TheSEC yesterday lifted the 10% band, which when it was imposed in the heady daysof the overheated market, where the pump and dump boys were in action, creatinga veritable casino in the stock market. Now in a dead market, which is likelyto remain like this for about 3 years before the next boom cycle comes onboard, this band was lifted, ...
It is very interesting to note how tables have been turned on the President in a way that I am sure he in his wildest dreams would not have imagined. It is also ironic that as a forceful defender of Human Rights with knowledge of the Law he (MR) was caught at BIA trying to take evidence to Geneva about ...
Whilst we are complaining about losing our democratic rights here in Sri Lanka to a dictatorial rogue, we must not forget the fact that there are other countries that are under the radar which are able to conceal their dictatorship in a sinister way.Take the case of Qatar. They came into my radar when they made the fatal mistake of ...
Rizana was executed despite an appeal from the President. I should really despite an appeal. If the President of Sri Lanka felt that appealing to his counterpart, the head of state of Saudi, to listen to him and take heed, it showed how sadly mistaken he is. Worse when he realizes that the Saudis have got him round their short ...
As another aspect of the tragedy that is Sri Lanka unfolds, the knives are out in force Chris Nonis, though I must say up front I shed no tears for him as he decided to lie in bed with leeches and got his blood completely sucked out!Nevertheless, it is quite clear that he is the victim of a setup, and ...
If you were shot and injured and by God’s good grace survived an attempted assassination in Sri Lanka in 2013, you have NO OPTION, if you feared for your life to heap praise on the ONE AND ONLY person who can both guarantee your safety or ensure you don’t live another second!!So it with a sense of angst that I ...
The US in its haste to be seen to do something is again engaged in remote control warfare and arming proxy fighters to do their dirty work for them. They ARE about to get involved in a campaign with a sect or off shoot of Al Qaeda that they helped create both by their actions in helping the Shia Govt. ...
Gupta I believe has made his own pile of sins on the IRCON deal – another cost to the people, and vast kickbacks to the henchman all to be paid by people of Sri Lanka for years to come. The contention by Sri Lankan experts who know their onions is unquestionable, and as they have NO personal stake here other ...
What what! Manners what is that? nothing to do with us!The band of shameless brigands who have taken power in Sri Lanka, think they can play with the lives of the Sri Lankan people, like they have all these years kick them from pillar to post to further their nests and ends.They now think they can do the same with ...
Nothing and everything. ISIS sprang from no where as an answer to frustration of Sunnis in Iraq and also in Syria of their respective governments, and how they discriminated against sects or people not of the main political party of the Govt.The BBS is trying to achieve the same end as that of majoritarian regimes, where minorities are only tolerated, ...
Asinine statements by people who have allowed power of a title to go to their head have now made a habit of hallucinating in their sleep. For a minister who only has got used to demanding his share of every deal, so much so that most deals that come his way have not materialized owing to sheer greed, and the ...
Whilst the market value of the CSE increased to 3 trillion rupees is a feat, one must be cautious when reading anything the CSE puts out.They are terribly anxious to show their performance in good light, but just look at the net inflows from overseas year to date 2014, appalling not even US$250M which is not even pea nuts, which ...
Since Sarath Fonseka came out, he has not stopped making comments that don’t pertain to him.A politician should work out what it is he stands for; his principles his vision and his methodology to achieve those goals.He has continued to chant the broken record of sound bites he did from jail. We all had a lot of hope that he ...
Are you working in collusion with the GOSL in making self defeating statements, aimed at strengthening the Central Govt. hold on the Peninsula?At the recently concluded ITAK convention where Senathirarajah ousted the more pliable Sambanthan there was a disturbing report about what Vigneswaran said at the event. This was reported by the Indian Express Newspaper in India, and I have ...
I believe it is now time to give the Primadonnas of our society a dose of their own medicine. Firstly, why should those who get the best results from Science Subjects at A levels, and some others who are chosen on the Z score basis, be selected to pursue Medicine at State Universities in Sri Lanka, without Charge, when it ...
An unprecedented event took place at the Colombo Tea Auctions. Akbar Brothers arguably the largest purchaser of Teas at the weekly auctions did not buy. They voted with their feet not raising their hands to bid. The price of tea dropped an average of Rs25/- per kg and most of the lots were withdrawn. The reason was that Mervyn ...
It is incredible what a bunch of rich spoilt schoolboys with an unlimited budget seem to get up to today. So when the Royal College rugby team went up to Kandy to play a rival at the intercollegiate under 19 team, they did not let the evening go without trivial pursuits.Remember that Royal College is a government non-fee-levying school, that ...
There is no point in going through the legal niceties to justify this or that, that is left to the Supreme Court and finally an immediate (not delayed) summoning of Parliament within 24 hours to determine who holds the confidence of the majority of the duly elected people of this Country. However for the record, the links below give ...
When people do not know why they do something and instead just take orders from others that is called following orders keeping your brain comatose as to why those orders are followed. That is why there are minors and adults. It is OK for minors to follow the advice or Adults for their protection, and when they are of the ...
It is particularly sad that no one has hitherto advised the Mahanayake Thera of the Asgiriya Chapter about the words he is supposed to have told the delegation of the United Bhikku Front when they visited him recently.Accordingly the purported report (manufactured as a figment of some wide imagination and ascribed to a Kamal Suraweera) the Most Ven. Undugama Sri ...