Nobody talks any more about the local government elections the president aborted earlier this year. It is as clear as clear can be why RW resorted...
Saturday 20th May, 2023 Private bus operators are in a perpetual state of agitation, and behave as if they were above the law. In fact, their...
Friday 19th May, 2023 The Committee of Public Enterprises (COPE) has striven over the years to meet the people’s expectations as a parliamentary watchdog outfit. Together...
Thursday 18th May, 2023 Sanity seems to have prevailed at long last. President Ranil Wickremesinghe and a delegation of university teachers are scheduled to meet today,...
Wednesday 17th May, 2023 The worst that can happen to a democracy is for its serving generals to savour political power, which is as addictive as...
Tuesday 16th May, 2023 The Rajapaksa-Wickremesinghe government keeps postponing elections for fear of facing a humiliating mid-term electoral setback. The UNP is floating a rumour that...
Monday 15th May, 2023 Colombo looked like a garrison town over the weekend with a heavy military and police presence. The government had received an intelligence...
Except for perhaps some 6,000 plus Nestle Lanka minority shareholders and stock market participants including retailers, many of them pensioners with time on their hands and...
Saturday 13th May, 2023 A robust judiciary is the only hope a nation is left with, in situations where other branches of government become dysfunctional or...
Friday 12th May, 2023 There is hardly anything that the ruling party politicians and their cronies hate more than last year’s anti-government protests, which brought them...