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Sat, 26 Oct 2024 Today's Paper
The doctors were at it again last Wednesday when the members of the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) launched yet another 24-hour token strike, which according to media reports, had crippled the healthcare services in hospitals countryw
The chaotic political environment in the country is just what some lawmakers want. The Mahinda Rajapaksa group reached its peak in politics during 2005-2015, a turbulent time in the island.
If there is one exercise our Sri Lankan Politicians are brilliant at it is ‘Power Struggle’ and the struggle is on!!! All the Rajapaksa brothers are in the forefront, CASES PENDING IN COURT AND ‘DUAL CITIZENSHIP’ NOTWITHSTANDING!!!
The issue of abolition of executive Presidential mode of governance has become a laughing stock since lately, especially following the latest efforts by the ruling United National Party (UNP) and President Maithripala Sirisena to materialize it.
Presidential Election is fast approaching and if anything; the campaigning has already begun, largely on social media. It was after the 2010 elections that Sri Lankan politicians began to use social media.
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey - Malcolm De Chazal For years people who live in the lower end of Sri Nanda Jotikarama Road, Thalawathugoda, just 2 km South-East of parliament have got used
Last week, the Police officially announced that the ban on the full-face veil which was imposed under the emergency regulations in the aftermath of the Easter Sunday attacks is no longer valid as a result of the expiration of the emergency regulation
It was Karl Marx who said, ‘History repeats itself, first as Tragedy second as Farce’- the Kumarathunga-Rajapaksa confrontation in 2005 was very much similar to today’s crisis in the UNP’s Wickremesinghe—Premadasa Clash.Kumarathunga....
Ilika Karunaratne in her article in the Daily Mirror under the caption “Rebels without a Cause” begins her article with the facile sentence “They know very well the procedure that is followed and should have bode their time....
Since we gained independence from the British in 1948, the country has had two Governors General, one Constitutional President and six Executive Presidents. We have also had three constitutions.
Sri Lanka is quite famous in creating world records. A few of them are good records but most of them are bad ones. At the moment we have the record of being in 2nd position among the countries which have the highest number of public holidays.
On September 23 (Monday) the United Nations had convened a Climate Action Summit (CAS) with concrete and realistic plans to accelerate action to implement the 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change. The Paris Agreement covers issues such as mitigati
Tempered by the travail of time, now I am ever ready to accept blame when I go wrong. Further, I admit an ageing brain can misinterpret facts. On seeing the glaring headline “Where did Dr. Upul go wrong” (Daily Mirror, 19 September), I began wond
“The Prime Minister is Dead” was the striking headline in extra-large, bold letters of a special edition published by the now defunct “Times of Ceylon” on the morning of Saturday, September 26, 1959.
With Sri Lanka’s presidential election to be held on November 16, the main party candidates need to give a pledge that they will give priority to climate change issues and we are happy to reveal....
On the strong recommendation of a friend, I visited an astrologer cum séance whose skills were hailed with words such as “unbelievable, fantastic and amazing”. I went to see this “gifted” person with the air of a certain Thomas with doubts.
National Elections Commission (NEC) on Wednesday announced the dates for the much-talked-about Presidential election and the nomination period for it. Nominations will be entertained on October 7 and the election....
The hype that came about immediately after Gotabhaya was announced as the SLPP presidential candidate by a sullen faced Mahinda Rajapaksa whose preamble for the announcement was all about his own credentials...
The island-wide token strike launched by the Government Medical Officers Association (GMOA) not only crippled some of the health services in the country, but also inflicted mental wounds on patients who were inconvenienced.
Neither Saudi Arabia nor the United States will start a war on Iran following last Saturday’s attack on two Saudi oil installations in Abqaiq and Khurais. The strikes, seen as the most devastating of a series of recent attacks....
A National Savings Bank (NSB) official admitted to the recruitment of 1,707 staff assistants and office assistants since 2015 of which 390 recruitments have taken place since 2017 based on name lists provided by Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera
The article titled ‘Where did Sajith Go Wrong’ by Dr. Upul Wijayawardhana in the Daily Mirror a couple of days ago was interesting enough, but it would have been more readable, if he stuck to facts rather than to fiction and to his own assumption
By about the end of the second year of the Yahapalana regime those voted for a change hung their heads in shame. They had already started thinking whether they had done the right thing. The much promised Executive Presidency wasn’t abolished and th
Further confusion added to the internecine feud of the United National Party (UNP) over presidential candidacy after its civil society allies floated the idea of fielding Speaker Karu Jayasuriya as the presidential candidate this week- that is in pla
Colombo Fort Magistrate Ranga Dissanayake has issued an interim order preventing protesting disabled soldiers from entering the Lotus Road and being anywhere close to the President’s and Prime Minister’s office.
Tucked away on Page 4 of the September 11 Daily Mirror is an alarming if not shocking news item quoting Lanka Private Bus Owners Association (LPBOA) President Gemunu Wijeratne as saying that some 50 per cent of private bus drivers and conductors coun
Rebellion is very much part of our time, of one sort or another, for one reason or another. But it is certainly a cause for alarm to see those holding top positions in the Grand Old Party – once the most disciplined of all – disobeying rules, flo
As party infighting continues to dominate the political landscape, voters are still left guessing as to the nature of programmes the main contenders in the forthcoming presidential election hope to introduce if they win. This is with only a couple of
It is not every day that you hear some sense being talked by those who wear saffron robe; to the contrary what we are used to hearing from them is absolute nonsense and worse still, verbal material that incense already raging fires. In such a backdro
While the fireworks were illuminating and banging the Colombo’s skies during the celebrations for official opening of the 350-metre high Lotus Tower, the tallest structure in South Asia, President Maithripala Sirisena dropped a bombshell by reveali
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