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Mon, 28 Oct 2024 Today's Paper
Three years after the last Presidential Election the political balance of power in the country has changed diametrically with the loyalists of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the anti-Rajapaksa camp swapping positions.
It is good journalism when the media become the voice of the voiceless, the watchdog and the fifth estate. Often shoddy journalism is referred to as bad journalism.
I wish to honestly thank the people of this country who elected me with a clear majority on the basis of our election manifesto and the principles laid before the people,
A crisis ridden Sri Lanka began March on a positive note with the high-powered Office of Missing Persons (OMP) starting work after President Maithripala Sirisena gave the letters of appointment on Wednesday to the chairman and seven OMP commissioners
Law and Order. This seems to be the one thing that the yahapalana government has cottoned onto in the aftermath of the election rout. And I don’t mean that in a good way.
Most of us have a tendency if not a temptation to prefer what is easy and comfortable. Opting for plastics is one of these dangers. We need to become aware of the catastrophic effects of plastic and the throw-away culture whereby we just discard pl
The routine discussion of papers went on as usual during the first half of Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting, the first time after the reshuffle on Sunday. But the second half, meant for the discussion of currently important matters, turned out to be
The Election Results should have wiped the complacency off their faces, but it seems that lessons are never learned. At a Press Conference on Friday, Feb 16 evening, our illustrious Prime Minister said he would not resign but continue to function acc
Religious, political and other leaders who met at the Ampara District Secretariat yesterday demanded that tough action be taken against those involved in the communal and religious tension that erupted in this eastern town on Monday night, with attac
With the election result, the Yahapalana coalition Government is like a predator with a poison arrow embedded in its flesh, which has lurched into a quagmire. The end may be a long-drawn and painful process lasting 500 days, but it will neither exit
Sri Lanka has many firsts to its credit, not all are plus points though. It seems to be a world’s first that an attempt was made to oust a Prime Minister, also from his leadership of the UNP on the results of a Local Government Elections.
Southerners uplifted the 44%(+) Man‘s non – governance’ regime and lowered the ‘no governance’ peg fixed on the Colombo Lad’s 32% (+) vote, taught a lesson to a fiddling government; restoring the status quo to its
Even Cabinet ministers, leave alone ordinary government supporters will be unable to explain Sunday’s Cabinet. Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa seems to have viewed it from a common man’s perspective when he described it to journalists
The latest Cabinet reshuffle was a disappointment. Even some UNP parliamentarians have gone on record calling it a ‘joke’, others mutter the same in private. If anything at all, this is another proof of how indecisive President Maithripal
Colombo, February 26: Good international relations are founded on political and economic stability in the countries concerned. If there is policy confusion and policy paralysis in a country, foreign investors’ interest in it tends to wane. And
A woman’s role in Sri Lankan politics is yet to be cemented despite all the assurances given that female representation would be increased in Local Government (LG) bodies.
After about two weeks of a political melodrama - filled with tension and turmoil or even elements from a detective fiction novel - the drama came to a climax yesterday with...
Insertion of 6:- A new Article 33[a] in the Constitution says, ‘The following Article is hereby inserted immediately after Article 33, and shall have....
It’s been an odd couple of months for southern Africa. No one predicted last year that in almost the same breath the long-serving dictator of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, and the super-corrupt president of South Africa, Jacob Zuma, would be soon ov
Local Government Elections were held. The results baffled many a political activist; especially those who were backing the coalition Government consisting of the United National Party (UNP) and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP). The most surprising elem
The legendary leader Nelson Mandela has said there can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children. Statesman Frederick Douglass has emphasised it is easier to build strong children than to repair br
The riveting CNN Town Hall meeting special this week on the High School Massacre in Florida has so much to teach Sri Lankan elected, business and civic leaders, students, teenagers, educators and parents to act TODAY to bring about the changes that w
The Government and the Opposition wasted a whole fortnight just for their power struggle leaving many Government institutions at a standstill following the February 10 Local Government Elections.
After more than ten days of panic, tension and ill-educated guesswork, Speaker Karu Jayasuriya declared in Parliament yesterday that the National Government would continue despite the huge protest vote against it at the Local Council elections on Feb
Sri Lanka’s political crisis following the February 10 local polls election setback for the ruling coalition has brought to surface the vagaries of political cohabitation peculiar to the presidential cum parliamentary governments or hybrid gove
A few days ago I was asked: “What are the biggest takeaways from Sri Lanka’s recent Local Government Elections?”
A bud is a metaphor and it is one that has naturally led to overuse because the nelum pohottuwa is the party symbol of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP). ‘The bud will bloom,’ they said with as much conviction as the rhetoricians o
The local government elections of February 10 are over. The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) led by former president Mahinda Rajapaksa won while the parties in the government lost.
In response to the clarion call by the late Ven. Maduluwawe Sobitha Thera, the nation safeguarded Democracy, in Sri Lanka in January in 2015. Remarkably UNP Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, pledged his support to the common presidential candidate
Things looked settled for the national unity government between the United National Party (UNP) and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) when President Maithripala Sirisena asked his Ministers not to leave it at this hour. Tension is still simme
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