President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, addressing a group of officers who passed out at the Sri Lanka Military Academy, Diyatalawa, over the weekend, waxed eloquent on discipline, which...
Monday 20th December, 2021 Head of the Public Health Inspectors’ union, Upul Rohana, has flayed some Health Ministry panjandrums for lowering their guard although the daily...
Governments not infrequently prorogue parliament when they are in trouble. Perhaps the best example of that in Sri Lanka’s contemporary history was President Premadasa’s prorogation of...
Saturday 18th December, 2021 Unpopular regimes do not fear anything more than elections. The yahapalana government was so scared of elections that it amended the Provincial...
Friday 17th December, 2021 Restrictions currently in place to prevent Covid-19 will not be ramped up in view of the upcoming festive season, Director General of...
Thursday 16th December, 2021 The government has got telling lies down to a fine art. A few weeks ago, it declared that it would not pay...
Wednesday 15th December, 2021 A few days after the conclusion of US President Joe Biden’s virtual ‘Summit for Democracy’, where many leaders waxed eloquent on the...
Tuesday 14th December, 2021 Gas explosions continue. Yesterday, a young woman suffered serious injury in Kuruwita when she jumped off the upper floor of her house...
Monday 13th December, 2021 Speculation is rife in political circles that the government will decide today whether to seek assistance from the International Monetary Fund (IMF)...
The gas explosions continue unabated with the promise investigation/inquiry report not out as this is being written. The Chinese ship carrying suspect organic fertilizer has ultimately...