SLPP’s half-witted response admission of defeat’ By Shamindra Ferdinando Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) spokesperson Mujibur Rahuman, MP…
Category: Economic Crisis
Mayhem starts in Mirihana! Where will it go? How will it end? by Rajan Philips
Thursday/Friday (March 31/April 1) 6:00 PM – Protesters gather at the Jubilee Post in their “tens…
Anarchy or An Orderly Alternative?
Dr. Ameer Ali, School of Business & Governance, Murdoch University, Western Australia The economic devastation brought…
Enough rhetoric Mr. President, time for action
At a time when the people are drastically losing faith in the Government and in President…
Protest ongoing near President’s private residence
A large group of individuals are currently staging a protest on the Pengiriwatte Road near the…
With Love from New Delhi! by Austin Fernando
Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa with Indian External Affair Minister S. Jaishankar The media has revealed the…
Misguided policy decisions, not COVID-19, led country into multiple crises: Path to recovery
An economic analyst recently stated, “Then, there was a second error made by his policy advisors.…
Who created the crisis, coming out of it, and IMF danger
The cause for Sri Lanka’s foreign exchange crisis is something that could be understood by anyone.…
‘Entrusting govt. with task of managing economy is like handing over a smartphone to a cobbler for repairs’ by Saman Indrajith
The SJB says the government is unable to steer the country in the right direction, even…
Doomed President & Presidency By Ameer Ali
When J.R. Jayewardene succeeded getting his constitution for an executive presidency passed through the Parliament in…
Address the unsustainable military expenditure
There is an old saying that ‘if your only tool is a hammer then every problem…
Tone deaf to suffering
Last week, 70-year-old Mohamed Iliyas from Kandy died after he collapsed while standing for several hours…
Misgovernment; Has The Government Lost Its Legitimacy To Rule? By Mass L. Usuf
This is the reply Google gave me to the question: “What gives the government the right…
Irony of a Racist, Corrupt Regime, Being Strangled in Its Own Yard! By Mohamed Harees –
‘To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men’-Ella Wheeler Wilcox Social…
Frustration growing in a ‘land milked of honey’
Our country’s finances are in a parlous position. The country is indebted to the tune of…
Four cardinal mistakes the president did not admit in his speech by Ranga Jayasuriya
Last week President Gotabaya Rajapaksa addressed a nation in crisis. Instead of calming the masses, a…
Foreign newspaper spills the beans: Myanmar-Sri Lanka rice deal smells of corruption
Myanmar uses 70% of chemical fertilizer during the monsoons and 100% of such fertilizer during the…
Successive governments’ budgetary operations caused financial instability By Shmaindra Ferdinando
Ex-CBSL Governor Dr. Coomaraswamy: ‘My generation has failed the country…’ Former Governor of the Central Bank…