ව්යාපාර පවරා ගැනීමේ පනත
Two newspapers, one Sinhala and one English, led on the report that the government is moving to legislate in haste an act for taking over failed private sector businesses. Not all the government’s own businesses are profitable, Ivan points out: if every business must be profitable, the government should bring all of its own to profit before it puts a hand on the private sector.
වත්කම් බැරකම් නීතිය ක්රියාත්මක කිරීම
The policy the elections commissioner followed on the assets and liabilities law at the last provincial council election was excellent. What would have been better still was an order that every candidate file a declaration with the nomination papers — and to get round the defect of not doing so he required all the winners to file by 15 October and the defeated candidates by 30 October.
සාධාරණ බව පෙනෙන්නටද තිබිය යුතුය
The investigation into the tragedy arising from the clash between the member Duminda Silva and the president’s trade union adviser Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra is a criminal investigation that puts the working of the law in Sri Lanka to the test. In a criminal case the working of the law begins with the police investigation.
විකෘති වී තිබෙන දේශපාලන සංස්කෘතිය ප්රකෘති කිරීමේ අවශ්යතාව
Until the Kolonnawa tragedy on polling day, the political society saw the problems to be settled after the war as the visible ones — the disappeared, the displaced, the destroyed houses and infrastructure. What made them see that the great distortions the war worked on social life are a large problem too was what happened between Bharatha Lakshman and Duminda at Kolonnawa.
අපරාධකරණය හා පාදඩකරණය
The clash at Kolonnawa on polling day between the government member Duminda Silva and the former member and presidential adviser Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra, and the tragedy that came of it, is a powerful event that gives a warning signal not only to the president and his party but to every political party in the country and to the society.
දේශපාලන සංස්කෘතිය ශීලාචාර කරගැනීම
If the tragedy that came out of the unseemly clash at Kolonnawa between a government member and a former government member is not taken as the warning signal it is, and the changes that would bring the country’s deeply uncivilised political culture to a civilised place are not made without delay, the price the country will pay may be enormous.
කොළඹ නගර සංවර්ධන විවාදය
Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s Colombo development programme is heavily criticised by the opposition, and at first sight what Ivan sees is a good change that can be felt: the city is cleaner than it has ever been, the rubbish heaps along the main roads have stopped, and not only Colombo 7 where the rich live but Borella and Wanathamulla where the poor live are clean, with the traffic much eased.
රටේ හොඳ නම කෙළසන මැර ප්රහාර
The thug attack on Dr N.J. Nonis, the registrar of the Sri Lanka Medical Council, gives the country a bad signal, and at first sight it looks like a by-product of the argument that had arisen over the private medical college.
කොළඹ නගර සභා මැතිවරණය හා වත්කම් බැරකම් නීතිය
The crafty and comical way the assets and liabilities law works at elections was shown again at the Colombo municipal poll. The law matters at an election because it gives voters the right to know the background of the candidates’ assets and liabilities — and they get that right only if candidates file their declarations with their nomination papers.
ජනතා විමුක්ති පෙරමුණේ අර්බුදය
Will the split that has opened inside the JVP hasten the decline it was already travelling towards, or will it renew the party and make it strong again? Six sections follow, on Kumar Gunaratnam, on correct Marxism, on the JVP’s social background, on commitment, on the absence of a forward vision, and on what should be done.