one for the media. It would be interesting to actually see the words of ...
There were frantic behind the scenes discussion last week where government officials and mainly foreign office personnel were asked to find some official in the NZ government to send an invitation to the Sri Lankan President to meet with. How low can a President of a country stoop to? This was so that the US$100,000 box at the World ...
Who are the winners in this abduction fiasco? No doubt it the Government. If that is the case, that in itself will lend credence to their direct involvement. Secondly it is the Frontline Socialist Party that obtained publicity beyond their wildest dreams, much to the dismay of the regular JVP who are expressing great displeasure at all this cuffufle about ...
The delegates themselves have been accused of Human Rights Violations while in Geneva! So now we have a real problem. She is due to come to Sri Lanka too.Are we frightened to take this up with her, lest she can prove it? Inaction is tantamount to guilt, so we assume they are Guilty. What do we do about them? Hand ...
As this is a political blog meant to arouse the readers intellect into the minefield of Sri Lankan politics warts and all it is now time to reflect the state of the political landscape, that enables the ruling Junta to operate in.Let us start with JVP; ostensibly split, the latest news headlines of the Frontline Socialist Party being shamed by ...
It is very sad that the current impasse with regard to Foreign Pressure on the accountability issue of alleged war crimes is played two ways for different audiences and one has no idea of the other due to the breakdown in language.The Sinhala press now blames everything on a US conspiracy to attack Sri Lankan people as the US ...
If there was a sure thing that was not to be, it was the drama surrounding the release of Ex Army General Sarath Fonseka. The Gullible Sri Lankan media, with not ONE articulate and clever journalist within its ranks, completely accepted at face value the statement made by MR about the impending release of SF. There was not one person ...
I was reminded today by a DBS Jeyaraj article about how Ghotabaya had sent Karuna to the UK to be with his wife, on a false Diplomatic Passport on an assumed name and all the shenanigans thereafter when he was found out and the breach of Diplomatic Protocol and all the jokes that emanated from that saga.For someone that is ...
It was just reported that the impeachment motion against the CJ has been handed to the speaker, by the parliamentarians whose signatures are attached. I honestly never thought it would come to this. Why would a Government in the throes of a UNHRC review today, trying to explain its behavior, want an impeachment motion on flimsy grounds against the CJ?The ...
Sri Lanka today is served by a Government that just does not seem to get anything right, are unable to take the responsibility for any wrong doing and are happily day dreaming in a world where its subjects too seem either to be too apathetic or so servile, that they are capable of accepting any nonsense as sense.The cost ...
The tragedy of being a member of the Armed Forces all one’s life is that by the time one retires from it one is just nothing more than a cut and polished soldier without an ounce of intelligence or a mind of one’s own.We have endured a few years of the super tactician who ruthlessly carried out the express mission ...
I am really sad to know that a person who lost a contest fair and square by a huge margin, is now acting like a sore loser again after being stripped off his Deputy Whip post in the UNP. I was an admirer of his, as so many in the country are, but if any man has any common ...
The President loves to hold the cards close to his chest, and from time to time for some personal sense of vicarious amusement at other people’s misfortune, he attempts to spice the lives of newspapers by speculating that Sarath Fonseka may be released. This game has resurfaced and Newspapers have been given something to keep the editors busy, whilst the ...
The current vendetta of the Sirasa TV and related group against the Opposition Leader has created a false picture of him as being a huge deterrent to the misfortunes of the party. It is really regrettable that a personal feud between Killi Maharajah and Ranil Wickremasinghe because RW did not give the requested National List seats to a subsequently proved ...
A comment on a posting in the Transcurrents web site – Advice re the LLRC voteI note below a comment I wrote on an article published in the Transcurrents web site http://transcurrents.com/news-views/archives/9784 on 19th March 2012The article was by a Sinhala Canadian Lawyer by the name of Viresh Fernando sent as an open letter to the Sinhala Canadians and headed, ...
