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By Lynn Ockersz Hunger is reaching fever-pitch, In stomachs shriveling sans Bread, But the grinny Sires in TV frames, Cajoling the queueing underclass, Calculate that waiting these folks out, With tongue-in-cheek syrupy talk, Is the best game they could play, To live and rule another day, But this amounts to fooling oneself, For, the dividing […]
by Dr Laksiri Fernando The current protests in Sri Lanka are multitude. The most influential has been the Galle Face protests, Aragalaya (Struggle), now exceeding two months. After a halfhearted governmental change, some of the participants must be staying at home or going for work, carefully watching the situation. However, it is superficial to say […]
The ongoing protest campaign in the wake of eruption of violence at Mirihana underlines the responsibility on the part of Sri Lanka to address issues – economic and political at hand. Successive governments have encouraged waste, corruption, irregularities and mismanaged the national economy. The bottom line is the current balance of payments crisis, the cumulative […]
Controversial payments made to US broker never probed By Shamindra Ferdinando Wartime Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama said that shocking revelations made in a US court as regards former Sri Lankan Ambassador Jaliya Wickramasuriya had caused irreparable damage to the reputation of SriLanka and humiliated the country. Wickramasuriya pleaded guilty recently to diverting and attempting to […]