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STOP CORRUPTION As we watch a nation in the throes of a history making transition where zero tolerance of corruption is in sight,
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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! When the brave people of Sri Lanka took to the streets in…
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STATE OF PARALYSIS A power crisis that has left the nation in the dark for…
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BITTER PILLS Sri Lankans are being forced to swallow their pride and more than a handful of bitter pills, such is the continually shameless
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JET-SETTING POWERS When the mainstream media reported that some 60 MPs were vacationing overseas during the festive season
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YEAR OF HOPE As another new year dawns on a world that has been ravaged by a nearly two years long pandemic, our hopes must
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REALITY CHECK It ain’t over yet, folks. As the PHIs have warned, if the public fails to follow the protocols stipulated by the authorities
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BAFFLED BY NUMBERS Hot on the heels of the finance minister presenting his government’s Appropriation Bill for 2022 in parliament on 6 October came
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IT’S THE ECONOMY, STUPID “During my almost two-year stint at the helm of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, I have come to realise
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT As the nation observes a lockdown until at least 30 August, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s address to the citizenry
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BALANCING ACT Responding to questions during a Central Bank of Sri Lanka webinar titled ‘State of the Economy, Challenges and Outlook...
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WHAT A WORLD! The fact that COVID-19 will not disappear into thin air until the world as a whole reaches herd immunity seems not to
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THE VIGIL Sri Lanka’s 4/21 was commemorated by a call to observe a two minutes’…
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THE COVID ECONOMY It came as no surprise when the Department of Census and Statistics…
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STATE OF MIND “Faced with new realities of working from home, temporary unemployment, home schooling…
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A NATION ON EDGE The stock market reached for the skies, business confidence fast tracked…
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MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE It is a common courtesy to wish everyone a ‘happy new year’ – indeed, ‘happiness’ must be at the top of our wish lists as we welcome the dawn of 2021 and say goodbye to a year that humankind would rather forget about.
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BUDGET BOMBSHELL The wide-ranging and highly ambitious budget proposals presented by the prime minister to parliament on 17 November – in which national security, road and tech development, healthcare and measures to reduce poverty took centre stage
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BUDGET 2021 The fiscal goalposts have shifted considerably in the wake of the ever spreading Minuwangoda factory cluster
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BUDGET BLUES It isn’t unusual for a post-election budget to take away some of the sweeteners
