For my part, I would argue that The Forum’s “official” stance is much like when Walter Cronkite came out against the Vietnam War on national TV. While it is most welcome, it is also too little, and too late.
Regardless of MR’s call to suspend divestiture drive: By Saman Indrajith The government parliamentary group yesterday voted for the Electricity Amendment Bill in spite of SLPP leader Mahinda Rajapaksa’s opposition to the ongoing privatisation and restructuring programmes. The Bill was passed in Parliament yesterday with amendments. As no division was called at the end of […]
Prez opens campaign office: Dissident SLPP MP Nimal Lanza attended yesterday’s opening of President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s political operations centre at Sir Ernest de Silva Mawatha. SLFP Chairman Nimal Siripala de Silva, too, attended the event amidst the ongoing battle between two factions for the control of the party. MEP leader and Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena […]
By Saman Indrajith Power and Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekara told Parliament yesterday that there would be a power tariff reduction from July 1. The Minister moving the Electricity Amendment Bill for the second reading debate said that the CEB would submit its proposal for electricity tariff revision to the Public Utilities Commission of Sri Lanka […]
Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena yesterday announced that the Supreme Court had informed him that several more petitions had been filed before the court against the Economic Transformation Bill and Public Financial Management Bill. He said that by yesterday morning there were two petitions against the Public Financial Management Bill and 17 petitions against the Economic […]
Granting Presidential pardon to convicted murderer of Swedish-Lankan girl By Shamindra Ferdinando The Supreme Court has directed Attorney General Sanjay Rajaratnam, PC, to take tangible measures to secure the custody of convicted killer Don Shramantha Jude Anthony Jayamaha, who was granted a presidential pardon on Nov 09, 2019 by the then President Maithripala Sirisena during […]
Friday 7th June, 2024 The SLPP-UNP government is going hell for leather to make bad laws as if there were no tomorrow. It is abusing its parliamentary majority, which has been retained with the help of some crossovers, for that purpose. The Opposition, the media and trade unions are up in arms, and understandably so. […]
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