MR in the middle as divisive tremors hit SLFP

President in strategy confab with party stalwarts :
UPFA junior partners push for split :
Gota seeks a role :
Dinner meetings of negotiators :

Last Thursday, January 21, President Maithripala Sirisena summoned all Ministers, State Ministers and Deputy Ministers representing the SLFP to his Paget Road residence for a special discussion on the present state of affairs in the party.

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The randy Sri Lankan politician

Cyril Wimalasurendre reporting in a daily on Monday, January 18, headlined his news item thus: ‘A pleasure trip to Singapore turns sour for PC member of Central Provincial Council’. He says the said PC Member was arrested and detained by the police following a complaint lodged by a woman that he groped her.

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A modern economy with people as its focus

A new era has dawned in Sri Lanka. Peace has been consolidated after a bloody 30-year civil conflict. The country’s 67-year- old democracy has been reinforced after a dramatic, peaceful and people-led political transition in January 2015.

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