When now President Ranil Wickremesinghe was made prime minister by then President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the country was presented with a candidly accurate picture of the economic...
Saturday 8th October, 2022 The police are reported to have stepped up checks at the parliament complex to prevent workers from smuggling in narcotics and pilfering...
Friday 7th October, 2022 Sanity has prevailed; the parliamentary debate on the 22nd Amendment (22-A) to the Constitution Bill has been postponed. The government seems to...
Thursday 6th Octber, 2022 An ugly incident has been reported from the picturesque Peradeniya University, where, one may say with apologies to Bishop Heber, ‘every prospect...
Wednesday 5th October, 2022 The Rajapaksa-Wickremesinghe government has proved once again that probity is anathema to it. Its leaders have engineered the exclusion of dissident SLPP...
Tuesday 4th October, 2022 Piteous appeals of the victims of last week’s fire that destroyed more than 80 shanties at Thotalanga are still heard. The government...
Monday 3rd October, 2022 Political leaders in this country seldom look before they leap; they do it the other way around, reminding us of the proverbial...
A recent news report that a student had brought “coconut kernel” to school for lunch some days ago acquired so much currency in both mainstream and...
Saturday 1st October, 2022 The much-advertised National Council (NC) has had its inaugural meeting, which was nothing much to write home about, so to speak. Those...
We are not short of conspiracy theorists who see more devils than vast hell can hold. They would have us believe that the whole world is...