SL’s judiciary & Yahapalanaya contradictions

May 18 (SL) There is an urgent need for the Govt to end the current political impasse, and consequent administrative inaction, if the nation has to move, and move fast from the past that it wants to leave behind. There is only one way to get going in the present juncture and environment, and that is going to the people, asap. When the voter wanted President Rajapaksa out, he wanted all vestiges of the war era and in all walks of political and administrative life to change for good. more..		Arjuna pads up to rid corruption May 18 (NS) Arjuna Ranatunga is the Minister for Ports and Shipping in the Maithripala Sirisena administration. However, he is a renowned cricket star who pioneered Sri Lanka Cricket team to win the World Cup in 1996. Ranatunga said that the previous govt led by Mahinda Rajapaksa had allowed his followers to be corrupt. “As the Top was corrupt, the whole system became corrupt,” he said while stressing that more..
SL’s judiciary & Yahapalanaya contradictions May 18 (ST) If the issue was not so serious, the more mischievous-minded among us would surely chuckle at the decidedly awkward predicament that the govt has got itself into, on the cusp of a general election no less. Ambitious proclamations that the independence of the SL judiciary has been fully secured, coming hot on the heels of the executive designating a Chief Justice as if he had never been,are now being exposed as simplistic if not dangerously naïve. mor