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Sri Lanka’s upcoming local government polls will definitely be held on March 09 despite alleged government machinations to delay it and parliament, too, will have to be dissolved to reflect the new mandate, MP G L Peiris said.
By Gamini Weerakoon DoublespeakView(s): Wishing you ‘A Very Wishful New Year’ was our greeting to all Sri Lankans for 2020. There was a very good reason for it because 2019 was an extremely ‘Promising Year’, with Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Sajith Premadasa trying to outbid each other with promises to people that would have truly made their life in Lanka a Heaven on Earth. The knowledgeable masses truly believed in the promises made and supporters of both candidates went into ecstasies and finally to the polls in their thousands. We as observers of the passing scene could only wish the p...
2021: Wishing you a Miracle Year Sri Lanka Guardian 11:03 PM To every unanswerable question, there is always a stupid answer and the latest we have heard is that the Covid 19 is mutating and the new miracle vaccines may not work against it. That is why Sri Lankans in their wisdom have not yet decided on the issue, is the reply. by Gamini Weerakoon Wishing you ‘A Very Wishful New Year’ was our greeting to all Sri Lankans for 2020. There was a very good reason for it because 2019 was an extremely ‘Promising Year’, with Gotabaya Rajapaksa and Sajith Premadasa trying to outbid each oth...
What a great nation we are! We have a Cabinet Minister – the one in charge of health – offering to sacrifice herself to the sea, to save this country from the Covid pandemic. Shouldn’t we feel safe? Is she in fact offering to make this self-sacrifice to atone for the overall failure of the government, with the power of 20A too, to control this virus spread? Let’s keep that for its 145 plus members to decide. Does this Pavithra from Sabaragamuwa, with an Aratchi heritage from the Vanniya, have hopes of being our next Vihara Maha Devi? Does she know that the daughter of King Kelanitiss...