Month: January 2026
Bouquets outnumber brickbats in AKD’s performance
By Col R Hariharan The year 2025 will be remembered in Sri Lanka for Cyclone Ditwah, which struck the Sri Lanka coast towards the...
Why Venezuela matters to the Global South
By J. Abeywickrema Who rules when rules disappear? A single man and a small circle of his closest aides, unknown even to the...
Deferred accountability and elevated expediency
In the annals of governance, few practices are as corrosive as the predilection to manufacture crises, then feign investigation when they explode in...
The politics of innocence
By Vox Civis Even as another year dawns and families across Sri Lanka ready their children for a new school term complete with...
RTI Commission controlled by Treasury?
The Right to Information (RTI) Commission stated that although the RTI Act, No. 12 of 2016, provides it with a degree of independence...
Sri Lanka’s y-o-y tourism earnings decline in Nov. ‘25
Sri Lanka’s tourism earnings saw a 8.1% decline in earnings in year-on-year terms in the month of November, posting $ 251.6 million in...
Unresolved grievances don’t disappear with time
By Dr. Jehan Perera The Government is rebuilding the cyclone-devastated lives, livelihoods and infrastructure in the country after the immense destruction caused by...
PSC to decide on electoral system for PC polls
The government is to move a resolution in parliament when the House reconvenes next week to appoint a parliamentary select committee (PSC) to...
Kataragama Devalaya to sell gold to ‘Rebuild Sri Lanka’
The Basnayake Nilame of the Ruhunu Maha Kataragama Devalaya has reportedly decided to auction around 70 per cent of the gold items that...
Government yet to decide on the land plot size for resettlement
A uniform extent of land to be allocated for settlement, even in cases where the affected families previously owned much larger plots. The...
