Friday 22nd July, 2022 Ranil Wickremesinghe was sworn in as the President yesterday. Amidst a host of paeans to him, we believe that a word about...
Thursday 21st July, 2022 President Ranil Wickremesinghe is in seventh heaven. Everybody wrote him off when he lost the last general election (2020), having contested two...
Wednesday 20th July, 2022 Parliament will elect a new President today. The contest is actually between two candidates, Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe and SLPP MP Dullas Alahapperuma....
Tuesday 19th July, 2022 A couple of ships have arrived, carrying much-needed fuel, and the distribution of cooking gas has also resumed, after a lapse of...
Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s fidelity to his alma mater, Royal College, is very well known. He has long been accused of cronyism concerning his batch mates...
Saturday 16th July, 2022 The ordinary people must have thought they would benefit from the Galle Face Aragalaya and threw their weight behind the protesting youth....
Friday 15th July, 2022 What is unfolding on the political front is baffling and unprecedented, and even legal experts have been left rereading the Constitution and...
Thursday 14th July, 2022 Protests are intensifying despite President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s exit. They forced themselves into the Prime Minister’s Office, and a state-owned television station, yesterday....
Wednesday 13th July, 2022 Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s presidency became a huge problem, and his resignation is also likely to be problematic, for it has led to a...
Tuesday 12th July, 2022 Sri Lanka found itself on the verge of a bloodbath on 09 May in the aftermath of a savage goon attack the...