Dear Sir What you have predicted has eventually come true, and the gall of it, Columbians are blaming you for that too!! So it is time for you to bury the hatchet, and forget your dislike of the Media in Sri Lanka, and come out and make the speech of your life, as a true Statesman, who has endured ...
It was obvious that the Mahinda Chinthanaya included the abolition of the Executive Presidency as part of its main themes, as it was a politically popular move, crafted to get votes and nothing else. Once in power the Govt. had NO intention of doing so. So it must be said of anyone else in the opposition making it a plank ...
It seems incredible that within two weeks of secrets and gossip, the motion to Impeach the CJ was presented to the Speaker. Was it in the offing for a long time, and the Govt. chose the moment to coincide with the Divi Neguma ruling, which they are not pleased about?In either case there has been NO public discussion of possible ...
What do we do with this thorn in the backside? He was the General who won the war, who the President praised from every hill top as the man who saved this country from a lifetime of subjugation. That was until he shouted his mouth off, became the common candidate for the combined opposition a sorry ass bunch of ...
It is clear that none of the MPs who signed the document requesting the impeachment of the CJ had read what they were signing or knew the 14 point allegation against the CJ. They just did what they were asked to do, NO QUESTIONS ASKED!! History will judge these subservient sycophants, who will be seen as people with no backbone ...
In order to preserve Market Share CBL products will remove ‘Halal’ logos from their products sold in Sri Lanka, once their existing stock of packaging is exhausted and new packaging sans the label are printed.With the Bodu Bala Sena network gathering steam, decrying any religious extremism, and washing their hands of the recent Kuliyapitiya, Maharagama inflammatory episodes, are now concentrating ...
Is it any wonder that the FT today said the academics of UVA backed Shasheendra. The first mutt is the Professor Premala Silva from the Uva Wellassa University. He is talking cock because the number of students at Uva Wellassa is embarrassingly low even though it is situated in UVA and is designed to be more employment friendly, and geared ...
Dulles Allahaperuma a Cabinet Minister in the current Govt. appears to be in want of something and someone to blame other than himself, and so when they could not blame the JVP or the UNP for sins of the past, resorted to one of the worst political tricks in the book, to blame the predecessor of the Current President, from ...
Who but the most ignorant would deny that the only friends we seem to draw to us are all those questionable nations, such as Lesotho, Libya, Uganda, Seychelles, Myanmar, Maldives, and Afghanistan to name a few. Why is this? Why are we desperate to seek our friends amongst these? Is it because we cannot even match the standards of others ...
Will Sri Lanka be able to field so many Parliamentary Select Committees for every event? After the recent Impeachment motion giving rise to the PSC, I hear that there is a request for a PSC for the prison riot. The PSC s are therefore an indication of the issues that seem to be cropping up and it appears that they ...
Come to your senses read the link to the Island article and realize what Gota is on about. There is NO direct communication as there is a stalemate between two immovable pillars, (obstacles to the peace process they both are) who have loud speakers talking to thin air hoping someone will listen and take action. http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=110143In case you were wondering ...
A rational observer who went to the Hyde Park Rally yesterday, organized by the United Bhikku Front a non-existent organization must feel that the Maha Sangha in the form of the Bhikkus should not get involved in this sort of divisive politics. It should have been organized by Sarath Fonseka himself so why use a number of breakaway monks to ...
It is only when an individual faces injustice, that he or she wants someone to complain to and do something about it. It is not until one is faced with that dilemma that one realizes that the system is stacked against you. The Court system is corrupt or it takes too long or costs too much. We do not have ...
It is not the particular incident itself that has got me riled up, it’s the level to which impunity and not taking responsibility for one’s actions, that has got my goat! First Rishad says he was never at the scene. Sure you do not have to be face to face to threaten. We know what Gotabaya R is capable of ...
After all the hoopla surrounding his freedom, ex General Sarath Fonseka seems to crave all the attention he can get. As if the time in prison was not enough, where his every uttering was planned and communicated in the media, it seems that before he can ascertain what his true freedoms are he has begun a series of interviews.In my ...
It was in this weblog, that I cut to shreds the idea of imposing fees for news websites. I said it was the most outrageous thing that could be done to individual freedom in a country and one which drives away the ability of local people to excel in the ‘web news’ field. After all, no Website hosted overseas will ...
The dilemma that is Ranil! He is faced with a huge conflict, owing to the exercise of insane judgments in the past by the Judiciary, (schizophrenically run) which has been the single biggest reason for the demise of the UNP, and the blame solely falling on Ranil W, and the clamoring opposition against the Government being directed at defending this ...
Yesterday in Bandaragama. What on earth members of the Sajith faction, maintaining that Mr Premadasa was to attend a meeting at a senior UNP ex MP’s residence, were planning is anybody’s guess. Ostensibly it was to plan a commemoration for the death anniversaries of both Dudley and DS Senanayake, as that excuse is safe. This lot seem to spend their ...
Nowhere in the press has the full extent of the battle with Unilever, that Food City is raging been shown. Why? Obviously both Unilever and Food City spend Billions in Advertising that the Media, radio, tv and newspapers depend on and they want to conduct a secret war, out of the limelight!! Such is the power of Multinationals and Larger ...
The tragedy that befell Sri Lanka at the Eastern Provincial Council Elections was that the voting pattern went more on ethnic lines than in prior periods. The only truly National Party left in Sri Lanka, the UNP lost its Provincial Council Seat in Batticaloa held by Shashidaran a Tamil origin person. They managed to get one seat in the Trincomalee ...