by Vijaya Chandrasoma As was widely expected, President Joe Biden made the announcement, on April 25, 2023, of his intention to run for re-election for a...
Dr Nihal Jayawickrama The Minister of Justice has published an Anti-Corruption Bill. Drafted in 2018, it is described as a Bill to give effect to the...
By Uditha Devapriya Sri Lanka’s foreign policy has almost always been determined, if not overdetermined, by domestic considerations. In this the country differs little, if at...
Jatal Mannapperuma, Ph.D. Kandy, Sri Lanka jatalm@live.com In the rankings of global child malnutrition that Sri Lanka is placed sixth globally and second in South Asia...
By Sanjeewa Jayaweera The recent pronouncement by President Ranil Wickremesinghe (RW), that “The government has no business to be in business.” was music to the ears...
by Hugh Karunanayake Much has been written about the visit of Prince Alfred, the second son of Queen Victoria, the reigning monarch of the far flung...
Sri Lanka’s crisis is the outcome of unsustainable policies, that pandered to the unrealistic expectations of an entitled citizenry, rich and poor alike. Anila Dias Bandaranaike,...
UNDP Resident Representative in Sri Lanka, Azusa Kubota observes that there is a gap between the country’s public finance and achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)....
Excerpted from the authorized biography of Thilo W Hoffmann by Douglas B. Ranasinghe In his field work for Baurs Thilo had to travel the length and...
In my column last Sunday I wrote admiringly of the three leaders of Britain, Scotland and Ireland – all of Indian and Pakistani descent. A group...