COLOMBO (Reuters) - A leader from Sri Lanka's ruling coalition said on Monday that three members of the alliance had proposed forming an interim gover.
Can Rescue & Thrive project attract public attention? By Shamindra Ferdinando President Gotabaya Rajapaksa referred to lawmaker Patali Champika Ranawaka’s public statements, during a recent private meeting with some of his supporters. The President queried whether the former minister’s declarations shouldn’t be examined, taking into consideration his record as a minister (continuously from Feb 2007 […]
By Dr. Jayampathy Wickramaratne, President’s Counsel There is broad agreement today, at least in the Opposition, that the Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution that did away with most of the provisions introduced by the Nineteenth Amendment (19A) must be abolished. The writer is of the view that going back to 19A is not sufficient and […]
By Shamindra Ferdinando Prof. Nalin de Silva has questioned the absence of a ‘mechanism’ to implement President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s strategies. The academic, in his regular piece in Sinhala posted online on Feb 5 discussed the limitations against the backdrop of President Rajapaksa’s address to the nation on Independence Day. In another commentary, posted online the […]