Disposal of the city garbage has now reached national crisis proportions.

On perceiving a serious crack in the yahapalanaya looming on the horizon, several Diyawanna stalwarts have already entered the race for the Prime Ministerial hat.

There is a Ministry Secretary who refuses to attend official conferences held with the Prime Minister in the chair, they say.

An interesting story about how a certain high official who wanted six months to provide piping for a water supply scheme for a drought-battered village, produced the material within 24 hours is reported from Pelmadulla.

A senior Minister well past his sixties, representing a constituency North of Colombo has openly confessed his unhappiness over the unavailability of two female members on either side of his seat in Parliament. 

A prominent minister holding a key portfolio has of late become a regular visitor to the official residence of a very high political authority, they say. 

An old boy has come forward to fund the renovation of a swimming pool of a national school in Puttalam district now in a state of disrepair. 

The JO leaders who have vowed to expose the corrupt deals of 10 top team members in yahapalanaya are in the process of collecting incriminating documentary evidence against them.

The fair governor of the Central province was the chief guest at a ceremony held at a leading girls’ college in Kandy to mark World Children’s Day. 

Two JO members from the Gem-city are out to lock horns with John the Silent from the same district. 

Employees at the Colombo port are said to be up in arms against a move by the authorities to recruit trainees for a certain staff category on the results of an exam held by an unauthorized institution.

A new face to politics is due to succeed Muza as the Green party candidate for the main chair of the city council.

A certain politico who is said to have called at Temple Trees carrying all his personal effects tuck in a ‘sili-sili’ bag at the time the former strongman was busy forming a government, has become a multi-billionaire today.

Some sixty monitoring Diyawanna members were granted a monthly travelling allowance of Rs.200,000 subject to the condition they were not already using an official vehicle provided by a Ministry.

A former navy chief the other day received a message from the ‘palace’ asking him to call on the Big Boss without delay. 

An opposition Diyawanna member had recently made representations to a top white-collar one at the august assembly on behalf of a group of employees who over the years had been deprived of salary increments and promotions. 

There is a general impression among the ordinary people in the country that it is a great fortune to be elected an MP given the numerous perks and privileges they are entitled to. So a Sinhala saying that has gained wide currency in recent times says

An uncommonly sweet perfume that a certain fair member of the top team in yahapalanaya wears attracts Diyawanna members to her like bees to nectar, they say.

An unusual incident where the guest of honour had to walk out to enable starting a stalled session of a workshop held exclusively for a select group of women participants, has been reported from a gem-rich area in the country. 

This politico is a top team member in yahapalanaya. He is said to have become a regular visitor to the residence of a comely lady who is no longer in active politics due to her defeat at the polls.

A purohita from the South recently set out on a visit to Rajarata on official business well ahead of the crack of dawn. 

A rumour doing the rounds in political circles says that a senior member of the yahapalanaya top team had visited a temple in Narahenpita for the specific purpose of delivering a secret missive from the ‘palace’.

The chief purohita who arranged for a group of councilors to enjoy a holiday in Russia at public expense after pulling the wool over the eyes of the Big Boss and the governing one got a dressing-down from the ‘palace’ recently. 

Lady Luck is about to smile on four Diyawanna members currently occupying the backbenches in the opposition, they say.

The Green party has identified several members of its Diyawanna group as ‘double dealers’ and the party’s whip is about to come down on them, they say.

Posters advertising the much-talked about JO’s October 8 rally in Ratnapura had come up all over the district by the latter part of the last week.

The head of a certain state-run establishment who happens to be the brother-in-law of a leading member of the top team in yahapalanaya, has become a ‘veritable terror’ to the female employees of the establishment.

This lady holding a very high office in a provincial body exercising decentralized power is often invited to numerous ceremonies, official functions as well as social events held in high-end hotels. And she has made it a practice to attend such event

Some structural parts of a section of this building complex housing a Ministry related to sea activity were demolished some time ago to make way for building a set of new cubicles under a restructuring plan.

When the JO firebrand from Nawalapitiya was arrested for the first time, a group of top team members had called on his family on a comforting mission, on a request from the ‘palace’.