Why we need Electoral reforms
The present form of PR has resulted in an
inevitable struggle for preferential votes, and in-fighting among
candidates of the same party (intra-party rivalry), which has on
many occasions led to criminal violence and even murder.
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Lasantha lives...:
Happy Birthday
The 5th of April marks the 57th birth
anniversary of Lasantha, murdered six years ago on the 8th of
January. Mahinda Rajapaksa was defeated at the last Presidential
elections also on the 8th of January.
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Money laundering:
How the Law works...
It is good now and then to recall those wise and
thought provoking poems that we memorised during our school-going
days. Let me take you back to Lowada Sangarawa (Towards a better
world). Poem 37 says ‘As sweet as honey is evil - when you are doing
it. As scorching as fire is pain - when you suffer for it’.
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