Friday, 30th January 2015 By S.W.R. de A. Samarasinghe and Tissa Jayatilaka The presidential election results of 8 January suggest that a significant segment of our electorate concurred with the assertion o ...
Daily Archives: February 1, 2015
‘Goodbye to first-ever Lady CJ of Sri Lanka’: BASL President
Friday, 30th January 2015 Attorney-at-Law and rebellious head of Sri Lanka’s unofficial Bar, Upul Jayasuriya, calls on Shirani Bandaranayake to accept responsibility for the introduction of the 18th Amendment, sal ...
Shirani’s swansong
Friday, 30th January 2015 CJ 43 says her fight was battle for judicial independence, integrity On her final day on the bench of the Supreme Court, 24 hours after her reinstatement as lawful Chief Justice of Sri ...
People’s budget
Friday, 30th January 2015 As expected, the budget of President Maithripala Sirisena's coalition party, the New Democratic Front (NDF), mainly comprising Sri Lanka's two principal political parties, the UNP and the ...
Sri Lanka Is Ready to Take Centre Stage
Friday, 30th January 2015 Sri Lanka has rarely, if ever, topped any US foreign-policy agenda. But after the surprising outcome of its Presidential Election earlier this month, it should get higher billing. In a st ...
Good governance calls for gap between offices
Friday, 30th January 2015 By Lucien Rajakarunanayake Reducing the term of the Executive Presidency was not a matter discussed as widely as other constitutional changes proposed by the common Opposition campaign. However ...