Rotary District 3220 held a press conference on May 8, 2022 at Radisson Hotel. Rotarians at the press conference voiced out their demands for good governance. They also called upon the state, private and public sectors to be accountable

Yesterday (May 9) marked a month since the Galle Face Green transformed into a mass protest site. However, it took only a matter of hours for pro-Rajapaksa supporters to not only destroy tents that were put up in front of Temple Trees and Galle Fac

Sri Lanka’s Emergency law is flawed, being devoid of adequate protections against its misuse. It is easily invoked and lacking in adequate legislative and judicial oversight. The overwhelming power vested in the Executive has led to the law’s fre

The political messages coming from the Gogotagama (‘Go Gota Village’) at Colombo’s seafront Galle Face grounds and other protest sites are simple, yet sharp. They are unorthodox and uncompromising too. The slogans....

The tremendous power of the masses in action was displayed for the first time in post-independent Sri Lanka on August 12, 1953 when the enraged people rose in active dissent. A new factor re-entered....

Sri Lanka’s current political and economic turmoil is the the culmination of many political and economic misadventures by its political elite backed by a bureaucratic elite which had no strategic vision....

Our country is wrestling with its worst economic crisis since Independence in 1948. Presently foreign currency reserves sit at their lowest level on record due to what many see as gross economic....

The point is if our system puts indignity upon its people, and carries within its structure the possibility of violence, then the only way out of that is to acknowledge that to solve our economic crisis....

Actress turned politician Geetha Kumarasinghe grabbed media attention a few weeks ago when she spoke out strongly in support of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa.

In the face of our country’s unprecedented political and economic crisis -a result of government corruption and mismanagement- which led to the near bankrupting of the country, a majority of trade unions, agricultural workers unions and civil socie

The political impasse in the country continues with various groups except for very few suggesting various solutions keeping their individual interests in mind.

Tamil National Alliance (TNA) MP for the Jaffna district M.A. Sumanthiran, in an interview with Daily Mirror, airs his views on the present status of the economy and the political....

As protests against the regime grow louder a massive ‘hartal’ is scheduled to take place today (May 6) all over the island. The public’s dissent against....

Apparently, no country has laws to punish government leaders responsible for economic mismanagement. In Sri Lanka, government leaders’ economic incompetence has precipitated a gargantuan....

At present Sri Lanka is expecting a severe food shortage. The authorities are yet to find solutions to the upcoming food shortage and cite the dollar crisis as the reason behind not being able to find a solution to the issue.

The Galle Face Green has evolved from a mere protest site to a land that demands justice. This is evident with the various tents and their titles that dominate the space at ‘GotaGoGama’.

The Sri Lankan negotiating team led by the Minister of Finance was in Washington, discussing with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) officials regarding the role IMF could play in stabilising and restructuring the Sri Lankan economy.

The heads of the Church of Ceylon have strongly condemned police’s recent arrest of peaceful demonstrators and claimed that the conduct of the law enforcement authority is a severe violation of fundamental rights of the people.

The extraordinary protests taking place around the country today are unlike anything this country has seen before. Its participants come from all walks of life, cutting across lines of race and class, not representing any political party or group.

Whoever in his or her right mind would have ever imagined that a president elected to office by more than 6.9 million votes and vested with absolute power via the 20th Amendment to the Constitution and a government elected by more than 6.8 million vo

The war in Ukraine has been expanding since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24 this year. According to UN IOM (UM Migration) since the Russian....

It was eerie to hear the three names ‘Lasantha, Prageeth, Thajudeen’ mentioned in the same breath. I was watching a live feed....

Australia Broadcasting Corporation’s leading investigative journalism and current affairs programme, Four Corners recently released....

On Sri Lanka’s streets, fuel queues and gas shortages are the conspicuous markers of the nation’s economic duress, but in the homes....

The political impasse that was created by the ongoing unprecedented economic crisis seems to aggravate as the government has failed to convince the Opposition parties in its efforts to form an all-party interim government. On the other hand, there s

Soon after the military victory against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a nihilistic terrorist group of its right, Mahinda Rajapaksa, the t

Sri Lanka is currently bearing the fruits of financial mismanagement, lack of planning and shortsighted decision-making ever since the incumbent government was elected to power. Delays in seeking support from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), he

Dishonest politicians abused the 1978 Constitution in rampaging and ransacking a nation: On July 8, 2019, we wrote on these columns an article Sub titled, “Even two siblings would....

As month long mass protests are continuing all over the country against government’s failure to provide some of the most essentials such as fuel, cooking gas, fertiliser, and medicine and people are forced....

Sri Lanka’s multiple crises caused by a lack of foreign reserves is at the heart of the country’s huge foreign debt and the inability to purchase the imported goods that Lankans rely on, including...