In a crass and inhuman way the Government appears to be making plans NOT to take responsibility for the crisis resulting from the Drought. It was very apparent by 1st of May 2012 that we will be in for a dry period till the October rains. No amount of poojas for rains was going to bring the rains. The long ...
Mr Wijedasa Rajapakse MP, who I hold in high esteem, and who was the first sitting MP to be elected to the Presidency of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) has put forward a proposal to ban all members of clergy from holding political office.I wholeheartedly support that and I do believe that since the ascendency of Buddhist Clergy ...
The constant holding of elections in our democracy, where the Government uses all the resources at its disposal whether legal or illegal, is bad for good governance and fairness. The request to hold all the Provincial Council (PC) elections in one day has fallen on deaf ears, as not one to be even considered. It is a shame that the ...
Sri Lanka is beset by a complete breakdown in economic and financial policy with an impending implosion in Balance of Payments, Exchange Rate Policy, and loss of Reserves, all leading to a huge financial crisis with many already engaged in a flight of funds outside the country reminiscent of the Asian financial crisis of the 1990s.We however have a Finance ...
What could be more clear and definite as a statement by the General Secretary of the SLFP, namely Health Minister, Maithripala Sirisena. He stated that they WILL NOT nominate immediate relatives of existing Ministers of either the Central Govt. or of the Provincial Governments for the forthcoming elections. I was surprised that people believed the statements, especially as they were ...
The Government of Sri Lanka as usual is denying anything untoward in the unprovoked attack and killings with T56 assault rifles of two innocent people attending a political meeting of the JVP in a small house in Hambantota, a couple of days ago. The police spokesman is playing down the incident and the Director General of the Media Center for ...
The General’s comments about sacrificing his life to preserving democracy and law and order and justice have a hollow ring to it. This is in order only for him to gain the moral high ground in the media space.Yes he was shoddily treated and made to suffer by a spiteful government on trumped up charges, and suffered many indignities including ...
If a sense of paranoia was not enough, we have MR telling his Ministers and MPs not to attend any parties given by diplomatic missions, especially those with which we DO NOT have friendly relations!!Apparently the reason given was that they are trying to get classified information useful to those governments, and so he or the Presidential Secretariat will decide ...
The gumption of the SLMC to say that they will only align themselves with a party that will give the SLMC the right to choose the Chief Ministerial Candidate is tantamount to giving them autonomy over a whole region comprising of equal numbers of Tamil, Muslim and Sinhala people. The current Chief Minister is from the Government aligned TMVP and ...
The General Secretary of the SLFP, in an election rally in Polonnaruwa for the fight for control of the North Central Provincial Council, takes a 1994 allegation that the current party leader of the UNP had a hand in Chandrika’s Presidential Election win, by destroying chances of the UNP candidate Gamini Dissanayake, prior to him being assassinated.This was done to ...
The personal attacks, the vitriol and the unabashed hate of a supposedly Buddhist party is one reason if one was looking for it, to prevent Clergy from entering Parliament. They have left no stone unturned to make sure that this bill is not even brought into debate. Their character assassination and their reprehensible behavior in their quest is so un ...
In this made for TV politics of fooling the electorate, one of the modus operandi used by the Government is to make a show to the people, especially via the Government TV channels that dispels some of the common perceptions.This was so yesterday when the first public rally presided over by the President in the Anuradhapura District, turned into a ...
I see the following stances taken by the respective sides within Sri Lanka and comment on their respective positions.The GovernmentIt is clear on the outside that the Govt. of Sri Lanka is taking measures to ensure that this resolution is defeated at Geneva, as they do not believe it requires a resolution for the implementation of the LLRC recommendations. It ...
Theofficial combined opposition, with the leadership of the UNP, holds their MayDay Rally in Jaffna this year, which is a first in Jaffna, an integral part ofthe Republic. The UNP leadership has requested their electoral organizers tobring as many people from their individual electorates to Jaffna so that therally will have representation from all parts of the Island. It is ...
We begin the New Year with a Government firmly in power, but completely out of control. In that I mean, the President who governs by decree is being dealt a body blow by incompetent buffoons manning every Ministry. If I may refer to some of these incompetents by name they must begin with the Prime Minister, bless his soul, ...
First it was GL Peries who said that he had not said anything to Mr Krishna the Indian Foreign Minister, when he visited Sri Lanka about promising 13+, now it is the same story over again, when the leader of the Indian Opposition, Mrs Sushma Swaraj made a statement in no uncertain terms stating that the President agreed to 13+. ...
It was reported today that 3 UNP MP’s a couple of Provincial Councilors and other elected officials amounting to 17 have had their party membership suspended due to their disobeying the whip requesting that they not attend the rally at Hyde Park organized by the breakaway faction from the UNP called the United Bhikku Front!If one looks at this action ...
Everyone is asking, where is the Opposition UNP on this impeachment issue, where do they stand? And what are they doing about it? Remember the UNP has already been at the butt end of politically motivated decisions by the Judiciary against the Party, more as a witch hunt against it. So how can they now defend the Judiciary when it ...
You once gave us hope that there might be a face of oppositionYou once gave people something to hang on to called senseYou once gave meaning to the word stand up for what is rightYou once stood tall in the face of retribution, and revengeYou once held us all in awe of what might have beenIt ended in you being ...
In its Headlines “Impeachment Justified says Legal Fraternity” the Daily News the Govt. Paper, today only names one hardly consequential individual of a ‘Jayatissa de Costa’ and hence HOW CAN HE BE THE LEGAL FRATERNITY. For a paper to be so blasé as to make such insinuations without a qualm is the evidence that everything the Govt. does is justified.How ...