What is the Future of the UNP post-2020?
Losing another election will not mean anything much to Ranil Wickremasinghe UNP’s leader since 1994, but the thought of departing from politics branded as a traitor to the Nation is nothing any UNP...
Don’t sell my Mother: Are Portuguese-Dutch-British being replaced by India-China-US?
Have we learnt lessons? Don Juan Dharmapala not only baptized himself but even gifted Lanka to the Portuguese. Rajasinghe II learnt a bitter lesson when he thought the Dutch was better than the Portuguese...
MCC – English ONLY is OK – Sinhala/Tamil is Not OK – where are the Hooles & the Howlers?
Section 4.1 of MCC says all documents & communications are to be in English.Section 6.4 of MCC says the Government Law is to be ‘international law’(not Sri Lankan laws). The Ministry of Finance...
Sri Lanka’s Choice: Deed E-Land Register or MCC/Bim Saviya E-Land Register?
The main argument to support the MCC Land Project is that technology will put an end to land problems & Sri Lanka will be on par with countries using advanced technologies. These countries are...
General Elections Sri Lanka: What is India now up to with the Tamils?
“Opportunity for Sri Lankan Tamils to revisit their priorities”by N S Venkataraman certainly raises the question, if India is rolling out a new modus operandi, towards Tamils & Sri Lanka. If that...
Sri Lanka has already prepared the E-Land Register – We do not need MCC $67m Land Project
Sri Lanka has almost completed the E-Land Register.Do we need MCC funds with demands that require constitutional changes?This supposed ‘gift’ comes with a set of conditions & pre-conditions that even warrants the MCC...
GoSL must not make the same mistake with MCC as done with Indo-Lanka Accord & 13a
On 29 July 1987 India forced Sri Lanka to sign what became known as the Indo-Lanka Peace Accord that led to the deployment of Indian Peace Keepers. Part of that Accord also...
Colombo East Terminal – why Sri Lanka can never trust India
There is much controversy over East Terminal of Colombo Port with India & Japan claiming that a Memorandum of Cooperation signed in May 2019 with the previous Government, binds the present government from giving...
New Birth Certificate: A Betrayal of the Sinhala Buddhists
The media has announced changes to Sri Lanka’s birth certificate. All births were to be registered as Sri Lankan sans mention of ethnicity or religion. Who took this decision? Have policy makers stopped to...
Yahapalana, USAID & DAI – Democratic Governance & Accountability Scorecard!
Regime Change in 2015 was quick to roll out plenty of good governance initiatives. One such was the $13.7m Strengthening Democratic Governance & Accountability Project (SDGAP) to reform Sri Lanka’s public sector. USAID...
