As reported earlier today, the United States has pledged $17 million to modernise digital operations at the Port of Colombo. In a subsequent statement, US Ambassador Eric Meyer outlined the commercial rationale
by Our Correspondent in Colombo Sri Lanka is bracing for severe flooding and further devastation as intense rainfall, rising river levels and powerful winds triggered by Cyclonic Storm “Ditwah” continue to batter
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Editorial Cyclone Ditwah has only just formed, and Sri Lanka is already reeling—yet the truth is blunt and terrifying: the worst is still ahead. Ditwah is no longer just a developing storm
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Updated Story 2: The Disaster Management Center (DMC) reports that the death toll from the severe weather gripping the country has risen to 47, with 37 of
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Ambassador Julie Chung joined Peace Corps Sri Lanka Country Director Jeffrey Goveia in Vavuniya today to administer the Pledge of Service to twenty-three new Peace Corps Volunteers. Nimali Baduraliya, Director of English
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Editorial The audio clip released on social media proves beyond doubt that a key minister of this government was directly involved in the alleged illegal release of goods from the port. In
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo Prime Minister and Minister of Education Harini Amarasuriya triggered intense political shockwaves today after declaring in Parliament that there “was never a demand” to allocate 6% of
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Editor’s Note: This article is adapted from remarks delivered by Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, former Speaker of the Sri Lankan Parliament, during the launch of a new book. It presents his personal recollections
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“We are members of the Rajapaksa Nikaya. (We) are robed in the Rajapaksa Nikya, members of the Rajapaksa caste.” ~ Ampitiye Sumanaratana “He who has control over his hands, feet, and tongue,
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When Mrs Bandaranaike’s left-wing government swept into power with a two-thirds majority in 1970, it inherited a business landscape dominated by the UNP. Previous attempts at nationalisation by S. W. R. D.
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“Nothing is sacred anymore,” Prof. Nelum Deepika Udagama remarks at one point during this conversation, reflecting on the way education, law, and public institutions have been pulled into the logic of the
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Comrade Rohana Wijeweera, the founder of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), was arrested and subsequently murdered 36 years ago on November 13. His disappearance in 1989 symbolised the turbulent end of the
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Rural development is the single most powerful lever for inclusive growth in countries where a large share of the population lives outside cities. For Sri Lanka—where a significant portion of people depend
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by Luxman Aravind President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s hush-hush address to Parliament, delivered after his subordinates literally lost their footing in the chaos of the Trincomalee debacle, revealed a leader floundering behind closed doors while pretending to command the
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Close on the heels of the first-ever joint tactical counter-terrorist exercise ‘Wolverine Path 2025,’ involving Russian and Sri Lankan troops, at the Army Training School, in Maduru Oya (25 Oct to 4
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When President Ranasinghe Premadasa first carried out a Cabinet reshuffle in 1990, he never imagined that it would mark the beginning of his downfall. In that reshuffle, he appointed Lalith Athulathmudali, who
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