July 29, 2004

Electricy price hike in the offing

According to the minister of finance the Ceylon Electricity board is one of the 5 most corrupt institutions in the country. The Ceylon Petrolium Corportaion is another. Due to mismanagement of the countrys hydropower resources and poor planning a significant...
Posted by raditha at 6:28 AM

July 28, 2004

The wrong signals

The very first time a government lead by the current president was elected to power the country's economy went into a freefall - not because of what they did (they did make plenty of mistakes) but because of what they...
Posted by raditha at 6:25 AM

July 26, 2004

Eight killed while police sleep.

That's right eight men said to be members of the Karuna faction of the LTTE have been killed at a safe house outside Colombo while the police have been sleeping. Apprently the news of the killing had been announced on...
Posted by raditha at 6:14 AM

July 25, 2004

Petrol Price Hike (Sorry We lied)

Exactly a month ago a senior minister of the UPFA government apeared on TV and assured the gullible public that Petrol and Diesel prices will not be raised. Now the price of petrol has seen an overnight rise of more...
Posted by raditha at 2:43 AM

July 24, 2004

Shame

July 23, 1984 is Sri Lanka's day of greatest shame. On that day began a cycle of violence against the minorities, the after effects of which can still be felt twenty years later. I was just a small kid growing...
Posted by raditha at 3:17 AM

July 23, 2004

No more meals for pennies

While half the country starves, members of parliament are entitled to have their meals for pennies. Breakfast is said to cost US$ 0.06 (Rs 6.00) while lunch is said to be US$ 0.15 (Rs 15.00). The meals in the MPs'...
Posted by raditha at 2:40 AM

July 22, 2004

Opposition to the bill mounts

Finally the country is beginning to recognize the evil masquerading in the form of monks in parliament. Around seventy percent of the country's population claim to be devout Buddhist. Yet they seem blissfully unware that the Lord Buddha preached tolerance...
Posted by raditha at 2:24 AM

July 21, 2004

A bill to take away your rights

It's official the much talked about bill to take away one of your fundamental rights is now before parliament. The 'anti conversion bill' as it is known as been presented in parliament by an ayatollah in yellow robes. It is...
Posted by raditha at 5:49 AM

July 20, 2004

Parliament meets and no one dies.

the last time the parliament of the banana republic of Sri Lanka met a monk was said to have been 'kicked in the balls'. Rather crude but it's difficult not to be crude when describing the actions of Sri Lanakn...
Posted by raditha at 5:32 AM

July 19, 2004

Police Brutality on TV

We have been hearing and reading of police brutality for a long time now Sri Lankans finally had a chance to see it on TV and the cameraman who caught it on film had been brutally asualted afterwards (by policemen)...
Posted by raditha at 2:27 AM

July 18, 2004

Back Paddling like mad

The UPFA which began to back paddle almost immidiately after coming to power, is now racing ahead (or backwards) in reverse gear. First was the peace process, after calling the norwegians all kinds of names that cannot be repeated, they...
Posted by raditha at 1:31 PM

July 17, 2004

Blind Faith

The followers of Buddhism in Sri Lankan are not practictioners of what the Lord Buddha preached. Before lord Buddha, people in south asia were said to be blindly worshipping rocks and trees believing they were gods. The buddhists of Sri...
Posted by raditha at 2:23 AM

July 16, 2004

Daily Mirror, two wrongs do not make a right

Th other day I wrote about how the Daily Mirror was made to eat humble pie over it's unashamed attack on Chaminda Vaas. A couple of weeks before that the same journal had a rather nasty rotten egg on it's...
Posted by raditha at 3:15 AM

July 15, 2004

The Sicilian

The Sicilian is my favourite opening in Chess but this book is not about chess but a novel - a novel by Mario Puzo. Of course it's an old book, I bought it long ago and had it sitting in...
Posted by raditha at 12:09 PM

July 14, 2004

Daily Mirror Made to eat humble pie

All Sri Lankan newspaper pick and choose whom they wish to attack. Sportsmen who have an off day are easy targets. So that is why the sports page of the Daily Mirror had one inch headlines accusing Chaminda Vaas; the...
Posted by raditha at 4:54 AM

July 13, 2004

Pathetic Daily Noise

The Daily Noise or to use it's given name the Daily News is a paper that is part of the state media mafia. Because of it's locatation by the once picturesque Beira lake, the organization is also known as the...
Posted by raditha at 2:17 AM

July 12, 2004

2/3 Lies

These two words would some up what the Sri Lankan politicans have been telling the voters through out the past year. Not just the party in power but all politican parties. They are not merely 'being economical with the truth'...
Posted by raditha at 1:56 AM

July 11, 2004

Framed!

Sri Lankan policemen don't know how to carry out an investigation - that's what the police chief was quated as having said in the sunday leader of last week. This week's edition is more alarming - it would seem that...
Posted by raditha at 3:22 PM

July 10, 2004

Another Collosal waste of money

It's just three months since we had an unscheduled parliamentary election at the cost of a 650 million rupees. That figure does not take into consideration the campaign costs, the loss of productivity or the loss of business due to...
Posted by raditha at 1:25 PM

July 9, 2004

The president says

The president in a speech has said that her party's candidates for the provincial council elections to be held on saturday are free of bribery and corruption. She went on to concede that there may be one or two candidates...
Posted by raditha at 1:34 AM

July 8, 2004

Tourism Bubble Burst

On March 14th, I wrote that the tourism boom continues but since then things have changed, mostly because of the aftermath of the election and yesterday's bomb can only make things worse. On march 13th, I quoted the daily mirror...
Posted by raditha at 1:55 PM

July 7, 2004

Bomb

On the April 2nd Sri Lankans voted against peace. Today came the first indication that they have got what they asked for, a bomb went off in Colombo after a gap of three years today. Unfortunately for the government foreign...
Posted by raditha at 4:03 PM

July 6, 2004

Anavilundava in the news

The ink hasn't even dried on my blog entry on Anavilundava yet and the name has cropped up again this time on prime time news. Unfortunately it's not because of the birds. reasons. Unfortunately a police inspector had lost his...
Posted by raditha at 2:39 PM

July 5, 2004

Opium

The poor of this country can choose from four different varieties of opium. The government is now planning to take away that right. Not the right to use but the right to choose. Two of the varieties sold here have...
Posted by raditha at 3:44 AM

July 4, 2004

Indepence and democracy.

It's easy to blame the politians for all that ails this country. That's not where the blame lies, the blame lies with the people who elected a bunch of crooks and thugs to office in the first place. Just before...
Posted by raditha at 11:11 AM

July 3, 2004

Anavilundava

Try prounouncing that. Sri Lankans have a tough enough time with it, so foreigners can be excused. Many of my countrymen haven't heard of the place and wouldn't give damn about it even if they had. Anavilundava is an old...
Posted by raditha at 11:21 AM

July 2, 2004

The return of the koel

The lady koel has returned. She made a renewed attak on the sparrows nest today. As with previous attacks this was sucessfully fended off, this time with they had a little help from a robin. It's remarkable how these smaller...
Posted by raditha at 3:28 AM

July 1, 2004

Confusion, Caos and Contradiction

During the days of President Premadasa, his speeches were always littered with the 3Cs or 3Rs. He claimed to work through Consultation, Consensus and Compromise while the then opposition accused him of doing the exact opposite. Later on he added...
Posted by raditha at 6:11 AM

 

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