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  • May- 2022 -
    30 May

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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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  • 1 May

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    ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! When the brave people of Sri Lanka took to the streets in peaceful protests in and around the commercial capital, despite the imposition of a curfew in…

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  • Mar- 2022 -
    27 March

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    STATE OF PARALYSIS A power crisis that has left the nation in the dark for hours on end, a currency that lost more than a third of its value in…

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  • Feb- 2022 -
    28 February

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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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  • Jan- 2022 -
    31 January

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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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  • Dec- 2021 -
    31 December

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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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  • Nov- 2021 -
    26 November

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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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  • Oct- 2021 -
    22 October

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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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  • Sep- 2021 -
    24 September

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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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  • Aug- 2021 -
    26 August

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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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