We will see later today, another attempt by the President to do what he is best at micro manage every aspect of life in Sri Lanka. In simple words, interference in something he knows nothing about. He has called a meeting of Stock Brokers and High Networth Investors today, to see what he can do to bring life back to ...
A team from the CID has raided the offices of Sri Lanka Mirror that has a website and has removed its computers and other items that it uses to publish information on the web and taken staff for questioning. The Sri Lanka X news is also administered from this location, and I would think this site will also be out ...
As a matter of practice, Friday’s in Parliament on weeks they are in session is usually reserved for votes of condolence for Parliamentarians who have passed on! Today is no exception, and Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra will be remembered today. No doubt members of his family will come to the visitors’ gallery to hear parliamentarians ‘praise’ the individual no matter what ...
The alleged incident where a Cabinet Minister is said to have threatened a judge in a small court in a faraway place, and which has now gone viral is actually as a result of a much bigger issue that MUST be resolved first.It is called the ‘independence of the judiciary’. As long as there is NO respect for our judiciary ...
This is a good example for people looking at Sri Lanka objectively to understand why we are in a perpetual war of attrition, caused by the over politisation of the Country. Following on from my previous entry on the lack of law and order in SL in the first instance, which lead to the event in Mannar of the Minister ...
Govt. doctors do private practice after hours! We all know that some Govt. hospital surgeons are busy cutting people up at places like Central Hospital at 12 Midnight. Now the GMOA want them to use their leave time to work during normal hours, to combat, or prevent foreign doctors being hired by Private Hospitals.See link for the demands that have ...
For whatever reason, paranoia or need to check on those who are not on the current flagged list, two individuals were abducted by the State apparatus a few days ago, and thanks to the “hue and cry” by the Australian High Commissioner, the matters came to a close this morning with one of them, an Australian citizen under a passport ...
As usual the policy makers in Govt. made a very bad assumption in their bid to tell their master the President that there was another painless way of raising some taxes without people feeling it. They said we will collect the 12% VAT on vatable sales from large retailers that have a turnover of over Rs500M a quarter, which only ...
President Mahinda Rajapkse as we all know took an amazing amount of harsh criticism from Chandrika Kumaratunge, when she was President. He did not retaliate at that time, but bit his tongue and waited patiently for his time. Now he is President he does not mince words when he needs to, about the faults or made up faults of ...
The Court of Appeal (CA) today issued notice on the respondents including the Speaker, not to deliberate on the verdict of the PSC until they have been able to give sufficient explanations on why there has not been a fair hearing.How will the Govt. react to this huge SLAP IN THE FACE? They have only one course of action. Just ...
What kind of example are people of repute showing the public? It was clear that a punishable crime was committed in full view of the cameras on Monday at Siri Kotha. Considerable damage to property including vehicles was done by these demonstrators who were unhappy with the result of the outcome of the leadership and election to other positions. ...
We are fooling our voter base by distorting reality. We have a leader who goes about comparing the world polluters as the worlds worst human rights violators. Why does he choose only USA? After all the worst polluter in the world is China. Where is he calling them the worlds worst human rights violators.That my friends is the irony or ...
It was obvious that the peaceful demo outside the Fort Railway Station, which drew a substantial crowd, considering it was Friday afternoon was again met with unnecessary force with the use of ‘tear gas’ and ‘water cannons’ neither of which is necessary to calm the exuberance of the few in the demo, who tried to break up the police ...
The President touched down in his Helicopter at a school grounds on his way to open the Kadawatha underpass on Saturday. Next to the grounds is a well known and respected Buddhist Temple. As is customary and good PR he drops in on the Chief Priest of the Temple to pay his respects. He is always used to sitting ...
So here we go again. Diesel up by 36% or Rs31 to 115 a litre! Petrol by 12 and Kerosene, the poor man's fuel by Rs35 and so all subsidies on fuel are now in balance, as requested by the IMF to give Sri Lanka the latest tranche of US$800M to bail the country out of a debilitating balance of ...
In my previous entry I questioned why there was no response. It just took a while in coming and what better way than give the task to the Deputy Speaker, to say, as I said they would, that they will ignore the Notice.As I said, the Court had no option but to come to the conclusion they did and further ...
It appears that Mr Sajith Premadasa, the person who was most likely to become the UNP leader the next time round has committed a series of blunders, each compounding on the previous one not to increase the number of his supporters but to decrease them. While I am certain that the Opposition Leader, Ranil Wickremasinghe is NOT behind this ...
The dregs of Sri Lanka politics, in this case that person who masquerades as an MP and worse uses his uneducated ness to boss the whole Foreign Service cadre around was unsurprisingly involved in a kicking incident.What do you expect from touts such as this who think that Blue Label is alcohol, and worse who cannot hold their drink and ...
do we now ignore them or suppress them by accusing them of illegal activity?The latest step of the daily litany of bizarre behavior by a militant band of self proclaimed Buddhists, is the storming of a hotel in the Southern Coastal Belt, because the word “Nirvana” was used in the description of a dinner a group of tourists were having ...
Sunday Island comes out with a headline - April 15th that says ‘many war missing could have obtained new identities – Gota’. Come on Editor why even print this?Of course we have always known, and I don’t know why it has taken 3 years for Gota to even say such, when a terrorist who escapes, and wants to hide his ...