by Wijith DeChickera | Jun 28, 2025 | DailyFT
Defending, sidelining, covering up human rights abuses has been a national pastime of sorts – for a plethora of reasons spanning the gamut from an exaggerated sense of patriotism overriding regional, global and universal values and norms; to paid hands determined to...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jun 18, 2025 | DailyFT
Discredited political ethics apart, the incumbent mayor has a large task ahead of her The flavour of the week in Colombo is indubitably NPP. While an NPP woman mayor may not be to everyone’s taste, no doubt Vraie Cally Balthazaar (VCB) is the toast of the rest of...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jun 14, 2025 | DailyFT
One major light at the end of a long dark tunnel is the growing number of judgments and indictments in the pipeline When troubles come, they come not single spies, but in battalions. Sri Lanka seems to have a sufficiency of such intruders these days. From...
by Wijith DeChickera | Jun 7, 2025 | DailyFT
To give credit where it is due – to the executive as well as the judicial branches of government – corrupt politicos at the upper echelon level are being handed stiff sentences in gaol for the first time since ‘good governance’ put the idea in...
by Wijith DeChickera | May 31, 2025 | DailyFT
If the agenda for sweeping reforms to nation, state, country, governmental ethos and socio-political culture have failed to materialise, the NPP has to hold itself accountable in the main When the NPP set its sights on rescuing the republic from the perils it...
