As Ramindu Perera has observed in a recent nuanced piece, the JVP’s response to India has always been historically conditioned, in much the same way that the UNP’s or the SLPP’s has been. Nevertheless ...
Since of late Sr Lankan Presidential Elections have become a battle ground with the number of candidates progressively growing. Last Presidential Election held on 16 th Nov 2019 fielded36 contestants ...
The question arises as to what reasons people may give for their choice of voting in any one of the main Presidential Candidates who have spent their entire political lifetime in the UNP/SJB and SLPP ...
Re-orienting the Sri Lankan economy toward the BRICS that is challenging the ‘exorbitant privileged’ of the US dollar as global reserve currency would be one such step. The US dollar has been long ...
In a few days’ time Sri Lankan people would have elected their most uncertain President. Through the prevailing socio-economic instabilities, Sajith Premadasa, Ranil Wickremesinghe or Anura Kumara ...
What honour now to have His Holiness the Pope taking my path in advising the voters and going further than I did in explicitly naming candidates and identifying the evil associated with them. There is ...
That is the percentage, 56%, that constitutes the female component of the total voting population in Sri Lanka as at elections time in 2024. Grandmothers, mothers, wives, sisters and aunts make up ...
Without support from the voters, he became president in 2022 because of his luck. He wants to stay in power, but his leadership is questioned by many, given his performance, particularly over the last ...
When you’re involved in an auto vehicle accident, you might suffer common injuries like whiplash, bone fractures, concussions, spinal cord damage, and soft tissue injuries. Whiplash results from rapid ...
Which election is going to be first? Presidential or parliamentary? If it is going to be parliamentary, the President will have to dissolve parliament soon. Otherwise, the Presidential election will ...
Local Tamil leadership doesn’t trust a single Sinhalese political leader. At every juncture and every decisive moment of our history, when their rights and privileges were on line, Tamil leadership ...
The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka in a letter to the Attorney-General, urges take steps to prosecute police officers found guilty by the Supreme Court to be responsible for acts of torture. The ...