There are three things that matter when it comes to air travel. Punctuality, baggage not being lost and inflight comfort.
“Ambitious revenue-based fiscal consolidation is necessary for restoring fiscal and debt sustainability while protecting the poor and vulnerable. In this regard, the momentum of ongoing progressive tax reforms should be maintained, and social safety nets should be strengthened and better targeted to the poor.” From the statement made by Ms. Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director, IMF after Executive Directors approved EFF assistance to Sri Lanka on 20 March 2023.
Eran Wickramaratne has made an accusation against the former president Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa in an article on Daily FT (24 April 2023).
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane”
– Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Raghuram Rajan became famous for predicting the 2007-08 crisis and its causes two years earlier. He warned of a looming “catastrophic meltdown” in financial markets thanks to “housing prices that are at elevated levels around the globe.
SLPP MP Prof. Ranjith Bandara says their next leader will be announced after oil anointing takes place for the Sinhala-Tamil New Year. Mahinda is the leader for the time being. He is not a fellow who gives up positions even in the face of death.
On April 09, Ratey Raala proposed a modified programme for the country through his article “Two proposals to Ranil.”
Ratey Raala has been supporting a non-party president role for Ranil and an all-party government as a solution to the country’s crisis.
Yet another chapter of the opposition’s role is coming to a close with the betrayal of the Galle Face struggle. For the opposition, its period of boom is now ending to be taken over by a period of dip.
Gotabaya Rajapaksa often wonders why Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the Archbishop of Colombo suddenly started speaking against him with such wicked innuendo.
